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EU To Require User Permission for Sites to Load Cookies on a Computer

Posted on March 08, 2010
The European Union recently amended the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications to require web site operators to get permission from users to place a cookie on their machines. At first glance this is another example of the EU protecting...

Round-Up of Law Practitioner Blogs

Posted on March 07, 2010
Immigration Visa Attorney Blog http://www.immigration-visa-attorney-blog.com http://www.immigration-visa-attorney-blog.com/index.xml Examines immigration visa cases, reports and matters in the United States. Published by Sam Shihab & Associates, LLC. Charlotte Divorce Lawyer Blog http://www...

Books Now the Largest Sales Category in the Apple App Store

Posted on March 07, 2010
For the first time in the Apple App Store history, books outnumber games in annual downloads, making books the biggest category in the App store. App Store Data. Hat tip to Mobclix by way of LISNews. [JH]

Questions About Compensation at U Maryland School of Law

Posted on March 07, 2010
There is a story in today's Baltimore Sun that tells a disturbing tale of what may be lax financial accounting at the University of Maryland School of Law. The article describes apparent extraordinary payments to retain the former law school...

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Closed Captioning Coming to YouTube

Posted on March 06, 2010
YouTube is adding closed captioning to videos, at least those in English. The feature is not appearing universally on all videos. As with anything Google, it's an automated process that makes captions happen. Google believes that its speech recognition technology...

Bob Ambrogi's A Chronology of Legal Technology, 1842-1995

Posted on March 06, 2010
Going through some old files, Bob Ambrogi found a chornology of legal technology he compiled in 1995 for a magazine article he wrote back then. It starts with the invention of the fax machine in 1842 and concludes with some...

Supreme Court and the Second Amendment: McDonald Oral Argument Transcript Now Available

Posted on March 06, 2010
The issue presented before the US Supreme Court in McDonald v. City of Chicago (08-1521) is whether the Second Amendment is incorporated into the Due Process Clause or the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment so as to...

U.S. News Responds to the Diversity In Rankings Issue

Posted on March 05, 2010
A full statement from U.S. News on the issue of diversity in law school and its affect on the rankings is here. The response notes the article by Saunder and Espeland reiterates the difficulty of measuring diversity as part of...

Court Denies Nascent Maine Law School Ability for Graduates to Sit for the Bar

Posted on March 05, 2010
The Maine Supreme Court has denied for a second time a petition of the Husson University School of Law to let its students sit for the Maine Bar. This is the second time the petition was denied, with the application...

Reminder: New Name, New Platform, Same Informative Podcasts; Law Librarian Conversations Features LIPA Executive Director Margie Maes This Afternoon

Posted on March 05, 2010
Rich Leiter and Marcia Dority Baker's Law Librarian Conversations (formerly known as The Law Librarian Podcasts) is now being hosted and supported by CALI. Today's program will feature a discussion of developments in preservation with LIPA Executive Director Margie Maes...

Friday Fun: Did You Pick the Right Career?

Posted on March 05, 2010
I've worked with a few law librarians who didn't pick the right career path IMHO (and a few who thought I didn't, too). If you are wondering whether your career choice suits your personality, here a little silliness: 50 sort-of-free...

Is the Case for Cost Recovery Because Online Is More Efficient Than Print Research Persuasive; Is It Even Relevant in the 21st Century?

Posted on March 05, 2010
In the good old days, which for me would be the 1980s when I was a BigLaw firm librarian, firm libraries had several thousand linear feet of shelving filled with books, meaning many thousands of dollars spent to acquire and...

Piracy As a Positive Force for Providing Access to Information

Posted on March 05, 2010
OK, so I have absolutely no programming "chops" to crack DRM and don't even try but then I haven't bought an eReader to read a licensed book because, at least I know "this too shall pass." How? Hackers will break...

Using Twitter to Change Classroom Dynamics

Posted on March 05, 2010
There's an interesting article in Mashable that discusses how Twitter can significantly boost class participation. According to the article, "Twitter is an inexpensive solution to the growing problem of increasing class sizes. It is a tried-and-true platform to let conversations...

Another Twist in the Tenenbaum File Sharing Case

Posted on March 04, 2010
When we last left Joel Tenenbaum and his attorney, Professor Charles Neeson of Harvard, the defendant was arguing for a reduction in damages assessed by the jury. That would be $675,000 for downloading and and further sharing of 30 songs....

Just How Deep Has Google Penetrated the Consciousness of Attorneys When Conducting Legal Research

Posted on March 04, 2010
Greg Lambert reports on attending the The Ark Group/Managing Partner Magazine's 4th Annual "Best Practices & Management Strategies for Law Firm Library & Information Service Centers in his 3 Geeks and a Law Blog post entitled, Ark Conference Review: Lawyers...

Look to Our Canadian Colleagues for Game-Changing Developments

Posted on March 04, 2010
In an earlier post, I mentioned that the legal information professional community can plot the course of legal information content 5-10 years out. Of course, in the US, this assumes the success of LAW.GOV and requires that LAW.GOV's data specifications...

Facebooking Prof Suspended After Venting About Students

Posted on March 04, 2010
Inside Higher Ed reports that a sociology professor named Gloria Gadsden was placed on administrative leave by her employer, East Stroudsburg University, after a student reported two of her Facebook postings which the University interpreted as threats...

Cahn and Carbone's Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture

Posted on March 04, 2010
On Concurring Opinions, Dan Solove interviews the authors of Red Familes v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture (OUP, March 8, 2010), Naomi Cahn (GW Law School) and June Carbone (U. Missouri at Kansas City). Here's a...

Supreme Court Rules in Muchnick Freelance Work Case

Posted on March 03, 2010
Most of the focus yesterday in the Supreme Court was on the arguments for and against Chicago's ban on gun ownership. Most pundits predict the Court will overturn it. However, gun control issues aside, the Court issued an opinion that...

Where Will Information Content Be in Five Years? Ten Years?

Posted on March 03, 2010
"Where will information content be in five years? Ten years? ... [A]fter a long bout of deliberation this evening, I couldn?t really come up with an answer. I think that?s part of our professional problem, really. I can?t think of...

Federal Reserve Explains New Overdraft Rules for Debit and ATM Cards

Posted on March 03, 2010
Your bank will be sending you a notice explaining the Fed's new overdraft rules for debit and ATM cards soon. The new rules require that banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions offer consumers the ability to make decisions about...

Nominations Sought for the 2010 Roy M. Mersky Spirit of Law Librarianship Award for Public Service

Posted on March 03, 2010
Donations to the Mersky Spirit of Law Librarianship Foundation To insure that we can continue to recognize deserving individuals, we encourage donations to the Mersky Spirit of Law Librarianship Foundation. Gifts are tax deductible and can be made to: The...

Government Information as Infrastructure: Call for Comments on LAW.GOV's Legal Sources Inventory (Or How to Help Get the WEXIS Monkey Off Law Students' Backs)

Posted on March 02, 2010
In 2009, TR Legal and LexisNexis US Legal's combined revenue was $5.354 billion with an estimated combined operating profit of $1.61 billion, for a combined 30% profit margin to provide access to primary and secondary legal sources in print and...

Who Do You Trust? Top 20 Most Trusted Companies for Privacy

Posted on March 02, 2010
According to Ponemon Institute?s annual Most Trusted Companies for Privacy Study, the top five are American Express (1st place last year) IBM (3rd last year) Johnson & Johnson (5th last year) Hewlett Packard (6th last year) E-bay (2nd last year)...

NALP Tweaks 2010 Recruiting Season Guidelines

Posted on March 02, 2010
Backing off a plan that would have delayed the summer associate offer process by as many as four months because. according to NALP, "there was no consensus among the membership," the NALP Board of Directors has adopted two tweaks to...

TR Legal a Drag on Thomson Reuters' Bottom Line: Some Thoughts on TR's 2009 Financial Results and 2010 Outlook

Posted on March 01, 2010
Thomson Reuters shareholders are paying about a 12 percent premium versus Reed Elsevier and Wolter Kluwer shareholders but they are not going to like investment houses reaction to TR's 2009 financial report and 2010 guidance reported on Feb. 24th. There...

NARA to Federal Agencies: Cloud Computing Doesn't Trump Record-Keeping Requirements

Posted on March 01, 2010
"The National Archive and Records Administration (NARA) is reminding government agencies to be vigilante of their record keeping as they adopt cloud computing environments," writes Information Week's Elizabeth Montalbano, adding With the Obama administration pushing cloud computing as a major...

Beyond Humanizing: Can and Should Law Schools Strive to Graduate Happy Students?: Call for Proposals for AALS 2011 Conference Program

Posted on March 01, 2010
Three AALS Sections, Balance in Legal Education, Academic Support, and Student Services will be hosting a program entitled "Beyond Humanizing: Can ? and Should ? Law Schools Strive to Graduate Happy Students?" during the 2011 AALS Conference (Jan 5-9th)...

Opening: Two Public Services Librarian Positions, UNC Law Library

Posted on March 01, 2010
The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is now accepting applications for two librarian positions: Reference/Faculty Research Librarian Duties: Coordinate the faculty research service, including the hiring, training and supervision of student...

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