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Association of Research Librarians says "open access is inevitable"

Posted on February 22, 2010
A panel discussion at a Washington D.C. meeting of the Association of Research Librarians says that free, public access to research is inevitable. I now believe that having public access to most scholarly communications is inevitable," said David Shulenburger, vice...

No Velvet Divorce from the Union for Texas or Georgia

Posted on February 22, 2010
51% or Texas Republicans think it's a good idea to succeed from the Union. 32% of Republicans in Georia also are ready to pack up and leave. Sore losers. Eugene Volokh writes "let me stress that I think that modern...

Law Review Subscriptions Down and the Job Market is Still Bad Says NLJ

Posted on February 22, 2010
The National Law Review (subscription required) has two items of interest. The first item is that law school law reviews are losing circulation. The article, Study Finds Sharp Decline in Law Review Circulation, states typical or expected reasons why physical...

Meet "Johnny and Jennie Westlaw"

Posted on February 22, 2010
Johnny and Jenny Westlaw are "continu[ing] their cross-country trek for WestlawNext." You can view their videos, answer a trivia question and, if you are the lucky weekly winner, get Starbucks gift cards here. Yes, they are really labeled "Johnny and...

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Thomson Reuters = TEASER

Posted on February 22, 2010
Some of you might remember the announcement about a new American Law Reports series that was released a few weeks ago. I know it might have gone unnoticed with all the ridiculous cloak and dagger hype surrounding WestlawNext (honestly, have...

You Might Want to Stay off Facebook if You are Separated or Going Through a Divorce

Posted on February 21, 2010
According to an American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers survey, 81% of AAML members cited an increase in the use of compromising evidence from social networking websites during the past five years. Facebook is the primary source of this type of...

Round-up of Practitioner Blogs

Posted on February 20, 2010
Florida Patent Lawyer Blog http://www.floridapatentlawyerblog.com http://www.floridapatentlawyerblog.com/index.xml Examines patent law cases, news and reports in Florida. Published by the Office Of Mark Terry, Esq. Immigration Lawyer Blog http://www.immigrationlawyerblog...

Creating the TED Experience for Librarians

Posted on February 20, 2010
From the TEDx Librarians site: TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a...

Friday Fun: Stephen Colbert on Citizen's United v. Federal Election Commission

Posted on February 19, 2010
Better than Obama's State of the Union commentary on the SCOTUS ruling. [JH] The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word - Prece-Don't www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Economy

Reminder: WestlawNext Featured Topic in Law Librarian Blogtalkradio Program Today

Posted on February 19, 2010
The Law Librarian Blogtalkradio program will discuss WestlawNext, NCCUSL and other timely topics of concern to law libraries, law librarians, legal bibliography and the profession during today's episode at 2:00 PM Central. The call-in number during the live broadcast is...

David Leonard, 1952 - 2010

Posted on February 19, 2010
In a very sad first for the Law Professor Blogs Networkcommunity, Colin Miller (John Marshall Law School, Chicago) reports on the death of his mentor, colleague and EvidenceProf Blog contributing editor, David Leonard, Associate Dean for Research and member of...

Facebook and Google Buzz Hit With Class Action Lawsuits Over Privacy Issues

Posted on February 19, 2010
Facebook's New Default Privacy Settings. A class action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that site's new default privacy settings are "materially deceptive, confusing and ineffective" at guarding personal information by exposing users'...

Belated Happy 8th Birthday to Unshelved!

Posted on February 19, 2010
Unshelved, the library comic strip, celebrated its eight anniversary on February 17th. Congratulations to Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes for consisting giving librarians something to laugh about. Check the email subscription link on their website for regular updates...

Dear Anne, Why Not Start Filling in Gaps in WestlawNext Information by Joining The Law Librarian Program Today?

Posted on February 19, 2010
Anne Ellis announced she was joining the blogosphere via TR's Legal Current blog on Feb. 15 in a listserv announcement [LLB post], saying We will continue to scan the blogs and listservs for comments that reveal gaps in the discussion,...

Kindle for BlackBerry Now Available for US Customers

Posted on February 19, 2010
Amazon has released its new, free Kindle for BlackBerry app for the BlackBerry Curve 8520 and 8900, Bold 9000 and 9700, Storm 9530/Storm2 9550 and the Tour 9630. Details and download here. [JH]

Clayton Miller's "Crazy Summer Project to Reinvent Desktop Human-Computer Interaction:" 10/GUI

Posted on February 18, 2010
To date touch-screen desktop computing just doesn't seem to be the way to go. Why? Besides the smudges on the screen from PB&J eating users, there's the more fundamental matter of ergonomic design. See, e.g., Michael Arrington's Why Desktop Touch...

NYC Law Librarians Save the Date: The LAW.GOV Movement Moves to Its Next Forum

Posted on February 18, 2010
When and where: Liberating Legal Information: The Law.Gov Movement A Panel Discussion with Carl Malamud, Helen Nissenbaum, and Nicholas Bramble February 24, 2009 6:15-8 PMm New York Law School Room A700 From the announcement: Law.Gov builds on the success of...

The Case of Racial Bias by Judges in Court Rulings

Posted on February 18, 2010
In Race & Gender of Judges Make Enormous Differences in Rulings, Studies Find, Edward A. Adams, reports in the ABA Journal on recent research discussed at an ABA Midyear Meeting program entitled ?Diversity on the Bench: Is the ?Wise Latina?...

GBS2: Reback on Why the Technology Sector Should Care About Google Books

Posted on February 18, 2010
The GBS2 Fairness Hearing is set for today. No live blogging expected because of court restrictions but watch The Laboratorium for James Grimmelmann's comments this evening. Until then, here is the Open Book Alliance's Gary Reback TechCrunch post entitled Why...

AALL's Draft Strategic Directions Statement for 2010-2013: Good Job as Long as It Does Not End Here

Posted on February 17, 2010
In case you missed it, AALL announced the release of its draft 2010-2013 AALL Strategic Directions last week. The draft statement is republished below along with our association's 2005-2010 Strategic Directions for side-by-side comparisons. Draft 2010-2013 AALL Strategic Directions (text)...

Reaffirming Law Librarians' Role as Stewards of Information

Posted on February 17, 2010
In "Preserving Born-Digital Legal Materials - Where to Start?" [VoxPopuLII, reprinted in LRRX], Sarah Rhodes, Digital Collections Librarian, Georgetown Law Library, and a project coordinator for The Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive, writes I firmly believe that law libraries must...

Opening: Head of Research and Instructional Services, UNLV

Posted on February 17, 2010
The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Boyd School of Law invites applications for the position of Head of Research and Instructional Services at the Wiener-Rogers Law Library. This is a Library faculty tenure-track position at the assistant professor level...

Amended GBS Hearing On Tommorow As Planned, So Far

Posted on February 17, 2010
It looks as if the hearing on the Amended Google Book Settlement is going forward tomorrow as planned. Though the usual suspects still object to Google's vision for making scanned titles available, and though the Department of Justice is still...

Law Librarians Overwhelming Support LAW.GOV: Results of LLB Poll

Posted on February 16, 2010
I think it is fair to say based on LLB's utterly unscientific poll that law librarians overwhelming support the LAW.GOV project. I doubt my argument for answering the poll in the affirmative was needed to persuade almost 88% of the...

The International Amateur Scanning League Has Been Launched

Posted on February 16, 2010
The International Amateur Scanning League is an experiment in volunteer-based crowd-sourced digitization to help government and other institutions make their archives more widely available with access to NARA?s collection just the start of the effort...

King County Law Library (Washington State) Appoints Interim Director

Posted on February 16, 2010
The King County Law Library Board has announced that Rita Dermody was appointed Interim Librarian and Director of the King County Law Library, effective February 1, 2010, and Richard Stroup has been appointed Assistant Interim Director. Both are long-time King...

Got Messier Desk?

Posted on February 15, 2010
Being a good public employee, I am enjoying the Presidents' Day holiday by having the day off. But knowing that many legal information professionals are working as hard as ever today, I thought LLB could offer some solace by way...

Help Save My Marriage By Friend-ing My Blog Widow's Facebook Page

Posted on February 15, 2010
My Valentine?s Day present did not meet with the delighted reception I had hoped from my blog widow. Like way wasn't she delighted with the new wireless router I bought her? Details here. So this is my desperate plea to...

CRS Reports Now on LexisNexis Congressional.

Posted on February 15, 2010
I'll easily admit that I'm one of the last people to discover that publications get added to databases. Take Congressional Research Service Reports. Did anyone notice that they were added to LexisNexis Congressional (formerly Congressional Universe) in a full text...

West on Filling in Gaps in WestlawNext's Rollout, Marketing and Sales Information: Blogging in Reaction to Blogging by Legal Information Professionals

Posted on February 15, 2010
Anne Ellis distributed the below "Dear Colleagues" message on AALL listservs this morning. It indicates that the folks in the land of 10,000 invoices are closely following bloggers and listservs to identify "gaps" in the WestlawNext discussion. By gaps is...

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