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Forthcoming Law and Legal Research Titles from Carolina Academic Press

Posted on July 30, 2008
Details below the fold. [JH] Abortion under State Constitutions: A State-by-State Analysis by Paul Benjamin Linton (Forthcoming August 2008) Latino/a Rights and Justice in the United States: Perspectives and Approaches, 2d ed., by Jose Luis Morin (Forthcoming July 2008) A...

Pew Research Center?s Releases The Changing Newsroom

Posted on July 30, 2008
Once upon a law library career break during the early 1990s I worked for the electronic branch of the Chicago Tribune where we prepared stories for distribution to online search services like LexisNexis. So I found the Pew Research Center?s...

Create Content Once, Broadcast to Multiple Web Destinations

Posted on July 30, 2008
Aliza Sherman has a great Web Worker Daily post on tools you can use to aggregate your social networking sites for the purpose of broadcasting a message to multiple places. Sherman calls them "social aggregation broadcasting tools" (SABTs) and categorizes...

Law Firm to Law School: We're not hiring your grads until you improve your legal research program

Posted on July 30, 2008
As a law firm librarian at Seyfarth Shaw (Chicago) in the 1980s, I dealt with the consequences of downright terrible law school legal research instruction. The firm only hired the top 10% from the graduating classes of the top 10...

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A "Responsible Adult" Would Be Someone Carrying Less Than a Quarter-Pound of Weed

Posted on July 30, 2008
Someone at CNN must be smoking a little weed (or today must be a really, really slow news day) because CNN is featuring a story about a bill that was introduced back in April. [Legislators aim to snuff out penalties...

Barack Obama as Law Prof

Posted on July 30, 2008
Barack Obama taught at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 years as a part-time lecturer. He offered classes on constitutional law and voting rights, and a seminar on racism and the law. In a recent interview, Michelle Obama...

Bush Signs H.R. 3221, Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, To Restore Market Confidence in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Posted on July 30, 2008
President Bush signed H.R. 3221, The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, into law today despite his opposition to the Act's inclusion of nearly $4 billion in grants for local governments to buy and refurbish foreclosed properties. The Act...

2008-09 Edition of Law Library Benchmarks Now Available

Posted on July 29, 2008
Primary Research Group has published Law Library Benchmarks, 2008-09 Edition. ISBN: 1-57440-104-1 Currently Available: PDF ($129), Site Licenses ($215), Enterprise License ($299) Print Version ($129.00) available August 5, 2008 Data in the report is based on a survey of 55...

Time to Put the Latino Threat Narrative to Rest

Posted on July 29, 2008
In Are Latinos a Threat to the U.S.? Orange County Register reporter Erin Carlyle interviews Leo Chavez about his recently released new book, The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation (released on July 28, 2008 by Stanford UP)...

War Crimes Then and Now

Posted on July 29, 2008
The first war crimes trials since World War II started last week. Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former driver, is accused of helping al-Qaid. Andrew McBride, a former Justice Department official, discusses the trials, as well as how Guantanamo's war...

Welsh on the Development of U.S. Congressional Committees

Posted on July 29, 2008
Abbie Mulvihill, AbsTracked, reports that Michael Welsh's (Senior Legislative Librarian at Pillsbury LLP) An Overview of the Development of U.S. Congressional Committees (pdf) has been significantly revised since first published in the Spring and Summer 2004 issues of Law Library...

Professional Reading: Reference Citations: Best Practices for Making Links

Posted on July 29, 2008
Carol Anne Meyer's Reference Accuracy: Best Practices for Making the Links was recently published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing. Here's the abstract: Reference citations in scholarly publishing are critical, providing measurability and discoverability...

Opening: Collections/Electronic Librarian, University of Oregon Law Library

Posted on July 29, 2008
The John E. Jaqua Law Library at the University of Oregon seeks a creative, skilled, and service-oriented colleague for the position of Law Collections and Electronic Resources Librarian. This position manages all aspects of collection development and acquisitions, focusing particularly...

Battle of the eBook Readers: Sony Takes a Swing at Expanding Its Market

Posted on July 29, 2008
Endgaget's Paul Miller is reporting in Sony Reader goes open that Sony is distributing an update that will allow the Company's Reader to use purchased books in the protected EPUB format from whoever is selling them, instead of just being...

Fall Classes May Be Canceled if Law Library Construction Not Completed

Posted on July 29, 2008
If the American Justice School of Law Barkley School of Law's (Paducah, KY) new 26,000-square-foot, $5 million library and the renovation of a classroom building are not completed in the next two months classes will be canceled. Contracts for all...

Twitterati Pan Launch of "Google-buster" Search Engine Cuil

Posted on July 29, 2008
Cuil may be the latest in a long list of failed challenges to Google's search engine if you agree with what is being Twittered about it. The new search engine (LLB post) claims to be the largest search engine on...

Franking Requirements and Congressional Web Communications: Catching Up with Web 2.0 Technologies

Posted on July 28, 2008
Donny Shaw, Congress Gossip Blog, reports that in late June, Rep. Micheal Capuano (D-MA), the chairman of the Congressional Committee on Mailing Standards, issued a letter with recommendations on how to update the rules to make them more relevant to....

Lawyer2Lawyer Podcast with Jonathan Zittrain

Posted on July 28, 2008
Lawyer2Lawyer co-host Bob Ambrogi interviews Harvard Law Professor and co-founder of HLS's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Jonathan Zittrain in this recent podcast. Topics discussed: Zittrain's new book, The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It,...

New Law and Technology Articles on LLRX

Posted on July 28, 2008
June/July 2008 law and technology articles on LLRX.com: Criminal Justice Resources: Sex Offender Residency Restrictions, by Ken Strutin E-Discovery Update: Lessons From An E-Discovery Disaster, by Conrad J. Jacoby The Goverment Domain: Government Topics at the SLA 2008 Conference, by...

Professional Reading: Legal Education Going Global

Posted on July 28, 2008
Simon Chesterman (New York University School of Law, Singapore Program) has posted The Globalisation of Legal Education on SSRN. Here's the abstract: This article examines the evolution of legal education as it has moved through international, transnational, and now global...

Opening: Circulation/Reference Librarian, New York University Law Library

Posted on July 28, 2008
Circulation/Reference Librarian New York University Law Library Responsibilities: Under the supervision of the Associate Director of Collection Services, oversight of the Circulation functions of the library, which uses the Innovative Interfaces Millennium ILS...

DOJ Releases Report on Politicized Hiring in Ofc of Attorney General

Posted on July 28, 2008
In March 2007, the Office of Professional Responsibility & the Office of the Inspector General began a joint investigation into the hiring (and retention) practices of the DOJ for U.S. Attorneys and Assistant U.S. Attorneys. After the Congressional testimony of...

Cash for Class "Deplorable" at NYU Law School

Posted on July 28, 2008
NYU Law School Vice Dean Liam Murphy recently emailed all students to warn then that the law school is cracking down on the "deplorable practice" of students exchanging cash or goods for class registration spots, explaining "Places in law school...

Oh cool - it's Cuil

Posted on July 28, 2008
Cuil is a new Internet search engine, promoted as a rival to Google (no, really). From the AP: Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its...

1 Trillion Unique URLs! So Many Destinations, So Slow an Internet Connection

Posted on July 28, 2008
From Google Blog's post We knew the web was big...: We've known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the...

The Virtual Chase Closing Unless Someone Wants to Take It Over

Posted on July 28, 2008
A true pioneer in the field, Genie Tyburski, has announced that she is closing down her great site, The Virtual Chase, taking it down gradually over the next several months and closing it entirely by May 2009 unless someone steps...

Eric Roston's The Carbon Age

Posted on July 27, 2008
Do's & Don'ts of Carbon Management IBM and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) recently released a best practice guide claimed to be "one of the most detailed research projects into corporate carbon management practice ever undertaken in the UK." Download...

GOP Launches Grassroots-Driven Platform Development Site

Posted on July 27, 2008
Check out GOPPlatform2008.com, one of this election campaign season's "webbiest sites" according to the Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas in his article, Right Click: The GOP's Cyrus Krohn Has His Sites Set On Updating the Party's Internet Connection...

"Got Milk" Folks Have a Cow Over Artist's "Got Breastmilk" T-Shirts

Posted on July 27, 2008
Lawyers for the humorless California Milk Processor Board sent Alaskan artist Barbara Holmes a cease and desist letter claiming her "Got Breastmilk" T-shirts infringed on the Board's "Got Milk" trademark. While taking the claim seriously, Holmes raised a good defense:...

Does the Mainstream Media Ignore Ordinary People in Economic News Coverage?

Posted on July 26, 2008
New report, Journalists Give Workers the Business: How the Mainstream Media Ignores Ordinary People in Economic News Coverage, from the Center for American Progress: The mainstream media has a profound impact on politics, helping everyday Americans determine what topics people...

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