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10 Non-Librarian Blogs Librarians Should Read in 2008

Posted on February 15, 2008
LISNews has followed up its 10 Librarian Blogs To Read in 2008 [our post] with a great list of 10 Non-Librarian Blogs Librarians Should Read in 2008. The blogs were selected from LISNews reader recommendations. Here's the list: Boing Boing...

Librarians, Who Would Make the Best President?

Posted on February 15, 2008
Opinion Polls & Market Research

Zelinsky on the Defined Contribution Society

Posted on February 14, 2008
This is an extraordinarily important, very well-written and thoroughly researched book. It is probably also the most insightful pension book of the decade. -- Jonathan Barry Forman, Alfred P. Murrah Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma College of Law The...

Professional Reading: Should Some Forms of Legislative History Be Excluded During Judicial Review?

Posted on February 14, 2008
In The Use of Committee Reports in Statutory Interpretation: A Suggested Framework for the Federal Judiciary, 60 Ark. L. Rev. 687-706 (2007) [Westlaw], Michael L. Culotta argues that (1) judges should look to legislative history when interpreting ambiguous statutory construction,...

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Citizen Media Law Project Launches Legal Guide

Posted on February 14, 2008
Here's the Citizen Media Law Project's announcement about its Legal Guide project. While a work-in-progress, the Legal Guide already provides useful information in its fairly detailed articles. You can browse the Legal Guide section-by-section or search it...

New and Forthcoming ABA Titles

Posted on February 14, 2008
Essential Resources: Model Business Corporation Act 2007 including Official Text with Official Comments, Amendments, and Statutory Cross-References Model Business Corporation Act, Annotated 4th Ed (4 volumes) America Votes! A Guide to Modern Election Law and Voting Rights edited by Benjamin...

Stanford?s Computer Science Department's Role in Search Technology

Posted on February 14, 2008
Some interesting snippets of search history can be found in Richard Brandt's 2004 Stanford Manazine article, Net Assets: How Stanford's computer science department changed the way we get information. The business plan for Yahoo! received a D-minus grade because the...

Just Released Virtue Jurisprudence

Posted on February 13, 2008
Virtue Jurisprudence Editors and Contributors: Colin Farrelly and Lawrence Solum List Price: $74.95 Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (February 5, 2008) ISBN-10: 0230552897 ISBN-13: 978-0230552890 Available From: Amazon | Palgrave Macmillan (Sample Chapter Available) Description: In moral theory, virtue...

CEA's Annual Economic Report Released

Posted on February 13, 2008
From the Report's Overview: The U.S. economy retains a solid foundation, even as it faces challenges ahead. Toward the end of 2007, there were increasingly mixed economic indicators (see Chapters 1 and 2). Economic growth is expected to continue in...

President Signs the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008

Posted on February 13, 2008
President Bush signed the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 (H.R. 5140) today. The Act provides a rebate to individual tax filers who satisfy specific income requirements and special depreciation allowances to businesses. In addition, the act would raise the loan...

Harvard Faculty Adopts Open Access Requirement

Posted on February 13, 2008
The Chronicle of Higher Education is reporting that Harvard University?s Faculty of Arts and Sciences adopted a policy that requires faculty members to allow the university to make their scholarly articles available free online. I believe this is a first...

Professional Reading: Review of Metric Services for Digital Libraries and Repositories

Posted on February 13, 2008
Chris Armbruster's (Research Associate, Max Planck Digital Library and Executive Director, Research Network 1989) Access, Usage and Citation Metrics: What Function for Digital Libraries and Repositories in Research Evaluation? is available from SSRN. Here's the abstract for this very interesting...

The Frankenstein of Book Digitalization Projects, Google Books

Posted on February 13, 2008
1,000,000th Book Scanned On Feb. 2, 2008, the University of Michigan Library digitized its one millionth book, most of which was done as part of the Library's deal with Google. See Paul Courant's, Dean of Libraries, blog post and the...

New Widgets Available for PreCYdent

Posted on February 13, 2008
PreCYdent's Tom Smith (San Diego) reports that his PreCYdent legal research service now provides two search engine widgets, one adding the service's search box to your FireFox or IE7 browser and another for adding it to your website or blog....

How People Use the Internet, Libraries, and Government Agencies When They Need Help

Posted on February 12, 2008
In a national phone survey, respondents were asked by Pew/Interent whether they had encountered 10 possible problems in the previous two years, all of which had a potential connection to the government or government-provided information. Those who had dealt with...

Professional Reading: Apple, IBM and Their Business Models

Posted on February 12, 2008
Two recent papers available from SSRN: Case Study of Apple, Inc.: How Apple Executes its Business Model to Control Digital Content through Legal and Technological Means, by Margo E.K. Reder (Boston College): This article explores how Apple's business model makes...

Survey on AALL's Draft Guidelines for Evaluating a Legal Website Closes Feb. 19th

Posted on February 12, 2008
AALL's Access to Electronic Legal Information Committee would like some input of their draft Guidelines for Evaluating a Legal Website. The guidelines are designed for people without extensive legal research experiences, such as members of the general public, scholars in...

Should You Be Using DSpace?

Posted on February 12, 2008
DSpace is a centralized, electronic repository for the massive amounts of intellectual property created by research institutions. It can be used for a variety of digital archiving needs -- from institutional repositories to learning object repositories or electronic records management,...

Call for Contributions: 2008 RIPS-SIS Teach-In Kit (Deadline: Friday, February 22, 2008)

Posted on February 12, 2008
The RIPS Teach-In Kit is back! Your kit contributions are currently being accepted for the 15th Annual RIPS-SIS Teach-In Kit. The RIPS sponsored National Legal Research Teach-In campaign has provided the popular Teach-In Resource Kit for many years as a...

Boxer's Anthology of Blogs

Posted on February 12, 2008
Sarah Boxer, formerly a critic and reporter at The New York Times and author of Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web, an anthology to be published in February, has published a jolly good little article in The New York...

Surveying the Digital Future

Posted on February 11, 2008
New report from the Center for the Digital Future, USC Annenberg School: "The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School is pleased to present the results of the seventh year of our project, ?Surveying the Digital Future.?...

Professional Reading: Blinking on the Bench: How Judges Decide Cases

Posted on February 11, 2008
Chris Guthrie, Jeffrey Rachlinski, and Andrew J Wistrich's Blinking on the Bench: How Judges Decide Cases is now availabe from SSRN. Here's the abstract: "How do judges judge? Do they apply law to facts in a mechanical and deliberative way,...

Empirical Analysis of Law School Teaching Methods, Time to Bring in the Pros

Posted on February 11, 2008
Andrea A. Curcio, Gregory Todd Jones, Tanya M. Washington, Law School and Bar Examination Performance: Developing an Empirical Model to Test Whether Required Writing Exercises or Other Changes in Large-Section Law Class Teaching Methodologies Result in Improved Exam Performance, 57...

Crawford's Academic Library Blogs: 231 Examples

Posted on February 11, 2008
A list of IHEs covered in Crawford's Academic Library Blogs: 231 Examples and sample entries are available in the February 2008 issue of Cites & Insights [PDF and HTML]. [JH] Academic Library Blogs: 231 Examples Walt Crawford 289 pages, 2008...

The Good Occupation

Posted on February 11, 2008
J. Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law School) and Yoshiro Miwa (Tokyo) have made their article, The Good Occupation, available on NELLCO. Here's the abstract: Why did U.S. leaders ever think they could transform Iraq? Why did anyone think he or she...

More Trouble at the American Justice School of Law

Posted on February 11, 2008
The ABA Journal is reporting that five professors at the American Justice School of Law in Paducah, Ky.?about one-fourth of the faculty?resigned effective Friday, saying they won?t come back until the dean of the for-profit school submits his resignation...

Much Ado About Something: The Democrats' Outrageously Undemocratic Superdelegate Rule

Posted on February 10, 2008
9. UNPLEDGED AND PLEDGED PARTY LEADERS AND ELECTED OFFICIAL DELEGATES A. The procedure to be used for certifying unpledged party leader and elected official delegates is as follows: Not later than March 1, 2008, the Secretary of the Democratic National...

The Patterns in Violence and Casualties in Iraq 2007: The Need for Strategic Patience

Posted on February 10, 2008
New report from the Center for Strategic & International Studies: "The attached report summarizes the trends in Iraqi violence and casualties in graphics and map form. It reflects major progress during the course of 2007. At the same time, it...

How the World Rates Women as Leaders

Posted on February 09, 2008
New report from the Pew Global Attitudes Project: "On Dec.10, 2007 Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will become Argentina's first female president, joining 11 other female prime ministers and presidents. But a Pew Global Attitudes survey finds world publics hold mixed...

How Well Are American Students Learning?

Posted on February 09, 2008
From the Brown Center on Education Policy, The Brookings Institution: "This is the seventh edition of the Brown Center Report on American Education. As in the past, the report consists of three sections. The first section examines the latest test...

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