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Interview Opportunties in Portland

Posted on July 11, 2008
Be sure to check LLB's job announcements. Many recently published ones indicate that interviews will be conducted during AALL's Portland Meeting. [JH]

Professional Reading: Debating a Right of Reply on Search Results

Posted on July 10, 2008
Frank Pasquale III (Seton Hall) has posted Asterisk Revisited: Debating a Right of Reply on Search Results in SSRN. The article will appear in the Journal of Business and Technology Law. Here's the abstract: What happens when high-ranking results about...

LexisNexis v. Westlaw Survey Results

Posted on July 10, 2008
Check out two recent user surveys: Law librarian survey produced by Stanford Law's Paul Lomio and Erika Wayne: Law Librarians and LexisNexis vs. Westlaw: Survey Results (pdf) IP law professor and student survey by Franklin Pierce Law Center's Jon Cavicchi:...

How to Create a Branded YouTube Channel

Posted on July 10, 2008
Some useful tips from Collegewebeditor for implementing a branded channel in YouTube's Nonprofit Program. [JH]

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The Hate Directory: Hate Groups on the Internet

Posted on July 10, 2008
From the site: "The Hate Directory is now available in non-printable Portable Document Format. Features now include directories of blogs, web rings and racist games available on the Internet, as well as racist friendly web hosting services. Recent additions include...

Opening: Law Library Director, Riverside County Law Library

Posted on July 10, 2008
Riverside County Law Library is seeking a Library Director to plan, organize and direct one of the larger public law libraries in Southern California. Interviews can be scheduled at AALL's Portland Meeting. Contact Gayle Webb at gaylew@rclawlib.org Responsibilities: The Director...

Opening: Web Developer/Systems Administrator, Suffolk University

Posted on July 10, 2008
The Web Developer/Systems Administrator is responsible for developing web applications to support the Law School's web site, web based learning management system, other web based systems and for creating interfaces between systems. In addition, this position is responsible for systems...

Opening: Web Resources/Reference Librarian, University of Florida Law Library

Posted on July 10, 2008
The Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center at the University of Florida Levin College of Law seeks a Reference/Web Resources Librarian. The ideal candidate will be creative, dynamic, and forward-thinking, with a sincere love of teaching. The normal work schedule for...

Westcast Podcast: The Google Generation and Legal Research Previews AALL Town Hall Meeting

Posted on July 10, 2008
Check out WestBlog's post, The Google Generation and Legal Research, for a link to a Westcast podcast about the approaches the so-called "Google Generation" take to perform legal research as well as ongoing efforts by West and librarians in academic,...

Check Out the New TWEN at AALL

Posted on July 10, 2008
Thanks to TWEN's dominance in the law school segment of the eCourse management market, Westlaw has a huge advantage over LexisNexis in exposing law students to its online search services. On July 25th, a tweaked version of TWEN will be...

Zittrain on The Future of the Internet: Towards Civic Technologies

Posted on July 09, 2008
In this keynote talk at Personal Democracy Forum 2008: Rebooting the System, Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard) discusses how the Internet is held together by technologies of cooperation; how the openness that has made the Internet and the PC powerful forces of...

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video

Posted on July 09, 2008
American University?s Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic and the Center for Social Media have released a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of...

Professional Reading: Open Access as a Public Good

Posted on July 09, 2008
Need something to read on the flight to Portland? You can download John Willinsky's The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT Press, 2005) from the MIT Press site. Also recommended, Danner's (Duke) Applying the...

New Titles from Ashgate

Posted on July 09, 2008
Details below the fold. [JH] The European Union and the Culture Industries: Regulation and the Public Interest edited by David Ward Law at the Vanishing Point: A Philosophical Analysis of International Law by Aaron Fichtelberg Hate on the Net: Extremist...

Opening: Deputy Law Library Director, Loyola New Orleans

Posted on July 09, 2008
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Library invites nominations and applications for the position of Deputy Law Library Director, a tenure-track law library faculty position. The Deputy Director of the Law Library assists the Law Library Director in general...

Jamaica's Justice Minister Highlights Critical Role of Law Librarians at CARALL's Annual Conference

Posted on July 09, 2008
Speaking at the annual conference of the Caribbean Association of Law Librarians (CARALL) earlier this week, Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, highlighted the critical role law librarians play in providing information required in the legal profession...

House of Lords Launches YouTube Channel

Posted on July 09, 2008
In a PR move designed to make it appear more relevant, Britain's House of Lords has launched it's own YouTube channel. Apparently it doesn't work for me because the videos I found interesting were virtual tours of Westminster Hall in...

New Book Exposes History Behind Supreme Court's First State Secrets Case

Posted on July 08, 2008
?Claim of Privilege, by Barry Siegel, is an important and exhaustive look at the [United States v. Reynolds, 345 U.S. 1 (1953), the first case in which the Supreme Court recognized the state secrets privilege] and it conclusively demonstrates that...

A Standard is a Standard is a Standard Unless It's Not Enforced By the ABA

Posted on July 08, 2008
The typical requirements portion of a job ad for an academic law library directorship (sometimes also known as an Associate Dean for Library and Information Services or some variant form) reads something like the University of San Diego School of...

H.R. 6388 Seeks to Strengthen GAO Access to Executive Branch Documents

Posted on July 08, 2008
Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform recently introduced H.R. 6388, the Government Accountability Office Improvement Act of 2008, [Thomas Resources | OpenCongress Resources] to increase the GAO?s ability to obtain executive branch documents...

ABA Library Committee Report on Upcoming Changes in the ABA Questionnaires

Posted on July 08, 2008
Download this report (pdf) to read about the ABA Library Committee's efforts to address the issue of collecting data on electronic titles, future changes in the ABA questionnaires, and the Committee?s next task on library services. [JH]

Searchme Adds Stacks Feature

Posted on July 08, 2008
Searchme is a visual search engine which delivers search results as flowing browsable images of the actual web pages that searchers can check before going directly to the sites. [Click on image, left, for a search shot of a search...

Opening: Reference and International Law Librarian, Boston University Pappas Law Library

Posted on July 08, 2008
The Boston University Pappas Law Library has an opening for a Reference and International Law Librarian. Candidates with appropriate experience will be considered at the Senior level. Training in foreign/comparative/ international legal research (FCIL) will be provided to an otherwise...

Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian, Foreign, University of Denver Sturm College of Law

Posted on July 08, 2008
Reporting directly to the Reference Services Coordinator, the FCIL librarian provides reference & instructional services in international, comparative & foreign law research to students, faculty & alumni of the University of Denver, including academic units outside of the Sturm College...

China's Perspective on Tibet

Posted on July 08, 2008
China and envoys of the Dalai Lama met last week in Beijing to discuss possibly having more discussions about Tibet later this year after the Olympics. Most Americans who know anything about Tibet know only one side of the story:...

JISC's Libraries of the Future Website

Posted on July 08, 2008
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) recently launched Libraries of the Future "to engender discussion about how today's academic and research libraries may evolve to address the needs of future information users." Check it out. [JH]

Summer Reading Requests from the FBI

Posted on July 08, 2008
According to Solicitation Number 0249804, the FBI must want its agents to catch up on their reading this summer. The Agency wants to acquire multiple copies of some 26 titles, including: 180 copies of Terror in the Name of God:...

Google Ordered to Disclose YouTube User Data

Posted on July 07, 2008
A federal judge in New York has ordered Google to turn over to Viacom a database that links users to every video they've watched on YouTube by login name and IP address. In this NPR podcast, Jennifer Urban, director of...

CALI Legal Research Lessons Popular During the Summer

Posted on July 07, 2008
I was pleasantly surprised to see that 5 of the top 10 and 10 of the top 20 CALI lessons viewed during the month of June (listed below) were legal research lessons but I'm scratching my head wondering about who...

Fiddling with the US News Law School Ranking Formula

Posted on July 07, 2008
Gaming US News Rankings by Accepting 1L Transfers Are some law schools gaming US News rankings by accepting a large number of 1L transfers? Check out what Bill Henderson (Indiana), Brian Leiter (Texas) and Larry Ribstein (Illinois) have to say...

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