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Are universities wasting their time communicating to students via Twitter?

Posted on August 12, 2009
That's one interpretation of a new Nielsen survey finding that people under the age of 25, generally speaking, don't Tweet. Instead, the Twitter hype is being driven by an older demographic. One explanation is that teens and young adults care...

Two Videos from the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research

Posted on August 11, 2009
The Media Committee of the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research has released two videos demonstrating the importance of legal research and writing instruction in legal education. You can view then on Legal Writing Prof Blog: Benefits of...

Google Voice: Apple, the iPhone App Killer; FCC Wants Answers

Posted on August 11, 2009
On Public Knowledge Blog, Art Brodsky reports that the FCC wants to know why Apple rejected Google?s new Voice application, whether AT&T had anything to do with it, and what other applications have been rejected for the iPhone. The answers...

Great dot-gov Websites 2009

Posted on August 11, 2009
Hat tip to the July issue of the AALL Washington E-Bulletin for calling attention to Joab Jackson's Great dot-gov Web Sites 2009 published in Government Computing News. Featured sites include OMB's Data.gov, The Defense Information Systems Agency's Forge...

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Harvard Law School Library Re-engineered

Posted on August 11, 2009
Under John Palfrey's leadership, the Harvard Law School Library has been reorganized and has implemented Google's human resources policy for engineers that allows engineers library staffers to spend 20 percent of their time to pursue professional interests outside their core...

A Few Thoughts on the e-Book Market

Posted on August 11, 2009
Peter Osnos has a nice essay in the Atlantic that ponders the future of e-books. He makes a number of interesting points. One is that books, unlike other electronic information products (think newspapers, among other types) do not have advertising...

Cleveland's Unpublished Opinions Redux

Posted on August 10, 2009
LLB readers may recall the interview I conducted with David Cleveland (Nova Southwestern) last October about his two now published articles on the history, value, and future of unpublished opinions in the federal courts, Overturning the Last Stone, The Final...

OpenCongress Relaunched with New Design and Features

Posted on August 10, 2009
OpenCongress recently completed a design re-do with a number of great new features. From their "what's new" announcement: Contact Congress -- for the first time, from any page on OpenCongress, you're just one click away from sending an email to...

Light Reading Just Before the Start of the New Academic Year?

Posted on August 10, 2009
Commenting on Robert Schnakenberg's Secret Lives of the Supreme Court: What Your Teachers Never Told You About America's Legendary Justices (Quirk Books, 2009), Ruthann Robson (CUNY School of Law) writes in a Constitutional Law Prof Blog post "[the book] is...

Opening: Director, St. John?s University School of Law Library

Posted on August 10, 2009
St. John?s University School of Law seeks applications for the position of Director of the Law Library, a 400,000 volume / volume equivalent library serving a faculty of 60 and approximately 900 law students. The Rittenberg Law Library?s primary mission...

House Votes Name Change: Law Library of Congress to Become the National Law Library

Posted on August 10, 2009
The House has voted overwhelmingly in favor on a bill that would rename the Law Library of Congress as the National Law Library. The bill also establishes the William Orton Law Library Support Program, which allows the Library to accept...

UNT To Get Law School

Posted on August 10, 2009
The University of North Texas will get a law school thanks to a bill signed into law last June by Texas Governor Rick Perry. The public law school will be located in the Dallas Metroplex area, joining Southern Methodist University...

"As you mull over the lastest West invoice" ... Thomson Reuters 2Q Profits More Than Doubled

Posted on August 10, 2009
On Legal Research Plus, Erika Wayne, Stanford's Deputy Law Library Director, suggests some reading material "as you mull over the latest West invoice," The Age's August 7th financial news story, Thomson Reuters profit doubles on cost cuts, a story published...

Overlawyered, Oldest Law Blog, Hits 10-Year Mark

Posted on August 09, 2009
According to Bob Ambrogi's Legal Blog Watch post, Walter Olson's Overlawyered is the oldest law blog in the blogosphere and July 1st was the 10th anniversary of its launch. Belated happy birthday. Ten years is one hellva long time to...

A Second First for Justice Sotomayor

Posted on August 09, 2009
Judge Sonia Sotomayor was officially sworn is as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by Chief Justice John Roberts Saturday, August 8, in two ceremonies. The first oath of office was a private ceremony in a room where...

CRS Report on the U.S. Newspaper Industry

Posted on August 08, 2009
Two snips from The U.S. Newspaper Industry in Transition (July 8, 2009): The U.S. newspaper industry is in the midst of a historic restructuring, buffeted by a deep recession that is battering crucial advertising revenues, long-term structural challenges as readers...

Another Director Named Jim: SUNY Buffalo appoints new law library director

Posted on August 08, 2009
Much to my surprise - for a number of reasons - I saw a tweet from AALLNET dated Thursday night show up on twitter late last night announcing that the new SUNY Buffalo Library Director and Vice Dean for Legal...

A Modest Proposal for Bar Exam Reform

Posted on August 07, 2009
On The Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin suggests "members of bar exam boards ... and presidents and other high officials of state bar associations should be required to take and pass the bar exam every year by getting the same passing...

Friday Fun: Bookstore's 10-Round Smackdown between the Printed Book and Kindle

Posted on August 07, 2009
Hat tip to Hugh D'Andrade on EFF's Deeplinks Blog for calling attention to San Francisco bookstore Green Apple Books' on-going 10-part series of humorous videos that highlight the advantages of paper books over Amazon's Kindle. At Deeplinks Blog you can...

Per Day Limit Set by FreeCourtDockets

Posted on August 07, 2009
Due to high volume use of the popular FreeCourtDockets, Courtport LLC has been for forced to implement a limit on docket data a person can obtain in a single day to "$2.40 worth of dockets." The limit does not apply...

DOL Revamps Disability Resources Website

Posted on August 07, 2009
The U.S. Department of Labor has re-named and re-launched DisabilityInfo.gov as Disability.gov. From the press release: The new Web site integrates content from 22 federal agencies and will be managed by the Labor Department. The former DisabilityInfo...

Reminder: Today's Law Librarian Show to Review AALL Annual Meeting at 3:00 PM Eastern Time

Posted on August 07, 2009
Rich Leiter and Brian Striman's podcast/internet radio show, The Law Librarian, will review this year's AALL annual meeting today at 3:00 PM Eastern Time. Should be interesting. [JH]

Is Marketing Us to Death the Future of e-Readers and Newspapers?

Posted on August 07, 2009
Editor & Publisher is reportingthat the e-reader (Kindle, et al.) will have to evolve to a broader mix of reader products, including newspapers and magazines. Otherwise the recreational reading market may not be enough to reach the level of penetration...

Message from West on AALL Sponsorship Policy

Posted on August 07, 2009
The following message by Anne Ellis, Senior Director, Librarian Relations, Thomson-Reuters, was distributed this morning on the AALL Academic Law Libraries SIS and AALL Court & County SIS listservs and probably other (all?) AALL listservs: We?ve noticed some chatter on...

Google's Alexander Macgillivray on the Google Book Search Settlement

Posted on August 06, 2009
The Berkman Center has released a video of Alexander Macgillivray, Google's Deputy General Counsel for Products and Intellectual Property, discussing the Google Book Search Settlement. Hat tip to Digital Koans. [JH]

Congressional Documents on FDsys

Posted on August 06, 2009
Peggy Garvin provides an excellent overview of congressional documents on GPO's FDsys in The Government Domain - Congressional Documents on FDsys: the Basics on LLRX. [JH]

Internet Use Studies from Pew Research Center

Posted on August 06, 2009
Use of the Mobile Internet Increases; African Americans Most Active Users. According to Wireless Internet Use, a report of an April 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center?s Internet & American Life Project, use mobile devices to access the Internet...

Study Says Jurors Discount Coercion in Confessions

Posted on August 06, 2009
There is a recent study that suggests when jurors are confronted with allegations of a coerced confession, they tend to ignore them. The belief is that coercion only affects the guilty but not the innocent. The paper is on SSRN....

The Improve PACER Petition Passes Halfway Mark

Posted on August 06, 2009
PACER subscriptions officially topped the one million mark on July 31, 2009. Meanwhile the Improve PACER petition has passed the halfway mark toward reaching its 1,000 signature goal. Have you signed the petition? See also LLB's earlier post, Online Petition...

Does A PowerPoint Presentation Have to Be Boring?

Posted on August 06, 2009
One of the most annoying things about most PowerPoint presentations is that they present text that acts as an outline of the presentation. It is a useful feature for PowerPoint at its most basic, but annoying nonetheless because few presenters...

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