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Online Petition Drive Launched to Improve PACER

Posted on June 18, 2009
Erika Wayne (Stanford Law School Library) and others have launched an online petition drive directed at the Administrative Office of the US Courts to improve PACER. The petition reads: We ask the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to improve...

Guide to Legal, Factual and Other Internet Sites

Posted on June 18, 2009
Legal, Factual and Other Internet Sites for Attorneys and Legal Professionals, 15 Rich. J.L. & Tech. 13 (2009), by Timothy Coggins, Associate Dean for Library & Information Services and Professor of Law, Univ. of Richmond School of Law, lists Internet...

RaceTracker Wiki Now Tracking Every Election for Congress and State Governor

Posted on June 18, 2009
The RaceTracker project on OpenCongress ? a non-partisan, fully-referenced, open-source and crowd-sourced wiki project ? now lists every candidate running in every U.S. Senate, House and governor?s race. Details on OpenCongress. [JH]

Who are we anyway?

Posted on June 18, 2009
I wanted to give this a catchy title that wouldn?t make me sound like I am repeating the age old question of ?what is the future of librarianship? or ?what skills should a librarian have? or ?what is the role...

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Law Prof Tries Selling IRC at Yard Sale

Posted on June 18, 2009
Librarians know that trying to give away, let alone sell, deaccessioned volumes of legal materials is pretty hard to do these days. On Concurring Opinions, Sarah Waldeck's (Seton Hall) posted a photo essay about her attempt to sell a copy...

Heads Up Job Seekers

Posted on June 18, 2009
If you are interested in the Southeastern-ish part of the country the AALL Job Hotline in the past 2 days pumped out five jobs in the SEAALL territory. They are: Associate Dean - Chase College of Law / Northern Kentucky...

Supreme Court Action Today

Posted on June 18, 2009
The Supreme Court issued four opinions this morning. The one making the news is the access to DNA testing. I'll get to that one in a bit. On to the others. Gross v, FBL Financial Services Inc. (08-441). This case...

How the Media Frames "Open Access"

Posted on June 17, 2009
Philip Davis, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at Cornell University and a former science librarian, applies concepts of media framing to the debate over open access in How the Media Frames ?Open Access? (Journal of Electronic Publishing)...

Who's Running the Most Web Servers?

Posted on June 17, 2009
From publicly available data: 1&1 Internet: 55,000 servers Rackspace: 50,038 servers The Planet: 48,500 servers Akamai Technologies: 48,000 servers OVH: 40,000 servers (company) But according to Rich Miller in Who Has the Most Web Servers? there are much larger server...

Reminder: Applications for the 2009 AALL Leadership Academy Due June 30

Posted on June 17, 2009
The AALL Leadership Academy, will be held October 16-17 in the Chicago area. Applications will be accepted May 1-June 30, and participants will be selected and notified by mid-August. Fellows will participate in pre-engagement exercises, have an opportunity to obtain...

Twitter Search in Plain English

Posted on June 17, 2009
From the great folks at Common Craft. [JH]

CRS Analyzes Tobacco Legislation

Posted on June 17, 2009
Congress is poised to pass legislation regulating the tobacco industry through the FDA. One of the elements of the legislation yet to be reconciled between the House and Senate is the reimplementation of the 1996 rule that limited tobacco advertising...

New Property Tax Database

Posted on June 16, 2009
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the George Washington Institute of Public Policy have launched Significant Features of the Property Tax, an online database that presents data on the property tax in all 50 states. This new site provides...

Using A Blog to Peer Review Drafts of an Academic Book

Posted on June 16, 2009
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, an assistant professor of computer science at the University of California at Santa Cruz, let the readers of a blog peer review drafts of his latest book, Expressive Processing (MIT Press). He shares his final conclusions about the...

Add OpenJurist to List of Free U.S. Case Law Websites

Posted on June 16, 2009
Well, I'm adding OpenJurist to my list -- news to me but I might be behind the curve because of the proliferation of free case law websites. OpenJurist's database currently has approximately 647,000 opinions from the United States Supreme Court...

Preserving Born-Digital Literary Materials for Scholarly Use

Posted on June 16, 2009
What are the archival challenges presented by contemporary authors' practice of drafting almost all of their materials on a computer? Approaches to Managing and Collecting Born-Digital Literary Materials for Scholarly Use, a white paper produced by the Office of Digital...

Kudos to Washington & Lee's Sally Wiant on a Job Very Well Done for 31 Years

Posted on June 16, 2009
Sally Wiant will retire as director of the Washington and Lee Law School Library at the end of June after 31 years at the helm according to W&L's announcement. She will assume full-time duties on the Washington and Lee Faculty...

Are Lawyers Competent to Construct Keyword Searches?

Posted on June 16, 2009
I wrote a post on the Tech Law Prof Blog yesterday with the same title above that is relevant to law librarians. It covered one of the more recent opinions in e-discovery cases where lawyers either can't agree on keyword...

Attend the CALI Conference Virtually ? for Free!

Posted on June 16, 2009
The CALI Conference for Law School Computing always has an interesting mix of sessions for librarians, IT folk and law faculty, and new this year, all the sessions will be webcast live! Using the open source web meeting software Dimdim,...

Lessons Learned from the Messy Practicalities of Law and Society Research

Posted on June 15, 2009
Hat tip to Stanford Law School Library Director Paul Lomio, Legal Research Plus, for calling attention to Conducting Law and Society Research: Reflections on Methods and Practices by Simon Halliday and Patrick Schmidt (Cambridge UP, May 25, 2009). According to...

Cleveland Law Library Association Awarded Grant to Create Online Tutorials

Posted on June 15, 2009
The Cleveland Law Library Association has been awarded a grant to create online tutorials for Association members and site visitors. The Law Library will receive its funding from the Attorney Outreach Grant Program of the United States District Court for...

Map of Disputes Between WTO Members

Posted on June 15, 2009
The World Trade Organization has created an interactive map that depicts disputes between its member states. The web page display also includes hyperlinks to enable the user to access dispute documents, a chronological list of disputes, lists of disputes by...

Opening: Web Services Developer, George Mason University Law Library

Posted on June 15, 2009
The George Mason University Law Library is seeking an experienced web services professional who will report directly to the Associate Dean for Library & Technology. Primary Duties: Design, update, and maintain the law school's public website and Intranet, including visual...

Need Design Ideas for Constructing or Renovating Your Law Library?

Posted on June 15, 2009
Here's some. [JH]

Supreme Court Action Today

Posted on June 15, 2009
The Supreme Court released two more opinions this morning: Nijhawan v. Holder, Attorney General (08-495). Petitioner was convicted of mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering. The jury did not make a finding about the amount of loss.....

EFF's Terms-of-Service Tracker

Posted on June 14, 2009
Terms-Of-Service (TOS) and other website policies form the foundation of one's relationship with social networking sites, online businesses, and other Internet communities. But most people become aware of these terms only when there's a problem. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has...

U.S. Geological Survey Launches Digital Map Beta

Posted on June 13, 2009
The Digital Map - Beta is the first step toward a new generation of digital topographic maps being created by the U.S. Geological Survey. These maps are built from The National Map data, which are integrated from local, State, Federal,...

Head Over Heels Literally

Posted on June 12, 2009
This week's Friday Fun video was suggested by Janet Fischer, Collection Development/Government Documents Librarian, Golden Gate University Law Library. Thanks Janet! [JH]

Product Development Thomson West-Style

Posted on June 12, 2009
Update on Rudovsky v. West Publishing Corp. The Legal Intelligencer's Shannon P. Duffy is reporting that a federal judge has refused to dismiss a defamation suit brought by two law professors who claim that West Publishing harmed their reputations when...

Cheap Geek's Guide to Free Online Presentation Tools

Posted on June 12, 2009
Greg Lambert writes that he couldn't live up to my reputation as the "cheap geek" if he didn't share three free online presentation tools: Adobe ConnectNow, Present.IO and Authorstream's "Present Live" feature for PowerPoints. Check out his review on 3...

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