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Georgia State University Hit With Copyright Lawsuit

Posted on April 18, 2008
As a follow-up to our LLB post, Georgia State Sued for Course ePacket Practices, here's the text of the complaint. [RJ]

NISO Forum: Digital Resources: Working with Formats Beyond Serials, May 5-6, 2008

Posted on April 18, 2008
NISO will be hosting a forum on "Digital Resources: Working with Formats Beyond Serials" in San Francisco, CA on May 5-6, 2008. Registration | Visit the event webpage for more information About the Forum: With the onset of the digital...

Reflections on LLB's 1,000,000th Page View

Posted on April 17, 2008
Sometime today Law Librarian Blog should receive its 1,000,000th page view. It's a milestone I have been looking forward to but I don't exactly know why. Except as a marketing metric for advertisers, traffic stats tell us nothing about a...

Professional Reading: Telling Stories to Clients and Students

Posted on April 17, 2008
Check out Steven Johansen's (Lewis & Clark) This is Not the Whole Truth: The Ethics of Telling Stories to Clients [SSRN]. Here's the abstract: This is not the whole truth. Rather, it is a tale of deception. More precisely, it...

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Religion, Politics and Law in Contemporary Islam: Three Recent Titles for Law Library Collections

Posted on April 17, 2008
1. The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State by Noah Feldman List Price: $22.95 Hardcover: 200 pages Publisher: Princeton University Press (March 3, 2008) ISBN-10: 0691120455 ISBN-13: 978-0691120454 Book Description: Western powers call it a threat to democracy...

The Implications of Climate Change Litigation for International Environmental Law-Making

Posted on April 17, 2008
Check out David Hunter's (American University, Washington College of Law) The Implications of Climate Change Litigation for International Environmental Law-Making, available from SSRN. Here's the abstract: Climate advocates are increasingly raising specific climate change concerns before domestic courts, human rights...

Vision 2020: Digital Ubiquity and University Transformation

Posted on April 17, 2008
The University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP) is hosting Vision 2020: Digital Ubiquity & University Transformation: 2008 Higher Education Leadership Summit, August 6-8, 2008. The conference is co-sponsored by Apple...

Crawford on Kindle and eBooks

Posted on April 17, 2008
Walt Crawford, Director and Managing Editor of the PALINET Leadership Network, takes a look at Kindle and eBooks in the April 2008 issue of Cites & Insights. See Old Media/New Media Perspective: Thinking About Kindle and Ebooks [HTML | PDF...

Organizing Digital Research

Posted on April 17, 2008
I've received a few questions lately about how to organize digital research for the academic. The askers have been interested in some product that will allow them to bring together email, web sites, web pages, PDFs, word docs, etc., in...

Harry Potter Trial Wraps

Posted on April 17, 2008
Ongoing WSJ coverage: Court encourages parties to settle here. Partial settlement here. Opinionating by an IP attorney here. Last day here. Who will win? Take the poll and check the comments. [JJ]

Georgia State Sued for Course ePacket Practices

Posted on April 17, 2008
In a complaint filed Tuesday in United States District Court in Atlanta, Cambridge UP, Oxford UP and Sage Publications sued Georgia State University, asserting ?systematic, widespread and unauthorized copying and distribution of a vast amount of copyrighted works? by the...

Managing Online Forums

Posted on April 16, 2008
Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards by Patrick O'Keefe List Price: $24.00 Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: AMACOM (April 10, 2008) ISBN-10: 081440197X ISBN-13: 978-0814401972 Book Description (from the book's website):...

Soros on the Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means

Posted on April 16, 2008
The current crisis marks the end of an era of credit expansion based on the dollar as the international reserve currency. The periodic crises were part of a larger boom-bust process. The current crisis is the culmination of a super-boom...

Professional Reading: Statutory Interpretation in the Context of Federal Jurisdiction

Posted on April 16, 2008
Debra Ly Bassset's (Alabama) Statutory Interpretation in the Context of Federal Jurisdiction is available from SSRN. Here's the abstract: Recently the Supreme Court has suggested that despite the distinctive nature of jurisdictional statutes, such statutes implicate only traditional notions of...

Coerced Evidence Contaminating Judicial System, Undermining Terrorist Prosecutions

Posted on April 16, 2008
New report from Human Rights First: "The introduction of coerced evidence, obtained through the use of official cruelty, into military commission trials at Guantanamo Bay is rapidly contaminating the justice system and jeopardizing the prospects for the successful prosecution of...

Grading the States 2008: A Management Report Card

Posted on April 16, 2008
New report from Governing Magazine: "Information is king. No single idea emerges more clearly from year-long research done for the 2008 Government Performance Project. As always, this report focuses on four fundamental areas of government management: Information, People, Money and...

Alert:Invalid Subpoenas

Posted on April 16, 2008
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has posted an alert that reports have been received of totally bogus e-mail grand jury subpoenas, purportedly sent by a U.S. District Court. The emails are not a valid communication from a federal...

Supreme Court ok's Lethal Execution

Posted on April 16, 2008
By a vote of 7 to 2, the Supreme Court upheld Kentucky?s method of putting criminals to death by lethal injection. Read the opinion, Baze v. Rees (07-5439). See also: Lots of praise for Baze and for capital punishment federalism,...

Tax Day 2008: Free Donuts, Where Your Tax Dollars Go and Tax Astrology Insights

Posted on April 15, 2008
Dunkin' Donuts is offering free donuts with the purchase of any size cup of coffee today! Chow down while wondering where your 2008 tax dollars will go. According to the National Priorities Project, 40 percent of our 2007 income tax...

Indispensable Reference Work for Privacy Lawyers

Posted on April 15, 2008
"An essential volume. [Information Privacy: Statutes and Regulations is] an indispensable reference work for every privacy professional and privacy lawyer." -- Peter Cullen, Chief Privacy Strategist, Microsoft Aspen has published the 2008-2009 edition of Information Privacy: Statutes and Regulations by...

Professional Reading: An Examination of Search Engine Crawler Behavior at Deep and Wide Websites

Posted on April 15, 2008
Site Design Impact on Robots: An Examination of Search Engine Crawler Behavior at Deep and Wide Websites (D-Lib Magazine, March/April 2008) by Joan A. Smith and Michael L. Nelson Abstract: Conventional wisdom holds that search engines "prefer" sites that are...

New GlobaLex Articles

Posted on April 15, 2008
April 2008 GlobaLex features include the following: Towards the Human Rights Protection of Minority Languages in Africa by Innocent Maja Guide to Estonian Legal System and Legal Research by Jannu Kuusik and Kart Miil Researching Ghanaian Law by Victor Essien...

IMLS Announces Results of Study on the Internet's Impact on Museums and Libraries

Posted on April 15, 2008
Findings from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' five 2006 surveys of 1,000 to 1,600 adults reported in InterConnections: A National Study of Users and Potential Users of Online Information (pdf) include the following: Libraries and museums are the...

Ready for those famous library cinema scenes?

Posted on April 15, 2008
In honor of National Library Week EW.com, yes that Entertainment Weekly, brings you the list of top 18 "Sexy Trips to the Library Stacks". A nice montage of library clips in well known movies for a bit of fun this...

J.K. Rowling sues Librarian for Lexicon

Posted on April 15, 2008
It's got everything for a great library drama. Harry Potter... J.K. Rowling... Copyright... Fair Use... and now, a librarian Potter-fan author. Who knew?! Mr. Steven Vander Ark was a librarian at the Byron Center Middle School in Michigan, and the...

A Must-Read, Zittrain's The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It

Posted on April 14, 2008
A superb and alarming discussion, from one of the most astute and forward-looking analysts of the Internet. Zittrain explains how the glorious promise of the Internet might not be realized?and points the way toward reducing the current risks. Absolutely essential...

Asylum Law and Female Genital Mutilation: Recent Developments

Posted on April 14, 2008
New CRS report via Federation of American Scientists: "Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a term encompassing a wide range of procedures that involve the removal or alteration of a woman?s genitalia. The federal courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals...

Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews

Posted on April 14, 2008
Reviews published in the April 7, 2008 issue of InSITE: Canadian Forum on Civil Justice Center on Law and Security Copyfight Food & Water Watch Legislationline [RJ]

Dean Smolla Podcast on Washington & Lee's New 3L Curriculum

Posted on April 14, 2008
Washington & Lee's Dean Rodney Smolla discusses the law school's transformation of its 3L curriculum on the Legal Broadcast Network [mp3 podcast link]. The school is changing the curriculum to focus on professional development through simulated and actual practice experiences...

News from Hein: Google Scholar and YouTube Channel

Posted on April 14, 2008
HeinOnline Weblog is reporting that the entire Law Journal collection will be searchable in Google Scholar by the end of April. HeinOnline launched a YouTube channel last month to provide training videos. At the moment there are four: How to...

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