Legal Research

LC Launches Twitter Feed

Posted on January 29, 2009
Here. [JH]

Copyright and User-Generated Sites

Posted on January 29, 2009
The February 2009 issue of ABA Journal features a fine article by Steven Seidenberg on recent copyright law developments respecting user-generated Websites such as YouTube. ?Copyright in the Age of YouTube," Featuring insightful comments from IP scholars and practitioners, Seidenberg...

Professionals and Web 2.0

Posted on January 29, 2009
CCH recently undertook research to better understand the relationships between Professionals, Information and Web 2.0 applications by surveying more than 200 CCH customers from professional service firms and academic institutions across the Asia Pacific region...

The Jeffersonian Ideal and the Internet

Posted on January 29, 2009
About David Post's In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace (Oxford UP, Jan. 2009), Larry Lessig writes "reading this beautifully written and extraordinarily diverse work today is what it must have been like to know or...

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Scanner Turns Books Into Audio Files

Posted on January 29, 2009
Plustek's $700 Book Reader V100 scans books through OCR software that understands words even when they?re faded or smudged on the physical page. It can duplicate books in PDF and various other file types. But the killer app is that...

Has Your Bank Receive Its TARP Money?

Posted on January 28, 2009
ProPublica has a nice mash up that identifies each financial institution that expects or has received bailout money under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Click on the markers for the amount given to each financial institution. As of Jan 27,...

Sleep-Emailing?

Posted on January 28, 2009
I'm sure we've all know a staffer we thought was sleepwalking at work but what about this? In the Sleep Medicine journal, researchers report a case in which a woman emailed her friends during a sleepwalking episode -- a behavior...

What Ifs: The Market Structure of Google's De Facto National Digital Library Under the Company's Proposed Copyright Settlement

Posted on January 28, 2009
From its mission of providing digitized books for its ad revenue generating SE business to transforming into an monopolizer of digitized information if the Company's proposed copyright settlement is approved by the courts, Robert Darnton address his concerns about the...

Crowdsourcing Malware and Web Filtering

Posted on January 28, 2009
Herdict is a suite of new web-based tools from the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society, allows users around the world to contribute data relating to PC health and web accessibility. It aggregates individual contributions and seeks to provide...

Nelson on Judicial Review of Legislative Purpose

Posted on January 28, 2009
Caleb Nelson's (Virginia) article, Judicial Review of Legislative Purpose, 83 New York Law Review 1784 (Dec, 2008) [SSRN], calls attention to bygone norms of judicial review, which often prevented courts from investigating the motivations behind statutes even when the statutes?...

Amy Sonnie, the Banned Librarian

Posted on January 28, 2009
In 2002 the Texas Youth Commission banned Amy Sonnie?s young adult anthology of creative writing and art by LGBTQ youth. Her second book (forthcoming from Melville House, 2010) traces the untold history of poor white activists allied with the Black...

Avvo Blog's Real-Time Law Blog Ranking by Traffic

Posted on January 27, 2009
The Avvo Blog has created an auto-updating list of the top 300 legal blogs, ordered by their traffic rankings using Alexa data. The creators write "because of the way Alexa works, we could not include every blog we would have...

New Report on Emerging Information Technologies

Posted on January 27, 2009
In their 2009 ?Horizon Report,? EDUCAUSE and the New Media Consortium report on six emerging technologies likely to impact education (and implicitly, libraries) in the near future. The report discusses all-in-one mobile devices, cloud computing, geographic data, personalized Web media,...

Carnegie Report Co-Author Identifies Opportunities for Academic Law Librarians

Posted on January 27, 2009
Judith Welch Wegner (North Carolina), co-author of Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law ("Carnegie Report"), writes that "law librarians have an opportunity to enhance their teaching and institutional contributions as part of a broad effort to improve the...

The Volokh Conspiracy Owns the Weblog Awards

Posted on January 27, 2009
... and the winner in the Law category of the 2008 Weblog Awards is the Volokh Conspiracy with 42.6% of the votes, beating out the 2007 Best Law Blog, Above the Law. This is the second time Volokh Conspiracy won...

Register for AALL?s February Webinar on Communicating with C-level Management

Posted on January 27, 2009
Communication plays an important role in our daily lives. It is key to our success with C-level management (CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, etc.). How should a librarian interact with the C-people to earn their respect and provide a clear understanding of...

Opening: Information Delivery Services Librarian, University of Utah Law Library

Posted on January 27, 2009
S. J. Quinney Law Library, University of Utah, seeks an entry-level Information Delivery Services Librarian (with the faculty rank of Assistant Librarian) to develop, manage and provide document delivery and interlibrary loan services programs for the library...

Saucy Stores Get Allen & Overy Associate in Trouble

Posted on January 26, 2009
The world?s sixth largest law firm, Allen & Overy, has ordered one of its senior associates stationed in Russia, Deidre Dare, to stop publishing on her personal website her serialized novel about living in Moscow. Titled "Expat," the firm has...

Is It Time for a Law Library Bailout?

Posted on January 26, 2009
We'll leave it to AALL (or LexisNexis or Thomson West) to do a proper survey of the financial situation of law libraries but until then, please take this little unscientific LLB poll which is open to all, not just library...

Obama Expands Access to Federal Government Information

Posted on January 26, 2009
On January 21, President Obama reportedly signed an executive order (unofficial versions at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ExecutiveOrderPresidentialRecords/ and http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20090121/2009_PRA_EO.pdf ) expanding access to presidential records in the possession of the National Archives...

Weekly, Scratch That, Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents

Posted on January 26, 2009
Concurrent with the change in Administrations, the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents has been replaced by the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents, effective January 20, 2009. The Daily Compilation will keep the same SuDoc class (AE 2...

New California Ballot Measures Research Guide

Posted on January 26, 2009
I-Wei Wang, Reference Librarian at UC Berkeley Law Library, has put together an outstanding guide on California Ballot Initiatives. From the guide: "Increasingly, ballot measures in California are the focus of controversy and debate, yet they can be notoriously difficult...

Looking for Government Agencies using Twitter or Other Social Media?

Posted on January 26, 2009
Then check out the GovTwit Directory from BearingPoint.com. [RJ]

Opening: Associate Director and Assistant Professor St. Mary?s University School of Law Library

Posted on January 26, 2009
We?re pleased to announce the position of Associate Director/Assistant Professor at St. Mary?s University School of Law. This is a University tenure-track faculty position reporting directly to the law library director. The tenure is within the University, not the law...

U.S. Institute of Peace Issues Genocide Prevention Report

Posted on January 25, 2009
The report, which is entitled "Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for U.S. Policymakers", asserts that genocide is preventable, and that making progress toward doing so begins with leadership and political will. The report provides 34 recommendations, starting with the need for...

Trends in College Spending Where Does the Money Come From? Where Does It Go?

Posted on January 24, 2009
A new report entitled "Trends in College Spending Where Does the Money Come From? Where Does It Go?", from the Delta Project, examines revenue spending for nearly 2,000 public and private non-profit colleges and universities (representing more than 75 percent...

Hopefully One Last Presidential Transition Resource Post

Posted on January 23, 2009
I thought we were finished with LLB posts about presidential transition resources until Shirl Kennedy's post about Carroll Publishing?s Transition Tracker caught my eye. Looks pretty good. Check out Shirl's post on ResourceShelf for details. [JH]

White House Needs IT Bailout

Posted on January 23, 2009
The Washington Post's Anne E. Kornblut reports on the technological culture shock Obama staffers are experiencing in the West Wing at Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages. "It is kind of like going from an Xbox to...

Help Save the Nation's Oldest Public Library

Posted on January 23, 2009
The Philadelphia Daily News is reporting that the Darby Free Library, which was founded in 1743 and is believed to be the oldest continuously operating public library in America, will be forced to close its doors at year's end if...

Friday Fun: Rumpole's Last Case

Posted on January 23, 2009
Sir John Mortimer, the creator of the character Rumpole, a disheveled barrister memorably featured in the popular BBC television series "Rumpole of the Bailey," died last Friday at 85. [BBC obituary] Rumpole's principle antagonist was Judge 'Mad Bull' Bullingham but...

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