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Happy Birthday Mark Giangrande!

Posted on March 16, 2010
My co-editor, Mark Giangrande, is enjoying his birthday today by, well, blogging about the FCC's just released broadband plans. See post below. Mark and I go way, way back to the early 1980s. He was attending IIT Chicago Kent Law...

FCC Issues National Broadband Plan

Posted on March 16, 2010
The Federal Communications Commission released its Congressionally mandated National Broadband Plan today. The executive summary came out yesterday. It's a long document, coming in at just under 380 pages. The highlights are faster speeds for everyone and a more dynamic...

Westlaw Knows Where You Live and More, But It Always Did

Posted on March 15, 2010
One of the other changes in Westlaw is the way public documents searches are handled. The WestlawNext concept of searching across databases is now part of Westlaw's PeopleMap. One search will bring all records associated with a person, including assets...

Opening: Faculty Services and Reference Librarian, University at Buffalo Law Library

Posted on March 15, 2010
The University at Buffalo Libraries is seeking applicants for the position of Faculty Services and Reference Librarian (Senior Assistant Librarian) in the Law Library. This is a faculty appointment with rank leading to tenure in an academic research-oriented environment...

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Is OCLC Wexish?

Posted on March 15, 2010
When Jerry Kline of iii fame first released his new bibliographic utility Skyriver back in October 2009, I was a bit annoyed. I was hoping he would have invested energy in making iii a truly "integrated" integrated library system. (I...

Carpe Diem Gen X and Y Law Librarians: You, Too, Shall Practice the Art of the Possible One Day

Posted on March 15, 2010
Have the baby boomers who now run law libraries and who "are about to retire" screwed up the law library field and law library associations, too? Well, of course, we have! Do note, we baby boomers thought our predecessors screwed...

Responses to AALL Annual Meeting Review Special Committee's Follow-up Survey Due by March 17

Posted on March 15, 2010
AALL Annual Meeting Review Special Committee is seeking comments on the the below listed topics as a follow-up to the Committee's survey earlier this year. Comments on any or all of the topics are due by Wednesday, March 17. Program...

Coming to Grips with China's Political System

Posted on March 14, 2010
"Opaque and shrouded in secrecy, China's political system and decision-making processes are mysteries to many Westerners. At one level, China is a one-party state that has been ruled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since 1949. But rather than being...

New York Times Spinning Off Book Review as Separate eReader Product

Posted on March 13, 2010
PoynterOnline is reporting that the New York Times will be offering its Book Review as a separate digital e-reader product, disaggregated from the rest of the Times content for eReaders. NYT will introduce a separate version of its Book Review...

Friday Fun: "You've got seven days, Seinfield. That is one week"

Posted on March 12, 2010
Mr. Bookman lectures Jerry Seinfield about the socio-cultural ramifications of not returning his allegedly overdue book to the New York Public Library in 1971. [JH]

Recovering Online Legal Search Costs as Court-Recognized Attorney Expenses in Canada

Posted on March 12, 2010
In Canada, courts are wrestling with whether court-ordered payment of attorney expenses should include online legal research costs. Yes, they do things differently up north (including citation to numbered paragraphs in a vendor-neutral protocol, but I digress)...

LAW.GOV's Core Specifications Task Force Meeting Set for May 26

Posted on March 12, 2010
From the announcement: Co-Convenors: Vinton G. Cerf (Google), James Stogdill (Accenture) Topic: Core Specifications Task Force Date: May 26, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Location: Downtown, Washington, DC The Core Specifications Task Force is attempting to specify "RFP-Quality" details of...

Follow Changes to Zimmerman's Research Guide on Facebook

Posted on March 12, 2010
You can now follow updates to Zimmerman's Research Guide by joining the Guide's Facebook page. Great idea. [JH]

Opening: Law Librarian for Technical Services, U. S. Court of Appeals Fifth Judicial Circuit, New Orleans

Posted on March 12, 2010
Annual starting salary of approximately $45,125 minimum to a maximum of $87,903 depending on qualifications and experience. Application deadline is Friday, April 2, 2010. Duties include: Performs as a technical services generalist in a variety of law library technical services...

European Parliament Gives ACTA the Cold Shoulder

Posted on March 12, 2010
The European Parliament reacted to the leak of the Internet portion of the Secret ACTA Treaty(TM) that it voted 633 to 13 with 16 abstentions on Wednesday to oppose the treaty. The EP also threatened to sue the European Commission...

What To Do With the Debris of the Shed West Era

Posted on March 11, 2010
Well, if I could afford the postage I would ship the several thousand linear feet of the West titles I've cancelled off to Eagan but since I can't Plan A appears to be recycling because no one wants them. Alternative...

Moving in the Right Direction: Distributing Legal Resources Primarily By Electronic Means, H.R. 4630 Would Eliminate Mandatory Printing of Bills by GPO for the Use of Congress

Posted on March 11, 2010
When the House's health care bill, H.R. 3962, was distributed to its seven sponsors, the GPO printed out a total of 72,450 pages notes Donny Shaw in Should Congress Go Paperless? That's because the GPO was required to send each...

Four Ways to Fix a Broken Legal System: 2010 TED Video of Philip Howard's Presentation

Posted on March 11, 2010
Philip Howard, the founder of Common Good and author of Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law (2009) offered his two-cents at TED this year. [JH]

Reference and Instruction Librarian, Texas Tech University Law Library

Posted on March 11, 2010
The Reference and Instruction Librarian provides instruction, reference, and research services to students, faculty, staff, and other users of the Texas Tech University Law Library. Summary: Texas Tech University Law Library seeks applicants for a Reference and Instruction Librarian...

Disaster Preparation: There's An App For That, Too

Posted on March 11, 2010
Disaster preparedness has been on my mind since August 2006. In my fifth week at University at Buffalo Law Library there was a flood. And another flood less than two years later. Do I dare mention the fire in the...

DRM Single Most Important Factor Hindering eBook Use for Library Patrons

Posted on March 10, 2010
DRM is the single most important factor that hinders eBook use for library patrons according to the 2009 Librarian eBook Survey conducted by Highwire Press. Limited length of access and the inability to lend eBooks via interlibrary loans are the...

Coming Soon, Video.gov?

Posted on March 10, 2010
Nextgov's Aliya Sternstein is reporting that according to Eugene Huang, FCC's director of government performance and civic engagement, a YouTube-like online archive called Video.gov will be among the FCC's broadband plan recommendations when the final draft is report to Congress...

On the Closure of the Guantanamo Detention Center: Legal and Legislative Analysis from CRS

Posted on March 10, 2010
On January 22, 2009 the White House announced that President Barack Obama had signed an order to suspend prosecutions of Guantanamo Bay detainees for 120 days to review all the detainees' cases to determine whether and how each detainee should...

Impressions of the WestlawNext Tour

Posted on March 10, 2010
Today is the day the WestlawNext coming out party hit Chicago. I went to the Hyatt Regency Hotel early this morning for breakfast and the West demo. As one of the first one hundred people to show up I also...

Refusal to Purge Critical Book Review Published in Global Law Books Leads to Libel Charges in French Criminal Court: NYU Law Prof and Editor of EJIL Joseph Weiler Issues Call for Assistance

Posted on March 09, 2010
"On 25 June 2010 I will stand trial before a Paris Criminal Tribunal for refusing to remove a book review written by a distinguished academic to which, however, the author of the book in question took exception. The matter is...

Has Anyone Ever Met a Lawyer or Judge Who Had Received (Let Alone Filled Out) a U.S. News Law School Reputational Survey?

Posted on March 09, 2010
Good question. "We know the response rate to this survey is low--always less than 30%--and, indeed, it is so low that to avoid wild fluctuations in results, U.S. News is now averaging scores for two years in this category," writes...

Don't Kid Yourself, GBS2 is Still Exclusive

Posted on March 09, 2010
"[A]s we examine the settlement's effects and implications, we shouldn't kid ourselves that it's nonexclusive. For good or for ill, it gives Google a unique privilege to sell orphan books" writes New York Law School prof and GBS commentator on...

From Surfing to Browsing Online Legal Search Results (Or How eReader Interfaces Will Eventually Change the Face of Legal Databases Because WestlawNext Flunks the "Next Generation" Test)

Posted on March 08, 2010
When the excitement dies down, WestlawNext will just be Westlaw and New Lexis most likely will just be Lexis. Both will offer improved search engines that will cost more but users' research habits will not change. They will remain what...

New NARA Online Database Makes Federal Agency Records Schedules Publicly Available

Posted on March 08, 2010
Hat tip to ArchiveNext by way of Free Government Information for calling attention to "a records control schedule website that allows the public and Federal agencies to browse scanned copies of unclassified, NARA-approved records control schedules." Link to NARA's searchable...

The Dean Laura N. Gasaway Tribute Symposium: Digital Publication and Libraries Set for March 19

Posted on March 08, 2010
The symposium honors UNC Law Associate Dean and former law library director Lolly Gasaway?s three decades of service to copyright, libraries, and the legal and scholarly community. March 19, 2010 1:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. The Carolina Inn Chapel Hill,...

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