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Getting From Point A to Point B: Success in Law School and Legal Practice

Posted on August 27, 2008
Regular readers of this blog will know that I share Leah Christensen's desire to see the end of the legal academy's institutional arrogance towards skills instruction come sooner rather than later but I don't think her recent article, The Power...

Revised Federal Depository Libraries Designation Handbook Now Online

Posted on August 27, 2008
GPO has released a revised online version of the Designation Handbook for Federal Depository Libraries. This revised version includes a new section on the designation of libraries as regional depositories. It also includes sections that a library or designator can...

LiveNote Launches West Case Notebook Software

Posted on August 27, 2008
Need to keep all case-related documents in one place? Built on the LiveNote platform, Case Notebook is integrated with Westlaw so that any Westlaw research can be moved into a litigation file within Case Notebook. Check out West's product announcement...

Call for a Volunteer to Join Librarians Without Borders Board of Directors

Posted on August 27, 2008
Librarians Without Borders (LWB) is looking for an individual to serve as a member on LWB's Board of Directors. LWB is looking specifically for someone with experience in developing and monitoring the strategic plan, overseeing financial planning, and managing the...

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Good Times at the Library or Why Libraries Are the New Amusement Parks This Summer

Posted on August 27, 2008
As gas and food prices continue to climb, many families are turning to the library this summer for a fun and free alternative to heavy spending. Bill Whitaker (CBS News) reports on this phenomena in his Good Times at the...

Yale, the Best Law School for Hands-On Training

Posted on August 27, 2008
You got to be kidding! But that's what happens when you just rank law schools by clinical opportunities like the National Jurist did in its September 2008 (at page 26). [JH]

29 Percent of Librarians Dissatisfied with Non-Librarian Decisions, Very Dissatisfied

Posted on August 27, 2008
29% of the respondents to LLB's recent poll "strongly disagree" with the statement "I am satisfied with management's recent decisions regarding my library" (where management decisions means decisions that impact library operations and budgets made by executives and administrators who...

ALA Librarian Salary Survey 2008

Posted on August 26, 2008
Mean librarian salary increaded 2 percent to $58,960 in 2008, according to the ALA-APA Salary Survey: Librarian - Public and Academic. Published by the American Library Association-Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA) in cooperation with the ALA Office for Research and Statistics,...

New ABA Titles

Posted on August 26, 2008
Recently published titles from the ABA include the following. Details below the fold. [JH] Analyzing Law's Reach: Empirical Research on Law and Society (compilation by the American Bar Foundation) Distance Learning and Copyright: A Guide to Legal Issues by Steven...

Call for Chapter Proposals for New Book on Collaborative Information Literacy Assessments

Posted on August 26, 2008
In his email to me, Tom Mackey, Associate Dean at the Center for Distance Learning, Empire State College, SUNY, said that he and his co-editor, Trudi Jacobson, Head of User Education Programs, University Libraries at the University at Albany, SUNY,...

Westlaw's New Election Law Feature

Posted on August 26, 2008
A new Elections tab has been added to Westlaw. Free during the year's election season, users can customize their Westlaw interface to access information like voter identification, campaign financing laws, and election-related news. "Election-2008"? content within the Elections tab provides...

The Library Diaries Ends Chapter in Author's Library Career

Posted on August 26, 2008
"Open this book and you?ll meet the naked patron, the greedy, unenlightened patrons, destination hell, the masturbator, horny old men, Mr. Three Hats, and a menagerie of other characters you never dreamt were housed at your public library." That's from...

Live Streams to Follow the Democratic and Republican National Conventions

Posted on August 26, 2008
Check out the live streams listed in Mashable's 20 Tools to Follow the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. [JH]

Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Watcha Goina Do?

Posted on August 26, 2008
In this case it would more appropriate to say bad girl but a Wisconsin woman, Heidi Dalibor, was arrested and booked for failure to pay library fines (and failure to appear in court when summonsed on the charges). The grand...

Just Released, Palfey and Gasser's Born Digital

Posted on August 25, 2008
All hell is about to break loose -- the first generation of "digital natives" is coming of age! That's not the message in John Palfrey and Urs Gasser's Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives (Basic Books, 2008)...

PCAOB Withstands Constitutional Challenge

Posted on August 25, 2008
So ruled the DC Circuit in Free Enterprise Fund v. PCAOB (D.C. Cir. Aug. 22, 2008). By a 2-1 decision, the D.C. Circuit held that Title I of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which created the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB),...

GlobaLex Legal Research Guides, August 2008

Posted on August 25, 2008
GlobaLex has published several updated research guides this month: International Criminal Courts for the Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone: A Guide to Online and Print Resources by Amy Burchfield The Legal System and Research of the Democratic Republic of...

ILTA 2008 Is Underway

Posted on August 25, 2008
The 31st annual educational conference of the International Legal Technology Association is under way. The theme of the four day conference, Global Perspective, Peer Advantage, "conveys that attendees, regardless of size or location, can gain something from adopting a global...

I Am - The Library

Posted on August 25, 2008
Howard Dean will call the Democratic National Convention to order today in Denver at 3:00 PM (local). Let the snoring begin, or check out one interesting by-product of the convention. Set in and around the Denver Central Library a few...

Extend Firefox 3 Contest Winners Offer Great Add-Ons for Online Researchers

Posted on August 25, 2008
Mozilla Labs has announced the winners of its Extend Firefox 3. The three grand prize winners in the Best New Add-On go to (1) an open source tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping called Pencil; (2) Tagmarks, a one-click...

State Supreme Court Bans Sitting Justice From Filing His Dissent

Posted on August 25, 2008
The Mississippi Supreme Court ordered one of its sitting justices not to publish his dissent with the Court's majority decision. Apparently the Court stopped its court clerk from filing Justice Oliver Diaz's opinion into the record. Here's a copy. It...

UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy

Posted on August 24, 2008
By its landmark resolution 60/288 of 8 September 2006, the General Assembly adopted the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, which, for the first time, united all 192 Member States behind a common strategic framework. A new report UN Global Counter-Terrorism...

A Look at Terrorist Behavior: How They Prepare, Where They Strike

Posted on August 24, 2008
New report from the National Institute of Justice: "Although we know a great deal about the behavior of traditional criminals, little information has been available about terrorists. Are they much different from conventional criminals, who tend to commit their crimes...

Two New Human Rights Reports

Posted on August 23, 2008
From the UN Pulse:Two UN human rights committees' reports have been issued. The report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child has also been issued (A/63/41). This report also summarizes the meetings of the committee and includes the...

An Economic Strategy for Investing in America's Infrastructure

Posted on August 23, 2008
New report from the Brookings Institution: "Infrastructure investment has received more attention in recent years because of increased delays from road and air congestion, high-profile infrastructure failures, and rising concerns about energy security and climate change...

Friday Fun: Fox Asks Homer Simpson to Search YouTube for Copyright Infringements

Posted on August 22, 2008
OK, it's a Homer impersonator but note the searches. Either Homer gets distracted or he's dead-on about the Fox Network's programming. [JH]

Nyberg and Boast's Subject Compilations of State Laws Now on HeinOnline

Posted on August 22, 2008
Subscription options, quick reference guide and video demonstration below:

International Arrests of Citizen Bloggers More Than Triple

Posted on August 22, 2008
The number of citizen bloggers jailed in 2007 has drastically risen from 2006, according to researchers at the University of Washington. "Last year, 2007, was a record year for blogger arrests, with three times as many as in 2006. Egypt,...

Plagiarism is Plagiarism or Why Readily Available Online Information Changes Nothing

Posted on August 22, 2008
With the vast amount of information available online, the case method (copy and steal everything) is a temptation that many students cannot resist. In a recent Washington Post article An Education in the Dangers of Online Research, Susan Kinzie examines...

Loan Forgiveness Program for Prosecutors and Public Defenders

Posted on August 22, 2008
President Bush signed into law the Higher Education Opportunity Act, H.R.4137, P.L. 110-315, last week. [Thomas Resources] Along with making higher education more accessible and affordable, the bill amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42...

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