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Impact and Policy Implications of Spyware on Consumers and Businesses

Posted on July 07, 2008
Hearing from the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation: "The hearing will examine the impact of spyware on computer performance and privacy and security risks associated with this software. The Committee will review current action by the Federal...

Opening: Reference Librarian, Diamond Law Library at Columbia University

Posted on July 07, 2008
The Diamond Law Library at Columbia University has an opening for a Reference Librarian. Reference Librarians provide general and in-depth reference service in Anglo-American, international and foreign law to faculty, students and others at the Law School Library; and share...

AALL Children's Book Drive in Portland

Posted on July 07, 2008
A Book for Every Child For the past nine years, AALL members have shared the joy of reading with children in AALL host cities. In our tenth year, we are helping children and teenagers in the greater Portland area through...

Privatizing War in Iraq

Posted on July 06, 2008
Fred Smoler reviews recent books on private military forces, listed below, in Dissent. Hat tip to Frank Pasquale (Seton Hall) Concurring Opinions. [JH] Blackwater: The Rise of the World?s Most Powerful Mercenary Army Jeremy Scahill Nation Books, 2007 464 pp...

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Top Interrogators Declare Torture Ineffective in Intelligence Gathering

Posted on July 06, 2008
New report from WorldPublicOpinion.org: "A WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 19 nations finds that in 14 of them most people favor an unequivocal rule against torture, even in the case of terrorists who have information that could save innocent lives. Four nations...

Trafficking in Persons Report 2008

Posted on July 05, 2008
From the State Department: "The Department of State is required by law to submit a Report each year to the U.S. Congress on foreign governments? efforts to eliminate severe forms of trafficking in persons. This Report is the eighth annual...

Commission on the Status of Women Report

Posted on July 05, 2008
From the UN Pulse: "The report of the 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is now available (E/2008/27-E/CN.6/2008/11). The report includes the agreed conclusions on financing gender equality and the empowerment of women and draft...

On Reading the Declaration of Independence

Posted on July 04, 2008
Drafting the Declaration. On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston as a committee to draft a declaration of independence. In 1823 Jefferson wrote that the other members of the...

Lessig on the Declaration of Independence

Posted on July 04, 2008
In this keynote talk at Personal Democracy Forum 2008: Rebooting the System, Lawrence Lessig (Stanford) offers a fresh interpretation of the Founders' vision of American government as one whose representatives would stand independent of corrupting influences, and calls for a...

Fourth of July Reading: Is It Time to Reboot Democracy?

Posted on July 04, 2008
Rebooting Democracy: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age, an anthology of 44 relatively short essays, was released at Rebooting the System, the fifth annual conference sponsored by the Personal Democracy Forum. You can read the articles online,...

Friday Fun on Thursday: The Portable Microfiche Reader!

Posted on July 03, 2008
The author of a 1968 government report (pdf) proposed a portable microfiche reader that is surprising similar in design to modern eBook readers. The device would have been small enough to read mocrofiche on planes, in the office, even in...

Librarians, Authors, and Publishers Weigh the Chilling Effects of Libel Tourism

Posted on July 03, 2008
Interesting article from the Chronicle: "When the College Art Association decided recently to settle rather than fight a possible libel action in Britain over a book review published in one of its journals, it did more than sidestep a costly...

Michigan Law Review's 2008 Survey of Books Related to the Law

Posted on July 03, 2008
This year's survey of law books published by the Michigan Law Review, 106 Mich. L. Rev. 901 (2008), covers recent publications in the areas of administrative law, comparitive law, and international law, plus two very interesting reviews of classic literary...

World Health Statistics 2008

Posted on July 03, 2008
New report from the World Health Organization: "World Health Statistics 2008 presents the most recent health statistics for WHO?s 193 Member States. This fourth edition includes 10 highlights in health statistics, as well as an expanded set of over 70...

Yee's Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services

Posted on July 03, 2008
Interest in social computing in libraries is growing as more and more law libraries are implementing various Web 2.0 technologies largely by installing or using service providers for the establishment of blogs, wikis, etc. We can call these experiments in...

Opening: Reference and Electronic Services Librarian, Boston University Law Library

Posted on July 03, 2008
The Boston University Law Library has an opening for a Reference and Electronic Services Librarian. Candidates with appropriate experience will be considered at the senior level. RESPONSIBILITIES: Under the direction of the Head of Reference Services, this position will have...

Opening: Emerging Technologies Librarian, Brooklyn Law School Library

Posted on July 03, 2008
Brooklyn Law School Library seeks a dynamic Emerging Technologies Librarian to implement new technology and to provide electronic services to support the library?s research, reference and instruction programs. This librarian will: serve as the department?s webmaster; coordinate and facilitate the...

Greenhouse's Final New York Times Articles

Posted on July 03, 2008
In what might be her final articles for the New York Times, Linda Greenhouse discusses the recent Second Amendment SCOTUS decision at Justices Rule for Individual Gun Rights. (For more on District of Columbia v. Heller, see LLB's earlier post:...

Library to Host a "Change Your Name" Workshop

Posted on July 02, 2008
In interesting news the West Virginia State Law Library recently hosted a workshop to help patrons learn how to change their name for "marriage, adoption, and other situations". I thought of this as an interesting idea to bring patrons into...

Weird Wedding Laws Still on the Books

Posted on July 02, 2008
My favorite: In New Orleans, it is illegal for anyone claiming to be a palm reader, fortune teller, mystic healer or any other magic-possessing hoodwinker to offer up marriage services. More at Mental Floss. [JH]

Professional Reading: Warming Up to User-Generated Content

Posted on July 02, 2008
Edward Lee (OSU) has posted Warming Up to User-Generated Content in SSRN. The article will appear in the University of Illinois Law Review. Here's the abstract for this very interesting article: The most significant copyright development of the twenty first...

FOMC's Greenbooks, Bluebooks and Other Resources From 1978-2002 Now Online

Posted on July 02, 2008
From the press release: The Federal Reserve Board's website now features convenient access to historical documents of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) for the years 1978 through 2002. Greenbooks, Bluebooks, and other documents related to FOMC meetings join the...

Webcast of Symposium on Online Consultation and Public Policy Making

Posted on July 02, 2008
The archived webcast of the March 14, 2008 Symposium on Online Consultation and Public Policy Making: Democracy, Identity, and New Media can be viewed here. The Symposium, sponsored by I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society,...

The Role of the Internet in Consumer Research and Purchasing Decisions

Posted on July 02, 2008
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has published The Internet and Consumer Choice: Online Americans use different search and purchase strategies for different goods (pdf). The study tracks the decision-making processes for buying music, purchasing a cell phone, and...

Openings (Possibly Two): Law Librarian, CUNY School of Law

Posted on July 02, 2008
We are currently seeking at least one, but possibly two enthusiastic, energetic candidates dependent on funding, who are willing to be an integral part of the library management team at CUNY School of Law. The successful candidates will be joining...

Opening: Research Librarian, Arizona Office of the Auditor General

Posted on July 02, 2008
The Office of the Auditor General is accepting applications for the position of Research Librarian. This is a full-time position and the responsibilities include: Identifying, classifying, analyzing and interpreting large amounts of research to develop criteria for reports or other...

Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries

Posted on July 01, 2008
Strategies for Sustaining Digital Libraries (2008), a collection of essays edited by Katherine Skinner and Martin Halbert is now available from Emory University Libraries. From the introduction: "We are at the inception of a new field ? that of digital...

Just Released, Monica Parker's The Unhappy Lawyer

Posted on July 01, 2008
The Unhappy Lawyer: A Roadmap to Finding Meaningful Work Outside of the Law by Monica Parker List Price: $14.95 Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Sphinx Publishing; 1 edition (July 1, 2008) ISBN-10: 1572486708 ISBN-13: 978-1572486706 Description: For lawyers who want to...

Grading the States 2008 Report

Posted on July 01, 2008
New report from the Pew Center on the States: "As a vital component of Pew?s efforts to foster effective solutions to some of America?s most pressing challenges, the Government Performance Project?s Grading the States 2008 report is an assessment of....

Check out ReliefWeb

Posted on July 01, 2008
From the UN Pulse: "ReliefWeb is an on-line gateway to information, including documents and maps, on humanitarian emergencies and disasters. The maps are often very detailed and may provide information about refugee camps or other relevant details for the emergency...

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