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Moscow Prosecutors Find South Park Offensive

Posted on September 09, 2008
The Times of London is reporting that Moscow prosecutors want to kill South Park because the show ?bore signs of extremist activity.? The one-time officially atheist government found South Park's "Mr Hankey?s Christmas Classics" episode featuring Satan, Adolf Hitler and...

Google to Digitize Newspaper Archives

Posted on September 09, 2008
Partnering with microfilming giants ProQuest and Heritage, Google News Archive is digitizing millions of pages of news archives to make full scans of newspapers available online. Not much online yet but to search what's available, go to the Google News...

First Security Vulnerabilities in Google's Chrome Identified

Posted on September 09, 2008
According to Google Analytics, Chrome is showing a browser share of 6% or higher on some websites. Impressive but BetaNews is reporting on proof-of-concept security holes found in the new browser at How dangerous are the first Google Chrome vulnerabilities?...

VP Palin Plans to Drill for Oil Under the Library of Congress

Posted on September 08, 2008
A flash forward to January 21, 2009 if the McCain-Palin ticket wins the election from the editors of Shelf Awareness: In her first official act, Vice President Sarah Palin has asked for the resignation of Librarian of Congress James H....

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Are Librarians Training Lawyers and Law Students in the Use of Alternatives to LexisNexis and Westlaw

Posted on September 08, 2008
According to the ABA?s 2008 Legal Technology Survey Report, 96% of private sector lawyers perform legal research online, up from 79% in 2003. More interesting, much more interesting, is that the number of lawyers performing free online legal research has...

Unfinished Business: September Legislative Agenda for Congress

Posted on September 08, 2008
Congress gets back to business today, aiming to finish up this year's legislative work in less than 30 days unless a lame-duck session is convened after the elections. The House?s targeted adjournment date is September 26. This date remains the...

Federal Government Takes Over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Posted on September 08, 2008
While most Americans, including US equity traders, were watching football yesterday, the Treasury Department announced the takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a move to bail out and recapitalize the troubled mortgage giants. The U.S. Treasury has taken...

Minimal Interaction Between American Public and University Libraries Found in Website Link Analysis

Posted on September 08, 2008
Rong Tang and Mike Thelwall's A Hyperlink Analysis of U.S. Public and Academic Libraries' Web Sites, 78 Library Quarterly 419, (October 2008) [PDF,subscription required] reports on patterns of links from and to the websites of 100 U.S. academic and public...

Just Say "No" to the Socratic Method

Posted on September 08, 2008
The academic year is underway. That means it time for law profs to reflect on teaching methods (and time for LLB's annual anti-Socratic Method post). Using the so-called Socratic Method in small seminar classes in law school is fine but...

Strategic Leadership: Framework for a 21st Century National Security Strategy

Posted on September 07, 2008
"The next president of the United States must forge a new national security strategy in a world marked by enormous tumult and change and at a time when America?s international standing and strategic position are at an historic nadir" according...

Nation's 16 Intelligence Agencies to Use A-Space

Posted on September 07, 2008
A-Space is a classified social networking site for sharing intel about al Qaeda and other issues. It will be officially launched for the U.S. intelligence community September 22. "It's every bit Facebook and YouTube for spies, but it's much, much...

Using CAPTCHA to Digitize Books

Posted on September 06, 2008
Luis von Ahn, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, has come up with an idea to aid in the digitization process of books. Modifying a commonly used Web security system called CAPTCHA (you type a sequence of...

DOJ Efforts to Combat Cyber Crime

Posted on September 06, 2008
A new fact sheet from the DOJ?s Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section discusses the recent prosecution of the various forms of identity theft including ?skimming operations; high-tech phishing schemes; and schemes to use others? online brokerage accounts to manipulate...

Save the Date: October 5th for Roy Mersky Tribute in Austin

Posted on September 05, 2008
The University of Texas Law School will host a tribute to Roy Mersky on Sunday, October 5, 2008, at 1 p.m. in the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center on the UT Campus. A reception will follow. If you have questions, please contact...

Librarians Against Palin

Posted on September 05, 2008
Personally I believe the Sarah Palin-Public Library matter is a sideshow but many do not. An unnamed public librarian recently launched the Librarians Against Palin blog. Someone else (a librarian?) is selling "Librarians Against Palin" bumper stickers...

Friday Fun: On Catalogs, Hard Copy (really hard copy) Ones, Not OPACs

Posted on September 05, 2008
Is the husband abuse or does it explain why wives like printed catalogs so much. This is why I don't go shopping with my wife! Hat tip to Lisa Wernke (Cincinnati). [JH]

Multitasking Switchtasking is Counterproductive

Posted on September 05, 2008
Apparently Dave Crenshaw's mission is to make multitasking culturally unacceptable behavior in the workplace. In his new book, The Myth of Multitasking: How "Doing It All" Gets Nothing Done (Jossey-Bass, August 18, 2008), he argues that multitasking doesn't boost productivity...

Teaching Digital Literacy Using Norwegian Online Course

Posted on September 05, 2008
Search & Write is an online course which aims to help students with research and writing. It's goal is to help students become more information literate by combining both the searching and writing process students go through. "Both searching for...

What Academic Law Libraries Do To Welcome in the New Academic Year

Posted on September 05, 2008
That's the topic for the first hour of today's The Law Librarian, Internet Radio Talk Show (2:00 pm Central) hosted by Richard Leiter and Brian Striman on BlogTalkRadio. The second hour will be a review of the past month's tech...

TinEye Image Search Engine

Posted on September 05, 2008
Developed by Idee, the TinEye search engine allows users to search by uploading a picture rather than typing in a keyword. The SE then conducts a pixel by pixel search across the Internet, flagging all instances of that image even...

Congratulations to Sabrina Pacifici

Posted on September 04, 2008
Sabrina Pacifici Receives the 2008 SLA/J. J. Keller Innovations in Technology Award. A belated congratulations to Sabrina Pacifici, editor and publisher of LLRX and beSpacific, who was named this year's recipient of the SLA/J. J. Keller Innovations in Technology Award...

Do You Want to Use Chrome?

Posted on September 04, 2008
One reason not to use Chrome has been eliminated. PC World is reporting that Google will delete one section of the end-user licensing agreement, noted in LLB's earlier post Search is Google, Google Is Search, that gave the Company "a...

Teaching Resources for HeinOnline

Posted on September 04, 2008
For law librarians, HeinOnline is pretty easy to use. Perhaps, not so easy for law students and attorneys. As all law library collections move to free up shelf space by turning to HeinOnline as their electronic alternative, training students and...

The Case for Public Access to Military Dockets

Posted on September 04, 2008
A new Tully Center for Free Speech research report shows that the public often can?t find out what?s happening in the military justice system. The Tully Center found that schedules for courts-martials was not available at 37% of the military...

Crowdsourcing, the Power of Many to Achieve Better Results than the Few

Posted on September 04, 2008
Crowdsourcing originated from open source computer programmers who showed that a community of like-minded peers could create better applicatons than Microsoft. An unintended consequence of market domination, crowdsourceing is now viewed as the application of the open-source idea to any...

Public.Resource Launches Code City

Posted on September 03, 2008
Public.Resource.org has launched Code City containing state and city administrative codes. Most are safety, building and energy codes. For a little humor, check out the ReadMe file. [JH]

Are the Days of Mainstream Legal Journalism Behind Us?

Posted on September 03, 2008
According to Sarah Kellogg's Washington Lawyer article, "The days are waning for in-depth coverage of the courts by the mainstream news media. What has replaced it is an intriguing if confusing mix of law-related Web sites, publications, podcasts, and blogs,...

Search is Google, Google Is Search: The Corporate SE Giant Will Be Ten Years Old on Sunday, September 7th

Posted on September 03, 2008
From Garage to Corporate Campus. "It is conceivable that future historians will regard the first day of Google Inc on September 7 1998 ... as the true dawn of the 21st century," writes David Smith in Google, 10 years in:...

Help Shape the Future of the Federal Depository Library Program

Posted on September 03, 2008
GPO is developing a strategic plan for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) that looks forward 10-15 years and is seeking input for this planning process. You can review the information provided and add your comments about the future direction...

SEC Guidance on Use of Company Websites

Posted on September 03, 2008
Recently the SEC issued guidance corporate electronic communications, including the use of ?blogs? and ?electronic forums?. Jim Hamilton (Jim Hamilton?s World of Securities Regulation) has posted a white paper on the topic entitled ?SEC Guidance on Use of Company Websites?...

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