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Fire Damages Lorain County Law Library

Posted on May 20, 2009
A fire that broke out at the Lorain County Administration Building in Elyria, Ohio, Saturday night caused $200,000 to $300,000 in damages, burning part of the Lorain County Law Library and permeating smoke throughout the five-floor building, according to The...

Basic Requirements for the Authentication of Digital Repositories of Legal Resources

Posted on May 19, 2009
In Authentication of Digital Repositories, John Joergensen (Rutgers-Camden) identifies two necessary and essential elements of an authentication system for digital legal materials: (1) disclosure of how a publisher obtains the material they offer, and how that material is handled, and...

ScheduAALL 2009: Share Your Personal AALL Annual Meeting Plans

Posted on May 19, 2009
Loyola Law School's Tom Boone has launched a very useful and fun personal scheduling application for attendees of the 2009 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference, ScheduAALL 2009. Take a tour of the app here. ScheduAALL can also be found on...

Should the US Join the Convention on the Law of the Sea?

Posted on May 19, 2009
An upswing in piracy attacks off the coast of Somalia, the rise of new naval powers such as China and India, and a rapidly melting polar ice cap in the Arctic are but a "few of the pressing issues that...

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Reminder: Mersky Spirit of Law Librarianship Award Nominations Due By June 1

Posted on May 19, 2009
If you know of an individual or group who is performing outstanding works of public service, please let the Mersky Spirit of Law Librarianship Award know. Nominations may be sent to the committee through Richard Leiter, either via email or...

Finally (Hopefully) Some Relief from Our Current Economic Turmoil for Taxpayers

Posted on May 19, 2009
Sen. Mark Udall (Dem., CO) introduced S. 1058 May 14th. The bill would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the tax on beer to its pre-1991 level. God bless Udall and his six bipartisan co-sponsors. [JH]

How Happy Is Your Profession?

Posted on May 19, 2009
Time Magazine has an happiness index measuring how happy various job categories measure up in their happiness quotient. Clergy hit the top of the scale and gas station attendants hit the bottom. Librarians, for some reason, are listed twice in...

The Abercrombie and Fitch of the Legal Publishing World: Profile of West Publishing Company

Posted on May 18, 2009
Citypages (Minneapolis) profiles West Publishing in an ever so uncritical chamber-of-commerce success story way in Westlaw Rises to Legal Publishing Fame by Selling Free Information. But the detail-rich article is recommended reading and does report some interesting information, some of...

Use Restriction on Public Domain Reproductions by Cornell University Library Removed

Posted on May 18, 2009
Cornell University Library no longer requires its users to seek permission to publish public domain works duplicated from its collections according to the Library's new policy. The Cornell initiative goes further than many other recent attempts to open access to...

Call for Papers: Symposium on Computational Argumentation

Posted on May 18, 2009
A call for papers , deadline July 3, 2009, has been issued for a symposium on ?The Uses of Computational Argumentation,? Nov. 5-7, 2009, in Washington D.C., as part of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence?s Fall Symposium...

Opening: Access Services Librarian, Mercer

Posted on May 18, 2009
The Furman Smith Law Library at Mercer University School of Law in Macon, Georgia, invites applications for the position of Access Services Librarian. Librarians are active participants in the life of the law school, and teach a required one-credit first...

My First Week Teaching Legal Research in China

Posted on May 18, 2009
[Please refer to my March 8 LLB post for background.] I arrived in Wuhan last Sunday afternoon. To my surprise and dismay, I learned the next day that the law library is reclassifying/reshifting its English-language collection. No one seems to...

Two Cases From The Supreme Court This Morning And Other SCOTUS News

Posted on May 18, 2009
The Supreme Court has issued two opinions this morning. The first deals with a Bivens lawsuit filed by an Arab-American against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller over arrest and harsh treatment immediately following the 9/11...

More Kafka Than Kafka: Representing a Gitmo Detainee

Posted on May 17, 2009
The Guantanamo Labyrinth by Tom Hundley, (Chicago Tribune) writes Bob Ambrogi, "is the best description I've read of what it is like to be a lawyer representing a Guantanamo detainee." Highly recommended. [JH]

"Creepy, crawly toxic software that contaminate our computers without our ever knowing it"

Posted on May 16, 2009
Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain and Internet security industry experts teach 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl about the dangers of computer viruses to the Internet in general and social networking sites in particular with emphasis on the Conficker Worm threat (Stahl's...

Into the Twittersphere We Go

Posted on May 15, 2009
Hat tip to Jim Levy (Nova) on Legal Writing Prof Blog who writes that the video "pretty much sums up the whole Twitter 'thang for me." [JH]

Should Developers Be Liable For Their Code? New EC Proposal Says "Yes"

Posted on May 15, 2009
Software companies could be held responsible for the security and efficacy of their products, if a new European Commission consumer protection proposal becomes law. Of course the industry's Business Software Alliance (BSA) is critical of the proposal but BSA spokesperson,...

FY 2010 US Budget Available from GPO's FDsys

Posted on May 15, 2009
The authenticated electronic version of the Obama Administration's FY 2010 Budgetwas made available May 11th on GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys). The migration of information from GPO Access into Federal Digital System (FDsys) will be complete in mid-2009 according to...

Download Keeping Faith with the Constitution from ACS

Posted on May 15, 2009
Keeping Faith with the Constitution (American Constitutional Society, May 2009) presents a common-sense approach to interpreting the U.S. Constitution and explains why it is the world's most enduring written Constitution. Authored by legal scholars Goodwin Liu, Pamela S...

States Strengthen Whistleblower Protection Laws

Posted on May 15, 2009
Many states are adopting new laws to protect their civil servants who report waste, fraud and abuse, according to a legal analysis released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). While the level of whistleblower protection varies widely across...

Court Rules For Football in Washington Team Name Case

Posted on May 15, 2009
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has affirmed a ruling in favor of professional football against Native American plaintiffs over the Washington Redskin name and trademarks. The plaintiffs claimed the name is offensive, though...

WolframAlpha Available Later Tonight

Posted on May 15, 2009
WolframAlpha, the computational search engine that creates data sets from search results on the fly will hp live tonight at 7 PM CDT. More from ChannelWeb. The previous "go live" was scheduled on May 18. [MG]

Privacy and Confidentiality Issues: A Guide for Libraries and Their Lawyers

Posted on May 14, 2009
Julie Graves Krishnaswami, Faculty Services Librarian and a Legal Research Professor at CUNY-Law, finds the format of ALA's recently published Privacy and Confidentiality Issues: A Guide for Libraries and Their Lawyers (Feb. 28, 2009) to be ideal for quick reference...

Ambrogi Reviews 10 Free Sites for U.S. Case Law

Posted on May 14, 2009
Bob Ambrogi reviews the peculiar strengths and weaknesses of the following free case law sites: Fastcase, www.fastcase.com and Casemaker, www.casemaker.us FindACase, www.findacase.com PreCYdent, www.precydent.com The Public Library of Law, www.plol.org AltLaw, www...

Recent Law Library Renovations Open the Premises to Natural Light and State-of-the-Art IT

Posted on May 14, 2009
Check out AALL Spectrum Blog for photos of recent library renovations completed at John Marshall Law School, Chicago [here] and Ohio Northern University College of Law [here]. At both academic law libraries, the renovations created a environment more conducive to...

Opening: Law Librarian I, Maryland State Law Library

Posted on May 14, 2009
Details on the the Maryland Judiciary website here.

Google Adds Video to News

Posted on May 14, 2009
Google has quietly added another feature to its news aggregator, links to related video clips on YouTube. The integration of properties is pretty slick. Clicking on the YouTube link opens the video right on the main news page rather than...

Party Law School Rankings

Posted on May 14, 2009
Students wanting to attend a top law school according to US News and SubtleDig's Party Law School Rankings should apply to Virginia, Berkeley and Michigan. Law librarians look for a fun place to work take note. Here's SubtleDig's top 10...

Online Copyright and Wrongs Debate

Posted on May 13, 2009
The Economist has been holding an online debate since May 5th. The motion: "This house believes that existing copyright laws do more harm than good." Very interesting. Check out the opening arguments, rebuttals, and today, the closing arguments. Hat tip...

Does the Google Book Settlement Create an Orphan-Works Monopoly?

Posted on May 13, 2009
Randal C. Picker (Chicago) address three issues that raise antitrust and competition policy concerns in The Google Book Search Settlement: A New Orphan-Works Monopoly? [SSRN]: First, the agreement calls for Google to act as agent for rights holders in setting...

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