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Library Volunteers Wanted for GPO Web Harvesting Demonstration Project

Posted on June 19, 2008
From the annoucement: The Federal depository library community has expressed interest in participating in GPO's efforts to process Web harvested publications. In order to determine how best to utilize the depository libraries offer of assistance, GPO will undertake a demonstration...

Career Alternatives for Attorneys

Posted on June 19, 2008
Above the Law is publishing a series of posts on career alternatives for attorneys including this one on law librarianship. [JH]

Professional Reading: Government Data and the Invisible Hand

Posted on June 18, 2008
What should be the primary online publishing responsibility of the federal government? In Government Data and the Invisible Hand (SSRN), David Robinson, Harlan Yu, William Zeller and Edward Felten (all with the Princton University's Center for Information Technology Policy) argue...

New Law Titles from OUP

Posted on June 18, 2008
Details below the fold. [JH] The New Corporate Governance in Theory and Practice by Stephen Bainbridge The Business of Intellectual Property by Christopher M. Arena and Eduardo M. Carreras Socially Responsible Investment Law Regulating the Unseen Polluters by Benjamin J...

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State Handbook of Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Indicators 2008

Posted on June 18, 2008
New report from the AARP's Public Policy Institute: "As state and local economic conditions and demographic patterns change, policymakers may consider adjusting their policies on taxes and spending programs. These adjustments become more difficult when economic and demographic changes depart...

Tenure Bibliography for the Legal Academy's Second Class Citizens

Posted on June 18, 2008
At many law schools, legal writing instructors belong to that caste know as contract employees. The same is true for many other skills-oriented instructors such as clinicians. With the hue-and-cry getting ever louder over the failure of law schools to...

Opening: Reference Librarian, University of Pennsyvlania Law School Library

Posted on June 18, 2008
Biddle Law Library is searching for a talented Reference Librarian to join its Public Services team in providing outstanding reference, research, and teaching support at a law school that prides itself on cross-disciplinary studies. This is a new position reflecting...

Web Visions from the Past

Posted on June 18, 2008
Really interesting article in today's NYT about Belgian librarian Paul Otlet and his 1934 vision for something like the Internet. In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or ?electric telescopes,? as he called them) that...

Impact of E-discovery on Legal Support Staffing

Posted on June 18, 2008
E-discovery is not just raising havoc with trial strategies, risk management, and litigation budgets, it?s also uprooting traditional support staff job descriptions in law firms and corporate legal departments. Legal Technology News Editor Monica Bay explores the ramifications in Can...

Research Library International Benchmarks

Posted on June 17, 2008
Primary Research Group has published Research Library International Benchmarks (ISBN: 1-57440-101-3; Price: $95.00). Based on a survey of 45 major research libraries from the U.S., Australia, Canada, Spain, the U.K., Japan and elsewhere, the 200-page report provides data on trends...

Professional Reading: What Federal Judges Really Think about the Way Lawyers Write

Posted on June 17, 2008
Kristen Robbins-Tiscione, Legal Research and Writing Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, has deposited The Inside Scoop: What Federal Judges Really Think About the Way Lawyers Write in SSRN. Here's the abstract: A recent survey indicates that what troubles federal judges...

Internet Use During the 2008 Presidential Primary Campaigns

Posted on June 17, 2008
A recent poll conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project reveals an estimated ?46% of all Americans have used the Internet, email or cell phone text messaging to get news about the campaign, share their views and mobilize...

Compilation of International Documents on the Rights of Older Persons

Posted on June 17, 2008
The Rights of Older Persons Collection of International Documents Edited by Israel Doron & Kate Mewhinney Order from the International Federation on Ageing Description: Over the past few decades, many diverse documents concerning the rights and status of the aged...

Opening: Director of Public Services, IIT/Chicago-Kent

Posted on June 17, 2008
The Illinois Institute of Technology Downtown Campus Library (which serves Chicago-Kent College of Law, Stuart School of Business, and other graduate programs at the IIT Downtown Campus) is seeking a Director of Public Services. Description: Under the general direction of...

Sally Holterhoff Appointed to Depository Library Council

Posted on June 17, 2008
Public Printer Robert C. Tapella named five new DLC members for the October 1, 2008 - September 30, 2011 term including AALL immediate past president and 1987-90 DLC member, Sally Holterhoff, Associate Professor of Law Librarianship and Government Information/Reference Librarian...

Forbes on the People's Online Law Library

Posted on June 16, 2008
Forbe's goes a wee bit too far in characterizing Fastcase, PreCydent, Public.Resource.org and Collexis Holdings' Casemaker as "a fundamental break from the way legal research has been performed since the mid-1700s, when Sir William Blackstone revolutionized the practice of law...

Survey Finds Internet Is Primary Source Citizens Use to Monitor and Communicate with Congress

Posted on June 16, 2008
The Congressional Management Foundation released the report, Communicating with Congress: How the Internet Has Changed Citizen Engagement, in which they reported on a survey of over 10,000 citizens about their interactions and communications with member of Congress...

A Quick Look at UNdata

Posted on June 16, 2008
UNdata is a new search service produced by the United Nations Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Users can search and download statistical information and searchable datasets of the UN System. List of Data Sources. The...

Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book

Posted on June 16, 2008
Compiled by Office of the Director of National Intelligence in 2007, The Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book (688 pages) can now be downloaded in PDF. Hat tip to BeSpacific. Table of Contents below the fold. [JH]

Opening: Reference Librarian, State of Oregon Law Library

Posted on June 16, 2008
The State of Oregon Law Library has an opening for a Reference Librarian. We will review applications as received, but we do not expect to fill the position until after the AALL Annual Meeting in Portland, July 12--15, 2008. We...

How we read online

Posted on June 16, 2008
This Slate Article gives a look into reading habits of web users. This can provide some tips that may help all of us who are in charge of a law library's web content create and maintain a more user friendly...

SLA's Annual Conference Is Underway

Posted on June 16, 2008
SLA's Annual Conference in Seattle started on June 15 and continues to June 18. You can follow developments at the SLA Blog, download contributed papers and search for handouts on the Conference website. [JH]

On Archiving Blogs

Posted on June 16, 2008
On Information Wants To Be Free, Meredith Farkas asks, "is anyone else thinking about [academic libraries] archiving student and faculty blog posts?" Follow the comment trail for answers. [JH]

Condoleezza Rice on Rethinking the National Interest

Posted on June 15, 2008
As Condoleezza Rice prepares to return to teaching, presumably at Stanford, she reflects on the lessons of the past eight years in Rethinking the National Interest: American Realism for a New World, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2008 issue. A couple of...

CRS Reports on National Security

Posted on June 15, 2008
New CRS Reports via the Federation of American Scientists: Organizing the U.S. Government for National Security: Overview of the Interagency Reform Debates The purpose of this report, which will be updated as events warrant, is to help frame the emerging...

FBI's Involvement in Detainee Interrogations

Posted on June 15, 2008
Review of the FBI's Involvement in and Observations of Detainee Interrogations in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Special Report (pdf) from the US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General: "The focus of our review was whether FBI agents...

How It Does It: The RIAA Explains How It Catches Alleged Music Pirates

Posted on June 14, 2008
Interesting article from the Chronicle: "To catch college students trading copyrighted songs online, the Recording Industry Association of America uses the same file-sharing software that online pirates love, an RIAA representative told The Chronicle at the organization's offices during a...

Fact Sheet: Foreign Terrorist Organizations

Posted on June 14, 2008
New Fact Sheet from the U.S. Department of State: "Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) are foreign organizations that are designated by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended. FTO designations...

Friday Fun: The Importence of Proofreading

Posted on June 13, 2008
Hat tip to Tom Franken (Denver). On a more serious note, Wanda Temm, Allen K. Rostron and Nancy Levit (all UNKC) recently posted Training Independent Learners: Student Self-Editing Checklist for Law School Papers, Notes and Comments in SSRN. [JH]

Professional Reading: Blomquist's Thinking About Law and Creativity

Posted on June 13, 2008
Robert F. Blomquist's (Professor of Law/Swygert Research Fellow, Valparaiso) Thinking About Law and Creativity: On the 100 Most Creative Moments in American Law [download from SSRN or ABA Journal] is a very interesting article as long as you do not...

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