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Resource to find free online textbooks

Posted on February 09, 2010
From the Chronicle of Higher Ed: A new Web site, Open Educational Resources Center for California, brings together information on free and open textbooks and course materials in one location. Though the Web site was designed for California's community-college faculty...

Are Law Librarians Who Accept Vendor Swag Committing Ethically Questionable Acts?

Posted on February 08, 2010
When Sarah Glassmeyer announced she was going to auction the proceeds of her unsolicited WestlawNext iPod Nano, I thought and wrote "good for Sarah." At the same time, I thought it was fine by me if anyone accepted similar vendor...

Innocence Project Report on the First 250 DNA Exonerations in the US

Posted on February 08, 2010
Coinciding with the 250th Innocence Project client being exonerated through DNA evidence, The Project released 250 Exonerated, Too Many Wrongfully Convicted on Feb. 4, 2010. The 55-page report details each one of the 250 DNA exoneration cases and includes statistics...

Stanford Signs Up as a Fully Participating Library Under GBS2

Posted on February 08, 2010
To hell with the doubters and critics and the DOJ 's concerns. Either not willing to wait for GBS2's resolution in court or signaling expectations as to its likely outcome, Stanford University recently announced that it has become a Fully...

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"Justice Antonin Scalia, is neither an intellectual nor a primitive. He is both."

Posted on February 08, 2010
While some speculate on whether the Obama Administration will be filling one (Justice Stevens) or two (Justice Ginsburg) SCOTUS vacancies in the near future (and after President Obama's State of the Union criticism of the Court's ruling in Citizen's United...

Time to Play FantasySCOTUS

Posted on February 08, 2010
If the Saints can win the Super Bowl, can the Chicago Cubs win the World Series in 2010? One can only dream. Until then, football season is over and cabin fever is setting in. Time to play what CNN calls...

I'm Old, So I Guess I Blog

Posted on February 08, 2010
The Pew Internet & American Life Project last week released another study in how Americans use the Internet. The latest survey shows that that teens and young adults have moved to mostly to wireless access via cellphones and laptops. The...

Bezos on Officially Not Embarrassing Kindle Sales: "It's Been an Exciting 27 Months"

Posted on February 07, 2010
"Millions of people now own Kindles," said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. "And Kindle owners read, a lot. When we have both editions, we sell 6 Kindle books for every 10 physical books. This is year-to-date and includes...

Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For

Posted on February 07, 2010
Article, methodology and complete ranking. See also the Best Perks List, which includes companies that pay 100% of their employees' health-care premiums, provides onsite child-care facilities, plus some usual perks, such as Qualcomm's on-site farmers market...

The FBI Wants Your Web History, But It Always Wanted Your Web History

Posted on February 07, 2010
Who needs circulation records? The FBI is again leaning on Internet service providers to retain customer logs of web use for a significant length of time. This would be include origin and destination information but not necessarily content at those...

Do You Google? The Search Giant Discovers Advertising

Posted on February 07, 2010
On this Superbowl Sunday, treated by some as a holiday weekend, Google CEO Eric Schmidt tweeted to the effect that the company would run an ad during the third quarter of the game. The ad in question is suspected to...

Behind the Scenes Look at Common Craft Video Production

Posted on February 06, 2010
Ever wonder how the very creative folks at Common Craft produce their "Plain English" videos like this one on cloud computing? Check out their blog post, Scenes from a Common Craft Video Shoot. [JH]

THOMAS Expanding Archival Coverage

Posted on February 06, 2010
The January 5th Holiday Message from the Law Librarian of Congress is cited on this blog in conjunction with the LLC's support of Law.Gov. One additional point in the message (pages 3-4) that is worth mentioning is the LLC's collaboration...

More Publishers Balk at Amazon Pricing for e-Books

Posted on February 05, 2010
Amazon's problems with publishers over e-book pricing continues with Hachette joining HarperCollins and Macmillan position that the $9.99 pricing model promoted by Amazon doesn't value digital books properly. As Amazon gave into Macmillan, though final terms are still in negotiation,...

Friday Fun: Pee-Wee Herman Gets an iPad!

Posted on February 05, 2010
Link to the video. Hat tip to Steve Jobs. Ah, iSlate would have been a wee bit better name. [JH]

Digital-Only: The Shed West Era Has Been Officially Institutionalized in the Legal Academy

Posted on February 05, 2010
Following the lead established by large law firm libraries a decade ago, the Shed West Era has been institutionalized by law school libraries (and public libraries). It's now "official." After substantial print cancellations that would have made John West shed...

Fair Use, My Ass: Tools to Identify Content Scrapers Without Permission Given

Posted on February 05, 2010
I used to be annoyed when a certain academic law librarian, who presumably knew something about copyright law, scraped the entire content of some blog posts I wrote and republished them with attribution but not with permission on his law...

WordPress for Library 2.0: Save the Date for Feb. 10 Webinar

Posted on February 05, 2010
LLB and some 40-plus other Law Professor Blogs Network destinations are hosted by TypePad and TypePad, after far too much unnecessary pain to paying subscribers, has migrated to a new platform that offers works most of the time and offers...

DOJ Still Has Problems With the Google Book Settlement, But Wants to Resolve Them

Posted on February 04, 2010
The U.S. Department of Justice has weighed in again on the Google Book Settlement. According to the press release, there are still antitrust issues that remain, though the Department remains committed to working with the parties to resolve those issues...

Get Ready for the Google Pad

Posted on February 04, 2010
The security around the Apple's iPad design and features was immense despite the fact that many commentators knew something like it was coming. There were plenty of clues floating around, such as the Apple - AT&T connection for 3G support,...

Thomson Reuters Buys Super Lawyers

Posted on February 04, 2010
Thomson Reuters has acquired Super Lawyers [press release], probably a dream come true for the owners of the service that has been providing consumer-oriented rankings of "Super Lawyers" and "Rising Stars" by state since 2003. Super Lawyer also publishes a...

"West needs to get the sample [WestlawNext] passwords out ...

Posted on February 04, 2010
... to the academic librarians." Betsy McKenzie explains why: The folks who saw [Cobalt] at Legal Tech were much less than wowed. I don't know what happened at Legal Tech but it's too bad because it's a very important advance...

Help Wanted (and Needed): Vice-President/President-Elect, Secretary, Two Board Members

Posted on February 04, 2010
AALL's Nominations Committee is looking for a few good law librarians to be nominated as candidates for the 2010 AALL Executive Board election for the offices of vice president/president-elect, secretary, and two Executive Board members. The Committee is accepting nominations...

Hirtle's Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States Chart Updated

Posted on February 04, 2010
Peter Hirtle, Senior Policy Advisor in the Cornell University Library and member of the Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Advisory Board, has updated his very useful Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States chart. Among the changes,...

AAUP Launches New Journal of Academic Freedom

Posted on February 04, 2010
The American Association of University Professors has launched a new Journal of Academic Freedom. "Scholarship on academic freedom?and on its relation to shared governance, tenure, and collective bargaining?is typically scattered across a wide range of disciplines...

More gangsters take part in social networking

Posted on February 04, 2010
Following up yesterday's story about a English gangsterusing his Facebook account to threaten witnesses from jail come this report courtesy of SiliconValley.com reporting that domestic gang members are hopping on the social networking bandwagon too. While using Twitter and Facebook...

"This is so ? human." Giant Brain WestlawNext "Free" Stuff

Posted on February 03, 2010
Jason Wilson reviews his free WestlawNext ... well in his own words: One interesting thing I noticed about the Device was the fact that it had a label ?2gb? on the backside. The instructions don?t say what this means, but...

UMass-Dartmouth to Offer Accelerated Law Degree Program

Posted on February 03, 2010
Following up on Mark's earlier post today about the state Board of Higher Education unanimously approving the creation of Massachusetts? first public law school by way of UMass-Dartmouth acquiring the assets of Southern New England School of Law, the Boston...

Massachusetts Finally Gets Its Public Law School

Posted on February 03, 2010
Despite the intense lobbying against the idea from competitors, Massachusetts will get its public law school after all. The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education unanimously approved UM-Dartmouth to offer J.D. Degrees, clearing the way for the University to accept the...

LLMC Digital Makes Haitian Legal Collection A Priority

Posted on February 03, 2010
Below is the text of a February 2, 2010 e-mail to IALL from LLMC's Director of Content Development, Jerry Dupont: Dear IALL Colleagues: On the theory of everybody doing what they can, we at LLMC have decided that the most...

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