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UNICEF 2007 Annual Report

Posted on July 26, 2008
From the press release: "The Annual Report 2007 details UNICEF?s work on behalf of children and their families in 155 countries and territories. The report outlines the challenges and accomplishments of UNICEF and its vast network of partners in their...

The Child Online Protection Act (COPA) Unconstitutional

Posted on July 26, 2008
The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals [opinion] upheld a lower court ruling striking down the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) which required Web operators to restrict access to large amounts of constitutionally protected speech. In its ruling the court...

Friday Fun: Evil Librarian Explains Consequences of Not Respecting Library Books to Children

Posted on July 25, 2008
Phil Hendrie is best known as the host of the nationally syndicated The Phil Hendrie Show, a comedy talk radio program. The show became renowned for its interviews with controversial guests who turned out to be fictional characters created and...

Arthur Miller: Law Schools Are Not Doing Their Customers a Service in Terms of Legal Research

Posted on July 25, 2008
A video interview featuring Arthur Miller on legal research and writing at law schools was shown as part of the West town hall meeting on legal research skills in Portland (Podcast preview of the meeting]. You can view the YouTube...

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New and Updated GlobaLex Research Guides

Posted on July 25, 2008
From the July 2008 GlobaLex release: New research guides and articles: A Brief Overview of the Saudi Arabian Legal System By Dr. Abdullah F. Ansary Defining International Terrorism in Light of Liberation Movements By Innocent Maja A New Guide to...

Avishai's The Hebrew Republic

Posted on July 25, 2008
"Avishai?s book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not only the genuine complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but also the real prospects for a sane and peaceful outcome." -- Dov Frohman, Founding CEO, Intel-Israel The Hebrew Republic: How...

Ways to Quickly Create Excellent Presentations Online

Posted on July 25, 2008
Great article from ReadWriteWeb: "It's no secret that not everyone can afford to buy Microsoft Office to create brilliant PowerPoint presentations for any event. While affordability plays a role, so does OS compatibility. Well, worry no more. ReadWriteWeb has a...

Time for Some Campaignin': Google's 2008 US Election Search Trends Site and Widget

Posted on July 25, 2008
Google has launched its 2008 US Election Search Trends site. You can track the most searched elections-related terms and find out which candidates are popular in different cities using Google's Search Queries Map plus add the Candidate Queries Map widget...

Ellen Callinan Isn't a Slacker

Posted on July 25, 2008
Ellen Callinan, Senior Consultant with Axelroth & Associates and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law, reflects on how her traditional weekends off have disappeared from her work routine since consulting from home at Flexible Weekends. She's no slacker! Just yesterday,...

On the Vendor-Law Library Relationship

Posted on July 24, 2008
Check out Alvin Podboy, Director of Library Services at Baker Hostetler, recent article, Legal Information Needs a Little Kedging. [JH]

Professional Reading: Visual Comparison of Search Results: A Censorship Case Study

Posted on July 24, 2008
Visual Comparison of Search Results: A Censorship Case Study by Mark Meiss and Filippo Menczer has been published in First Monday (July 7, 2008). Here's the abstract: Understanding the qualitative differences between the sets of results from different search engines...

Youtube Videos for Librarians

Posted on July 24, 2008
Laura Milligan has compiled a list of 100 YouTube videos covering tutorials for using library resources, literacy campaigns, outreach programs, plus several videos that poke fun at librarians and the library as a workplace. Check it out. [JH]

Special Criminal Contempt of Congress Act, H.R. 6508, Tossed Into the Bill Hopper

Posted on July 24, 2008
Remember when the House voted in February to hold White House counsel Harriet Mier and White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolton in Comtempt of Congress for failing to testify last July before the House Judiciary Committee about the U.S....

Do Senior Librarians Have a Moral Obligation to Retire?

Posted on July 24, 2008
The issue was presented on Brian Leiter's (Chicago) Philosophy Blog at Do Senior Faculty Have an Obligation to Retire at Some Point?, "Beneficial Retirement" of Senior Philosophers and The Brewing Economic Meltdown and the Philosophy Profession where Leiter writes Students...

Google's Wikipedia Rival, Knol, Now Online

Posted on July 24, 2008
Fans and detractors of Wikipedia take note. Google's Knol, a Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia of authoritative articles (called "knols" by Google to refer to "units of knowledge") is now online. Last December, Udi Manber, VP Engineering, explained the project in his...

Legal Research v. E-Discovery

Posted on July 24, 2008
I am always struck by the similarities between how law librarians discuss online legal research and how judges and commentators discuss e-discovery. Do lawyers have so insightful a grasp of the words and semantic relationships behind our relevance and privilege...

Researching US and Foreign Law Firms

Posted on July 23, 2008
Chambers 2008 US Law Firm Rankings is a great resource for practitioners searching for co-counsel. law librarians looking for assistance from colleagues, and job hunting law school students because of the number of practice areas (listed below the fold) the...

Professional Reading: Identifying Key Differences Between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0

Posted on July 23, 2008
Graham Cormode's and Balachander Krishnamurthy's Key Differences Between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 has been published in First Monday (June 2, 2008 issue). Here's the abstract: Web 2.0 is a buzzword introduced in 2003?04 which is commonly used to encompass...

Chinese Law Databases

Posted on July 23, 2008
Flora Sapio has compiled a list of 30 Chinese law databases (with very brief descriptions), most in Chinese, some in English such as the Asian Legal Information Institute's Laws of the People's Republic of China or bilingual e.g., iSinoLaw's fee-based...

Blogging the Legal Writing Institute Conference

Posted on July 23, 2008
Check out the great series of Legal Writing Prof Blog posts covering the 13th Biennial Conference of the Legal Writing Institute that took place on July 14-17, 2008 at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. [JH]

Bibliography of Academic Writings in the Field of Chinese Law in Western Languages, 2007

Posted on July 23, 2008
Dr. Knut Benjamin Pissler (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law) has published the latest version of his annual bibliography on academic works concerning Chinese law in western languages (primarily in English or German). Download Pissler's very helpful...

Opening: Electronic Services Librarian/Assistant Professor, St. Mary?s University School of Law Library

Posted on July 23, 2008
The position of Electronic Services Librarian/Assistant Professor at St. Mary?s University Law Library is a University tenure-track (non-law) faculty position reporting directly to the law library director. The position is open immediately. Applications are accepted until the position is filled...

The Real "Bones" as Expert Witness

Posted on July 23, 2008
On the Fox series "Bones" forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, a/k/a Bones, is brilliant at her profession, less so as an expert witness because she bores juries to death with her technical testimony. Kathy Reichs, the inspiration for Bones, ran into...

FDA Watchdog Site Launched by Current and Former FDA Employees

Posted on July 23, 2008
This takes guts! The recently launched Thoreau-FDA website is operated by current and former US FDA staff who believe public health is being put at unnecessary risk. These concerned civil servants and ex-civil servants have either experienced or are aware...

U.S. News Law School Rankings: Is Simson's "Enough" Enough?

Posted on July 23, 2008
Brian Leiter (Chicago) and others have demonstrated that the U.S. News methodology for ranking law schools is susceptible to manipulation by law schools and, in general, is a poor measure of a law school's quality of education and scholarly contributions...

LifeHacker's Google School

Posted on July 22, 2008
On Adjunct Law Prof Blog, Mitchell Rubinstein recommends Dennis Kennedy's Become a Google Master (ABA Journal, July 2008) but for librarians the only thing that might be useful is a link to Google School, a compilation of LifeHacker blog posts...

State Legislative History Research Guides on the Web

Posted on July 22, 2008
George Taoultsides calls attention to State Legislative History Research Guides on the Web compiled by Jennifer Bryan Morgan, Documents Librarian, Indiana University School of Law Library ? Bloomington on Et Seq. The Harvard Law School Library Blog. Bookmark it! [JH]

A Visual Guide for Understanding the Amended FISA

Posted on July 22, 2008
On Congress Gossip Blog, Donny Shaw observes that "unless you?re a legal scholar, it?s pretty tough to conduct your own analysis of the complex ... amended Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act]. Wes Alwan of Ketchup and Kaviar, however, has put together...

Coming Soon to HeinOnline: Nyberg & Boast's Subject Compilations of State Laws

Posted on July 22, 2008
HeinOnline has announced that it be adding Cheryl Nyberg & Carol Boast's Subject Compilations of State Laws as an a-la-carte library module. A great print resource for 50-state surveys published in law review articles, books, court briefs and opinions, federal...

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Protection

Posted on July 22, 2008
Check out this recent NBER report: Corporate Social Responsibility Through an Economic Lens by Forest L. Reinhardt, Robert N. Stavins, Richard H. K. Vietor. Here's the abstract: Business leaders, government officials, and academics are focusing considerable attention on the concept...

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