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Gadgets and Gizmos: Personal Electronics and the Library, Library Technology Report and April 22 Webinar

Posted on April 21, 2010
TechSource blogger and library technology expert Jason Griffey has assembled a guide to the present and future of gadgets, and the potential they have for your library in the April 2010 issue of Library Technology Reports, Gadgets and Gizmos: Personal...

Facebook announces big changes - "Open Graph" is here.

Posted on April 21, 2010
During today's Developer's conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced some major changes to the Facebook platform which involve greater integration between it and the web. Dubbed "Open Graph," Zuckerberg describes it this way on the Facebook blog:...

Can Texas court require litigants to file all documents through LexisNexis' "File and Serve?"

Posted on April 21, 2010
Here's an interesting case from Texas involving a class action suit against the Montgomery County courts for requiring litigants in that locale to use LexisNexis's commercial filing feature called "File and Serve" rather than the state's gratis online filing system...

The Long, Hard, Nearly Impossible Climb to Reach Elite Status: Top 30 Law Schools, 2002-2011

Posted on April 20, 2010
According to my back-of-the-envelope calculations only 37 law schools have reached the Top 30 as ranked by US News during the last 10 years. 13 law schools have been ranked in the Top 10 and 24 schools in the Top...

Is it time to eliminate the self-reported employment data from the US News Law School Rankings?

Posted on April 20, 2010
See Chicago law prof Brian Leiter's Move over Ripley! Bob Morse's "Believe It or Not?" ("Perhaps an enterprising journalist will investigate [the unaudited employment data], since U.S. News obviously doesn't care.") [JH]

Opening: Research & Instructional Technology Librarian, Univ. of Maryland Law Library

Posted on April 20, 2010
The Thurgood Marshall Law Library at the University of Maryland School of Law seeks a Research & Instructional Technology Librarian with responsibility for advancing the use of technology in the classroom setting and in faculty scholarship. Demonstrated enthusiasm for promoting...

Toddler Encounters the iPad: How the Next Generation of Readers Will Read

Posted on April 20, 2010
Touch-based interactivity may be taken for granted. Hat tip to LISNews for this delightful video of a two and a half year's first encounter with an iPad. [JH]

Bloggers beware: Viacom doesn't want you using Comedy Central clips without permission.

Posted on April 20, 2010
Viacom, which owns Comedy Central and is currently embroiled in a well publicized lawsuit with YouTube's parent company Google over copyright infringement claims, recently announced that it's going to target bloggers who post unauthorized clips of two of CC's most...

Let's Hope West Is Only Attempting to Play Its Old Trick of Sending Unsolicited Copies of the New KeyRules Series on Law Librarians

Posted on April 19, 2010
Last time I received a requested pricing list for print continuations from West for my little county law library, I spotted two new titles in a series named "KeyRules," both without prices listed. Something free from West? Was I suspicious?...

Amazon: No Kindle eReader Required (Kindle Reading App Now Available for the iPad)

Posted on April 19, 2010
I haven't been keeping up with the whole Kindle craze because I think buying an eReader is pretty silly. So, I haven't been watching the migration of the Kindle platform to other hardware beyond the PC to, for example, the...

Opening: Head of Reference, William Mitchell College of Law

Posted on April 19, 2010
William Mitchell College of Law, founded in 1900, is an independent, private law school located in St. Paul, Minnesota. The largest law school in Minnesota, William Mitchell is known for its pioneering blend of practical education and critical scholarship...

Thomson Reuters Closes Banks-Baldwin Cleveland Suburb Office

Posted on April 19, 2010
The Banks-Baldwin Law Publishing Co. was the oldest law publishing house in the U.S. It was established as Gould & Banks in New York in 1804 to publish law books that would be less expensive that those imported from England....

Some University Networks Cool to iPad

Posted on April 19, 2010
Apple's iPad customers have had generally a good ride with the first batch of product reaching their hands. There have been a few hiccups. Individuals reported that that their immediate experience was that some units had problems with wi-fi connectivity...

Round-Up of Practitioner Blogs

Posted on April 18, 2010
West Virginia Injury Lawyer Blog http://www.westvirginiainjurylawyerblog.com http://www.westvirginiainjurylawyerblog.com/index.xml Discusses injury law cases, reports and opinions in West Virginia. Published by the Wolfe Law Firm. Sacramento Bankruptcy Lawyers Blog http://www...

CWA Union Officer William J. Boarman Nominated for Public Printer of the United States

Posted on April 17, 2010
On April 15, President Obama announced he was nominating William J. Boarman to be the 26th Public Printer of the United States. Boarman?s nomination will be referred to the Senate Rules Committee and must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate....

Ning Transforms from Free to $Fee$

Posted on April 17, 2010
According to Wired's article Ning Fails at Free Social Networking, Ning's 2.3 million networks will evaporate into cloud computing heaven unless Ning network administrators pay for the service or migrate the network to another platform. A Ning Blog post confirmed...

Reminder: Law Librarian Conversations Podcast on Technology Developments and Their Impact on Law Librarians Today

Posted on April 16, 2010
Reserve your seat for this afternoon's Law Librarian Conversations podcast, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT, at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/434480083 Tom Boone, Jason Eiseman and Sarah Glassmeyer will be joining hosts Rich Leiter and Marcia Dority Baker to review news items and...

Friday Fun: "There's a sign-post up ahead. Next stop - The Quiet Zone!"

Posted on April 16, 2010
Here's a great video take-off on the classic television show The Twilight Zone (one of my all-time favs) created by The Actors' and Playwrights' Society at Aurora University (Illinois) to promote a newly designated "quiet zone" in the campus library....

Friday Fun Part II: Using Children's Book Format for Reports (and Instructional Materials) for Lawyers

Posted on April 16, 2010
Greg Lambert uses StoryJumper.com, and a CD-ROM full of clipart to demonstrate how even lawyers can benefit from having their reports formatted as children's books. His topic, the state of BigLaw business based on this report at The BigLaw Firm...

Palfrey: "Libraries must perceive our primary function as serving communities rather than building collections."

Posted on April 16, 2010
"Our information environment, now and in the foreseeable future, is best described as a world of 'digital-plus,'" a hybrid era of print and digital legal materials, writes Harvard's John Palfrey in Cornerstones of Law Libraries for an Era of Digital-Plus...

WestlawNext Embraces the Kindle Platform

Posted on April 16, 2010
From the first issue of the free monthly WestlawNext email newsletter, NEXT.NOTES: Read WestlawNext documents anywhere?send them to your Amazon Kindle Documents, KeyCite results, and result lists can now be delivered from WestlawNext directly to your Amazon Kindle...

Should a University Librarian Have Tenure?

Posted on April 16, 2010
Some at Brandeis University don't think so. More here. [MG]

NJ Rules Attorney-Client Privilege Trumps Corporate Email Policies for Employees

Posted on April 16, 2010
The New Jersey Supreme Court issued and opinion at the end of March that has implications for workplace privacy, particularly in personal emails. The case is Stengart v. Loving Care Agency (A-16-09, March 30, 2010). Marina Stengart filed suit against...

2010 US News Law School Rankings Officially Published

Posted on April 15, 2010
Leaked two days ago, the 2010 US News Law School Rankings are now officially published. Law prof office hours officially canceled for the rest of the week. Meanwhile Northwestern Dean David Van Zandt, one of the most well-known proponents of...

What Would You Like to See Added to HeinOnline?

Posted on April 15, 2010
Hein invites your opinions about the level of priority you would assign for seeing the following resources included in HeinOnline State Attorney General Reports & Opinions Congressional Serial Set Census Historical File Social Security and Health Care Reform British Statutes...

Top 10 Moot Court Rankings for 2009

Posted on April 15, 2010
As compilied by Brian Koppen's Law School Advocacy, here's the Top 10 Moot Court Rankings for 2009: 1. South Texas 2. Texas Tech 3. Loyola - Chicago 4. John Marshall - Chicago 5. California - Hastings 6. Seton Hall 7....

Your WestlawNext License Can Be Just Like Your Westlaw License. Part III: Is That Enough?

Posted on April 14, 2010
Unfortunately the West rep is a bit of a marked man or woman. In addition to the substantially less than "rock-solid and sharp" WLN pricing information generated by TR Legal's marketing debacle, the backlash from the unrelenting 12-13-14% nominal annual...

NYU and Harvard Sponsor Conference on the Future of Law Schools: Some Thoughts

Posted on April 14, 2010
There are a number of stories in the press lately about the place of law schools in society, some driven by reports on the law school conference held last week at New York University, co-sponsored with Harvard, called Future Ed:...

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