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Got an Free WestlawNext iPod Nano? Want to Buy or Sell One for a Good Cause?

Posted on February 03, 2010
Sarah Glassmeyer, Reference and Access Services Librarian at the University of Kentucky College of Law, was, to quote, "absolutely livid" when she opened her FedEx package to find an iPod Nano sent to her by West along with some literature...

A Little (Very Little) Something New from Lexis: Lexis for Microsoft Office

Posted on February 03, 2010
"New Lexis" isn't ready for prime time so the less than buzz worthy "Lexis for Microsoft Office" was featured at LegalTech New York. Lexis for Microsoft Office will launch for Microsoft Office 2007 in the Spring of 2010, and will...

A Suggestion for Google SLOJ: How About Adding Google's Wonder Wheel?

Posted on February 03, 2010
In May of 2009 Goggle release a display option called Google Wonder Wheel. It's a mind mapper that shows potentially relevant linked search terms related to your initial search. To use the Wonder Wheel, click on the "Show Options" link...

Sudoku-Lovers Alert: Third-Party Apps Coming to Kindle

Posted on January 31, 2010
Amazon has announced that a limited beta of the Kindle Development Kit (KDK) will launch next month. [Amazon's KDK beta site] Tech Gear News' Tim Conneally observes that developers will face a number of unique problems including Kindle's slow refresh...

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The Reality Distortion Field of iPad Unit Sales Forecasts from Financial Analysts

Posted on January 31, 2010
Long-time Apple watcher Philip Elmer-DeWitt has collected some financial house estimates for iPad unit sales for 2010 and 2011. Do note that they use different time periods, e.g, calendar year, fiscal year, 12-months from first sale. Be advised that with...

Round-Up of Practitioner Blogs

Posted on January 30, 2010
California Repossession Law Blog http://www.californiarepossessionlaw.com http://www.californiarepossessionlaw.com/index.xml Discusses repossession laws, opinions and legislation in California. Published by Anderson, Oglivie & Brewer, LLC. Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog http://www...

Internet 2009, Just the Stats Please

Posted on January 30, 2010
How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? How many new webservers? Plus browser share, social media, images and video viewed online... Royal Pingdom has compiled the stats for 2009 Internet usage....

Friday Fun: If your idea of "fun" is watching burly campus security officers getting Tasered

Posted on January 29, 2010
Here's a video from Oklahoma City University showing its on-campus police force getting trained in the use of Tasers. Part of that training includes getting a chance to "ride the lightening" themselves that's, I guess, part of some sort of...

The Non-Disclosure Agreements Have Expired: Amateur Fluff Being Replaced by Informed Commentary on WestlawNext by Legal Information Professionals

Posted on January 29, 2010
While some may have been miffed about having to sign a confidentiality agreement with West to get a sneak peak at WestlawNext earlier this week in Eagan while West gave the ABA Journal and the New York Times "exclusive" interviews,...

Need Legal Research? There's going to be a Fastcase app for that

Posted on January 29, 2010
It's waiting final approval from Apple but once available, the Fastcase iPhone app will be a free download and will provide access to the largest free collection of online primary legal resources available on the iPhone. Check out Bob Ambrogi's...

A Quick Look at Prison Law Blog

Posted on January 29, 2010
The days of law librarians trying to figure out what's needed for the development and support of prison law libraries, where mandated by law, are pretty much over (I think). The correctional iterations of WEXIS services that lock down access...

File Sharing Case Likely to Go to Third Trial

Posted on January 29, 2010
The latest twists and turns in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset file sharing case indicate that a third trial is on the horizon. When we last left the parties, the judge in the case lowered damages from the jury award of $1.92...

AALL Leadership Award Deadline Fast Approaching

Posted on January 29, 2010
The AALL Executive Board has approved celebrating the contributions of newer law librarians by providing "The Emerging Leader Award." The award honors members of AALL in their first 10 years of law library experience who have made a significant contribution...

PreCYdent: 2006 - 2009

Posted on January 28, 2010
If you haven't already done so, it's time to update your finding aids for free online legal search services. PreCYdent is no longer. Lack of funds. On several occasions, I've written about PreCYdent because it offered, in my opinion, one...

Advanced Search Techniques for Congressional Documents on FDsys

Posted on January 28, 2010
Check out Peggy Garvin's latest The Governmant Domain column on LLRX, Congressional Documents on FDsys: Advanced Techniques. The article provides an update of her earlier LRRX column, Congressional Documents on FDsys: the Basics and introduces more advanced search techniques for...

Transitioning to Semantic Web-Friendly Library Catalogs

Posted on January 28, 2010
Karen Coyle analyzes the current state of library catalog data in the January 2010 issue of Library Technology Reports, Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata. In this report she offers a history of bibliographic data from its origins...

Opening: Research Librarian (PTE), SCOTUS

Posted on January 28, 2010
The Supreme Court of the United States has an opening for a part-time (30 hours per week) research librarian. Here's the position announcement. Do note that the closing date is Feb. 16, 2010. Editor's Note: Alas, I only really productive...

A better spam filter is on its way

Posted on January 28, 2010
Researchers in California have come up with a better mousetrap when it comes to spam. According to the Chronicle of Higher Ed: Most spam e-mail messages are transmitted using a few infected computers that use a template-based system. The new...

Some Thoughts on the iPad

Posted on January 28, 2010
There's a lot of ink spread out there about the iPad, even before it was released. Rumors, constant rumors, flooded tech sites over the device's capabilities. Unverified pictures of prototypes showed up on various tech web sites. The situation was...

Correction: Archived Webcast of UT School of Law's Conference on Judicial Biography and the Supreme Court Will Be Available

Posted on January 28, 2010
The UT School of Law will host a Conference on Judicial Biography and the Supreme Court on Friday, January 29, 2010, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Held in memory of Professor Roy M. Mersky, the longtime director of the...

LLB Poll: Should We Support LAW.GOV?

Posted on January 27, 2010
As legal information professionals, as legal documentation stewards and legal information access advocates, do we not support LAW.GOV? Online Surveys & Market Research A Case for Answering in the Affirmative. Everything we do as professional law librarians flows from being...

Back-of-the-Envelope Calculations for New York Time's Catch-22 Pay Wall Plans

Posted on January 27, 2010
The New York Times plans to charge frequent visitors to its website sometime next year, reportedly along the lines of the Financial Times metered billing system. FT charges visitors who access their site more than 10 times a month. In...

Tech Trends and Forecasts: Past, Current, Future

Posted on January 27, 2010
An assessment by Walt Crawford, published in the Feb. 2010 issue of Cites & Insights. Complete issue here. [JH]

A Kindle From 1911: Thomas Edison's Nickel (Not 5-cents) Books

Posted on January 27, 2010
In a 1911 issue of Cosmopolitan, Thomas Edison offered his vision of 40,000-page books that would be two inches thick and weigh a pound because their pages would be made of nickel, not paper. Hat tip to the Technologizer's Mr....

Introducing the iPad

Posted on January 27, 2010
See for yourself via New York Times. [BA]

Inside Look at the WestlawNext and "New Lexis" Platforms

Posted on January 26, 2010
Check out Jill Schachner Chanen's ABA Journal feature, Exclusive: Inside the New Westlaw, Lexis & Bloomberg Platforms. The article is the I've seen that offers some details and comparisons of the redesigns WEXIS is executing. It includes screen shots of...

Are Agency Final Rules Not Submitted to Congress for Possible Disapproval Under the Congressional Review Act Enforceable?

Posted on January 26, 2010
Signed into law in March of 1996, The Congressional Review Act, Title II of P.L. 104-121, was an attempt to reestablish a measure of congressional authority over rulemaking by establishin expedited procedures by which Congress may disapprove agencies? final rules...

EBSCO Succeeds in Pushing Exclusivity to Mainstream Magazines in New Deal with Time, Inc. and Forbes

Posted on January 26, 2010
EBSCO announced that the Company have become the exclusive full text content providers for most, if not all of, Time, Inc. and Forbes magazines at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. On LISNews, Andy writes: Simply put, if you do not have...

Information Needs of Lawyers

Posted on January 26, 2010
Joelle Rogan's Information Needs of Lawyers: A case study evaluating the information needs of lawyers in a major City law firm (VDM Verlag, 2009) is the product of a dissertation written in 2003 for Rogan's MIS. In a comment to...

Privacy, Google, and DPI in Europe

Posted on January 26, 2010
Here's a curious report from the Inquirer (UK Tech version) about the Google Toolbar. It is alleged that the toolbar keeps reporting search information to Google even if the toolbar is disabled. Search information appears to include every web url...

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