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A Word of Advice for Prospective Law School Students and 1Ls on Acceptance or Transfer Decisions: Ask the Admissions Dean "how much are you paying me to 'gain on-the-ground experience, and strengthen [my] lawyering skills' when I graduate?"

Posted on August 20, 2010
There was a time when law school students were more worried about the term of an employment offer than they were about whether any employment offer would be forthcoming. But those days are over. The economic downturn has produced a...

Reminder: Today's Law Librarian Conversations To Address Net Neutrality and the Death of the World Wide Web

Posted on August 20, 2010
Special guests for today's broadcast, which starts at 2:00 PM CDT, will be Professor Marvin Ammori, a telecommunications scholar and expert on net neutrality, and Professor Richard Dooling, author of "Rapture for the Geeks," "White Man's Grave," "Brainstorm," and New...

WestlawNext Advanced Search Glitch (?) ? Implied Boolean OR in "All of these terms" Phrase Searches

Posted on August 19, 2010
As law school librarians gear up for the new academic year after the recent roll-out of WestlawNext to the legal academy, some matters are being raised that weren't readily apparent during the brief trials TR Legal had offered earlier. Here's...

If p-Books are Heading Down the Path of Oblivion for Legal Titles, Royality Contracts for Tomorrow's Authors with Yet-To-Be-Determined Legal Vendors May Be the First Step in This Process

Posted on August 19, 2010
In my little county law library, one of my colleagues just bought a Nook and is delighted with in due in no small part to the availability of free and low-cost e-book titles and the gizmo's cost. Meanwhile I am...

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Mapping the Publication Routes for Law Student Articles

Posted on August 19, 2010
How to get your article published for a law prof audience borders on a cottage industry but I've never seen one for law school students until Submission of Law Student Articles for Publication [SSRN]. Written by Nancy Levit, Lawrence D....

Librarians Have an Image Problem

Posted on August 19, 2010
There is a debate going on at The Daily Dish, Andrew Sullivan's blog over at The Atlantic. One of the Sullivan's readers wrote this yesterday: All this at a time when they are struggling to even be relevant and find...

Results of Law Librarian Blog SIS Fees Poll

Posted on August 18, 2010
We asked law librarians to weigh in on two questions with regard to Special Interest Section (SIS) fees. 1. Who should have the authority to increase SIS fees? We had three answers to choose from and a total of 352...

Is Your Browser Ready for HTML5? A Follow-Up to Google's Galactic Inbox Game Promotion of Chrome on the 15th Anniversary of Internet Explorer

Posted on August 18, 2010
Googlers are encouraged to spend 20% of their work time to pursue an idea or concept and that's what Paul Truong, Creative Technologist, did when he created his Galactic Inbox game. See his Official Google Blog post. Gmail account holders...

Google Uber Alles

Posted on August 18, 2010
Brad McCarty published an interesting piece at The Next Web Google yesterday. He looked at the Google-Verizon net neutrality proposal and suggested that Google may be doing a bit of slight of hand with some of the language in the...

Guide for Law School WestlawNext and Lexis Users

Posted on August 17, 2010
Akron Law's Lynn Lenart, Assistant Law Librarian for Reference Services, and Richard Cohen, Associate Professor & Legal Writing Program Director, have created this user guide for WestlawNext and Lexis. Hat tip to Legal Writing Prof Blog. The user guide will...

The Mindset Divide: Distinguishing Between Traditional and Non-Traditional Legal Information (Professional Services) Vendors

Posted on August 17, 2010
Yesterday, I invited legal information vendors to comment on what LAW.GOV means to them. Someone in a private email -- not a vendor -- took exception to my characterizing TR Legal, Lexis, WK and BNA as "traditional," pointing to WestlawNext...

Another New Law School In The Offing?

Posted on August 17, 2010
This time, it's in Louisiana, and it's sponsored by Louisiana College in Pineville. There is some confusion about whether the school will be located in Pineville or Shreveport. Alexandria is another possible location. As of now, all of Louisiana's law...

An Open Invitation to Legal Publishers to Answer the Question "What Does LAW.GOV Mean to You?"

Posted on August 16, 2010
Last week, LLB published a selection of LAW.GOV videos featuring a wide range of participants including representatives from the legal publishing industry to illustrate the breadth and depth of interest and involvement in the LAW.GOV initiative. About LAW...

Coming Soon, The Interface of Classic Lexis Gets a Tweak

Posted on August 16, 2010
In case you missed the demo in Denver or the recent mass emailing, Classic Lexis is about to get an interface tweak. Nothing too radical to throw regular Lexis users into a state of confusion -- just a cleaner look,...

Short Takes On The News

Posted on August 16, 2010
- Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the UC Irvine Law School and noted constitutional law scholar, opined in the Los Angeles Times yesterday that conservative principles may prevent an appeal of the recent federal court decision overturning Proposition 8 in California...

Round-Up of Practitoner Blogs

Posted on August 15, 2010
Sacramento Bankruptcy Attorneys Blog http://www.sacramento-bankruptcy-attorneys-blog.com http://www.sacramento-bankruptcy-attorneys-blog.com/index.xml Provides insight on bankruptcy law news, opinions and legislation in California. Published by the Roy Law Offices...

Is Internet Use Rerouting Our Neural Pathways for a Short-Attention-Span Culture?

Posted on August 14, 2010
Ah ... don't know. I thought my short term memory loss and short attention span were products of being an aging and decrepit Baby Boomer law librarian. In his new book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our...

Friday Fun Part 2: iPhone Users Are Easy

Posted on August 13, 2010
According to OkCupid's study of smartphone users and their sexual history, iPhone users have had more sexual partners then BlackBerry users and Android users. From OkCupid's post: Hat tip to Kristi Lee, News Director of The Bob & Tom Show....

Friday Fun: What This 3 Year Old Wants from Her Library

Posted on August 13, 2010
"Hurry up and get cracking." [JH]

"It's Good to be Tom Glocer"

Posted on August 13, 2010
Just about no one at TR Legal I"ve talked with face to face, on the phone or by email has not said at least once, "It's good to be Tom." This borders on mantra status but, you know what, I...

Fundamental Themes from LAW.GOV Workshops: Public Infrastructure, Lowering Barriers to Innovation, and Providing Access and Developing Research Tools

Posted on August 13, 2010
An estimated 650 law librarians, law professors, government officials, judges and legal information industry representatives attended 15 LAW.GOV workshops held across the country earlier this year. The culmination was the recent release of LAW.GOV's 10 core principles...

How the Events of 9/11 Have Affected the Legal Landscape in New York State: Pace Law Review Issues a Call for Proposals

Posted on August 13, 2010
The Editors of the Pace Law Review invite proposals from scholars, researchers, practitioners, and professionals for contributions to the Law Review's third annual issue on New York law, slated for publication in Spring 2011. In the past, this book has...

AALL Vendor Liaison: The Hazelton Report

Posted on August 12, 2010
As you may know I am opposed to the vendor liaison position. But I try to be receptive to different ideas and so when AALL published Penny Hazelton's report I read it with great interest. The first thing that struck...

The Current State and Likely Future of the Commercial Legal Publishing Industry: The Effect of Open Access Innovation on the Industry's Core Market

Posted on August 12, 2010
An estimated 650 law librarians, law professors, government officials, judges and legal information industry representatives attended 15 LAW.GOV workshops held across the country earlier this year. The culmination was the recent release of LAW.GOV's 10 core principles...

What Is It Going to Cost Stanford Law to Become the No. 1 Law School in the Country?

Posted on August 11, 2010
Recently the dean of Stanford Law School, Larry Kramer, announced he intends to make Stanford Law the #1 law school in the country. While Dean Kramer did not explicitly refer to the US News Law School rankings that's the scorecard...

Could An Open Source Ecosystem Be Constructed for Government Distribution and Publication of Legal Materials?

Posted on August 11, 2010
An estimated 650 law librarians, law professors, government officials, judges and legal information industry representatives attended 15 LAW.GOV workshops held across the country earlier this year. The culmination was the recent release of LAW.GOV's 10 core principles...

In the Federal Cloud: Google Apps for Government Get FISMA OK

Posted on August 11, 2010
From the Official Google Blog post: "We?re also pleased to announce that Google Apps is the first suite of cloud computing messaging and collaboration applications to receive Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification and accreditation from the U...

More Reaction to Google-Verizon and Net Neutrality

Posted on August 11, 2010
Fortune Magazine explains why wireless should be exempt from net neutrality rules. The Register, normally a snarky publication, produces two in depth articles explaining how the Internet infrastructure changes over the last 3 years motivates Google's policy changes,see How neutrality...

SkyRiver Tech and Innovative Interfaces Seeks Access to "OCLC's Unlawfully Acquired Database" in Unfair Competition Complaint

Posted on August 10, 2010
In case you missed it and I certainly did until yesterday when I received this emailed statement from OCLC, SkyRiver Technology Solutions and Innovative Interfaces, Inc. filed suit against OCLC, alleging anticompetitive practices in the US District Court for the...

Who Owns the Law?

Posted on August 10, 2010
An estimated 650 law librarians, law professors, government officials, judges and legal information industry representatives attended 15 LAW.GOV workshops held across the country earlier this year. The culmination was the recent release of LAW.GOV's 10 core principles...

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