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Friday Fun: Why Gorillas Shouldn't Be Allowed in the Library

Posted on November 14, 2008
And this library didn't get the "No Gorillas" memo [JH]

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Posted on November 14, 2008
Reviews published in the November 3rd, 2008 issue of InSITE: ATS: Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty Institute for Women's Policy Research UNPAN: United Nations Online Network in Public Administration and Finance WashingtonWatch.com

Clancy's The Fourth Amendment

Posted on November 14, 2008
Due to the thousands of daily governmental intrusions ? such as airport checks, traffic stops, drug testing, obtaining of digital evidence, traditional criminal law enforcement practices and regulatory inspections ? the Fourth Amendment is the most commonly implicated and litigated...

FBI Releases 2007 Hate Crime Statistics

Posted on November 14, 2008
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released statistics which indicated that 7,624 criminal incidents involving 9,006 offenses were reported in 2007 as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or physical or mental disability...

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2009 Congressional and Presidential Transition From GAO

Posted on November 14, 2008
Following the historic election, the Government Accountability Office has put together a resource to assist with the transition to a new Congress and Administration. ?GAO has combed through all of our recent work to help identify where our work can...

Better hurry! Time is running out if you plan to apply for the bailout bucks.

Posted on November 14, 2008
According to Taxpayers for Common Sense, applications are due today by 5pm! [RJ]

University of Denver Law Librarian Fellowship Program

Posted on November 13, 2008
The University of Denver Library and Information Science Program is proud to announce a new specialization in law librarianship. Beginning Fall Quarter 2009, LIS will be adding a rotation of courses specifically created to educate law librarians. Students completing the...

Librarians to Construct Filtered-Web Search Engine

Posted on November 13, 2008
From Reference Extract: Reference Extract is envisioned as a web search engine, like Google, Yahoo and MSN. However, unlike other search engines, Reference Extracts will be built for maximum credibility by relying on the expertise and credibility judgments of librarians...

From Court to Westlaw: The Editorial Process of Preparing a Court Opinion for Online Access

Posted on November 13, 2008
By now legal research students probably need a short break in class. This brief video from Thomson-West might do the trick. The Westcast shows the editorial process of taking a court opinion and preparing it for access on Westlaw. In...

Special Librarians, The Best Nonpolitical Jobs for Political Junkies

Posted on November 13, 2008
In an interesting article on career choices, US News and World Report looks at the 7 Best Nonpolitical Jobs for Political Junkies. The number 1 career choice: librarian. Here's why: Not just any librarian?a special librarian. Special librarians work for...

Google Tracks Flu's Spread Using Search Data

Posted on November 13, 2008
How? By aggregating Google search data to estimate flu activity by state. Google claims the system is two weeks faster than traditional flu surveillance systems used by the CDC and other public health services. Check out the Google Flu Trend...

The Omnibus Child Welfare Act Explained

Posted on November 13, 2008
On Oct. 7, 2008, President Bush signed H.R. 6893, the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 into law (P.L. 110-351)[Thomas]. In Child Welfare: The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, the Congressional...

Got to Love the Flat Tax or Why WSOP's Second Place Finisher Came in First

Posted on November 12, 2008
The World Series of Poker main event, the $10,000 entry fee No Limit Hold'em Championship, ended yesterday. Russ Fox calculated the tax liability for each of the final table players. It was quite an international field. The effective tax rate...

UT Law Targets US News Top 10 Ranking with New $200 Million Funding Campaign

Posted on November 12, 2008
UT Law School Dean Lawrence Sager is leading a funding campaign to nearly double the law school's current $202 million endowment by raising $200 million by 2014. With the additional fund he hopes the school will attract the kind of...

LJ's 2008 Placements & Salary Survey

Posted on November 12, 2008
Library Journal has released its Placement and Salary Survey for 2008. Despite the economic crisis, the outlook looks good for the profession. On the positive side: Annual salaries increased approximately 3.1% Large gains for minority grads in the Southeast Strong...

Fidelity as the Organizing Construct for Legal Ethics

Posted on November 12, 2008
Daniel Markovits reinterprets the positive law governing lawyers to identify fidelity as its organizing construct in his new book, A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age (Princeton UP, Oct. 19, 2008). Fidelity requires lawyers (1) to repress...

HeinOnline Offers National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws

Posted on November 12, 2008
HeinOnline is offering a new a-la-carte library, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL). With the NCCUSL library you can access and search the full text of all Model Acts drafted, recommended or endorsed by the Conference...

Law Library of Congress Teams Up With Google to Digitize Congressional Hearings

Posted on November 12, 2008
From the Law Library of Congress: "As part of the Law Library?s transition to the digital future, a collaborative pilot project was undertaken with Google, Inc. to digitize the entire collection and make it freely available to Congress and the...

Credit Rating Agencies and the Financial Crisis

Posted on November 12, 2008
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing entitled Credit Rating Agencies and the Financial Crisis. The hearing examined the actions of the three largest credit rating agencies, Standard & Poor?s, Moody?s Corporation, and Fitch Ratings, leading up...

Thomson-West Launches Westlaw China

Posted on November 11, 2008
West has announced the launch of Westlaw China. The much needed service provides access to Chinese legal information, primary sources and secondary materials. In some instances, English translations appear side-by-side the original Chinese text. Coverage at launch time includes: More...

The American Veterans and Servicemembers Survival Guide

Posted on November 11, 2008
Veterans for America has released The American Veterans and Servicemembers Survival Guide (download page) The new book can be downloaded for free. Veterans for America has done a great job and service. The Survival Guide is as much a roadmap...

Twenty Percent of the US Population Deserves Our Thanks This Veterans Day

Posted on November 11, 2008
There are about 23.3 million living veterans (war and peacetime) and about 37 million dependents of living veterans and survivors of deceased veterans. Together they represent 20% of the US population and they all deserve our thanks for the sacrifices...

Change.gov offeres a one-stop-shop for Presidential Transition information

Posted on November 11, 2008
Change.gov offers the latest news, events, and announcements pertaining to the formation of the Obama Administration. The site offers press releases, information regarding the President-elect and his team, a blog, and interestingly enough, an online application for "non-career positions" in...

Obama Trivia

Posted on November 10, 2008
From the Telegraph, 50 things you might not know about Barack Obama. Here's a sample: He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics. He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager and now can't stand ice cream....

Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition

Posted on November 10, 2008
The Legal History and Rare Books Section of the American Association of Law Libraries, in cooperation with Gale Cengage Learning, announces the first annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. The essay competition is named in honor of Morris L...

Federal Court Opinions Still Contain Social Security Numbers and Alien Numbers

Posted on November 10, 2008
The E-Government Act of 2002 and Appellate Rule 25 require that personal identification information be redacted from documents filed with the courts because such information poses a real threat of identity theft. In an audit of Federal court opinions, Public...

The Next Tech-ade: FTC Hearings

Posted on November 10, 2008
The FTC's public hearings on "Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade" took place last week. The hearings brought together experts from the business, government, and technology sectors, consumer advocates, academicians, and law enforcement officials to explore the ways in which...

Google Ends its Advertising Deal with Yahoo

Posted on November 10, 2008
Fearing an antitrust showdown with the Justice department, Google has decided to end it's advertising deal with Yahoo. According to Google, "after four months of review, including discussions of various possible changes to the agreement, it's clear that government regulators...

New Joint Economic Committee Report Calls For Second Stimulus Package

Posted on November 10, 2008
A new report from the JEC suggests that another round of stimulus checks might be coming our way. In Stemming the Current Economic Downturn Will Require More Stimulus, the committee contends that a well-designed fiscal stimulus package will shorten the...

Senate Rules for Senators Convicted of a Felony

Posted on November 09, 2008
On Oct. 27, 2008 Senator Ted Stevens was convicted in federal court in Washington of seven counts of failing to disclose more than $250,000 in gifts and home renovations. On Nov. 4, 2008 the convicted felon from Alaska was re-elected...

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