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UK's Data.Gov Site Officially Launched

Posted on January 21, 2010
In beta since September, data.gov.uk was officially launched yesterday. See the BBC News story, Tim Berners-Lee unveils government data project. ReadWriteWeb says the UK site puts the US Data.Gov site to shame, noting that the UK site already has more...

Will WEXIS Online Get Access for the Disabled Legal Researcher Right This Time? (And What About Law-Related Print Monographs?)

Posted on January 20, 2010
Online legal resources and digitial formats of print legal materials must be as easy to find for purchase, access and use by all. If you do not believe in that proposition there is no need to read the rest of...

EFF Calls on FCC to Close Loopholes in Proposed Regs in Net Neutrality Comment; Questions Whether FCC Has Jurisdiction to Regulate ISPs

Posted on January 20, 2010
EFF recently filed its Comment to the FCC's proposed regs for net neutrality, warning that as drafted they could let the entertainment industry and law enforcement hinder free speech and innovation. The Comment also argues that the FCC lacks statutory...

Deadline for Contributions to RIPS-SIS Teach-In Kit is Feb. 15th

Posted on January 20, 2010
The Research Instruction and Patron Services-SIS has provided the popular Teach-In Resource Kit for many years as a formerly print and now online publication designed to support the instructional and promotional activities of law librarians. It is published annually in...

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Campaign Finance Case May Come Tomorrow

Posted on January 20, 2010
The Associated Press (via the Washington Post) is reporting that the Supreme Court is meeting in a rare Thursday session to issue opinions. The speculation is that the Court will issue the opinion in the campaign finance case Citizens United...

Open Book Alliance Appeals to Congress in Google Book Settlement

Posted on January 20, 2010
The Open Book Alliance has sent a letter to Congress suggesting an alternative to the Google Book Settlement. They advocate the creation of a digital public library based on the following principles: Large scale book digitization efforts must recognize their...

Cobalt is Hot, Icy Hot

Posted on January 20, 2010
Arthritic relief for a so last century very expensive legal research service from Thomson Reuters and its staff. Photos here and here. [JH]

Cobalt 2010: The Doors of Perception Tour Begins

Posted on January 19, 2010
"There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception." There's going to be no free lunch but Thomson Reuters is opening the doors for a free Cobalt preview breakfast in select cities...

Keys to Public Access Identified in ALA-ACRL Comments on Federally Funded Research

Posted on January 19, 2010
Responding to the Office of Science and Technology Policy's (OSTP) request for comments regarding public access policies for science and technology funding agencies across the federal government, ALA and ACRL submitted excellent specific recommendations on Jan...

Creating Enhanced Publications

Posted on January 19, 2010
The main conclusion of Enhanced Publications: Linking Publications and Research Data in Digital Repositories is that publishers and repositories have the building blocks and the tools, but in general do not use them to create an "enhanced publication...

Lisa, The Technical and Commercial Flop that Changed Desktop Computing, Was Launched Today

Posted on January 19, 2010
Remember Lisa, the first commercial personal computer with a GUI? It was launched by Apple on Jan. 19, 1983. Sure it was "an overpriced, underpowered cobbled-together ramshackle Mac," quoting Leander Kahney in Wired's This Day in Tech column: Apple Gets...

Librarian Opportunities to Grab in the 2010 Horizon Report

Posted on January 19, 2010
Each year, the Horizon Report (released annually by Educause) identifies critical trends and Chellenges that will affect teaching and learning. It also identifies six emerging technologies or practices that are likely to enter mainstream use on campuses "within three adoption...

E-textbook sales rising

Posted on January 19, 2010
According to the Chronicle of Higher Ed, a leading publisher of e-textbooks reports that sales increased 400% during the year that just concluded. Moreover, a recent survey of 16,000 college students found that at least 42% of them have purchased,...

Supreme Court Action Today

Posted on January 19, 2010
The Supreme Court issued two opinions today. One was of significance to get press coverage, that of Presley v. Georgia (09-5270). Presley's issue is whether the trial court violated Presley's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights by closing the courtroom during...

Martin Luther King and the Law of the Land

Posted on January 18, 2010
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been 81 on Jan. 15, 2010. Unfortunately his birthday has been turned into a three-day weekend by being recognized as a federal holiday observed on the third Monday of January each year. He...

Idaho To Get Two New and Expanded Law Programs

Posted on January 18, 2010
One would not expect Boise, Idaho, to be a hotbed of competing law schools. The Idaho Statesman is reporting that two different schools are coming to the area. One is an expansion of the University of Idaho's Moscow (Idaho) program...

A Short Google-China Update

Posted on January 18, 2010
When I wrote about the Google-China affair last week, I suggested it was appropriate for Microsoft, Yahoo, and the State Department to step up to bat. Microsoft did by simply saying the company intends to stay in China and follow...

Protecting Reputations Online in Plain English

Posted on January 17, 2010
This Common Craft video explains the long term risks of sharing inappropriate information online. [JH]

What Would Professor Kingsfield Say? Conan O'Brien-NBC Contract Dispute Awakens Sleeping 1L Contract Students

Posted on January 16, 2010
The Paper Chase's Professor Kingsfield may have given the typical contracts prof a bad reputation and probably wouldn't have needed the Conan O'Brien-NBC contract dispute to liven up his 1L Contracts lectures. But using Kingsfield's demanding Socratic Method of teaching...

ALA Report: Flat funding has been an obstacle -- perhaps even a chronic problem for public libraries this entire decade

Posted on January 16, 2010
Public libraries at all levels have been affected by the economy. "While the full impact of the economic downturn remains fluid and the data challenging to assemble, what is known is that flat funding has been an obstacle?perhaps even a...

Friday Fun Part Two: Unscripted, Silly and Awkward West Employee Video Clips

Posted on January 15, 2010
West Thomson Reuters Legal started the New Year off by uploading very brief YouTube videos from West staffers who must have been told to sit in front of the camera and say something positive about how their jobs help West...

Friday Fun: Make Your Conference Groovy

Posted on January 15, 2010
ALA's 2010 Midwinter Meeting kicks off today. Not quite as much fun as the annual conference, I suspect, particularly since it's being held in chilly Boston instead of some warmer location like the AALS meeting in New Orleans earlier this...

More on Cobalt

Posted on January 15, 2010
More comments and predictions about Cobalt from Jason Wilson. This ain't navel-gazing. If you haven't already done so, take his RSS feed! [JH]

Library 2.0 Gang Reviews Last Decade's Significant Developments

Posted on January 15, 2010
The Library 2.0 Gang for this month's podcast, Carl Grant, Marshall Breeding and Frances Haugen, convened to review the game changing influences on librarianship over the last ten years and then attempt to predict what we will see in the...

CRS Report on Lobbying the Executive Branch

Posted on January 15, 2010
Lobbying the Executive Branch: Current Practices and Options for Change "outlines the development of registration requirements for lobbyists engaging executive branch officials since 1995. It also summarizes steps taken by the Obama Administration to limit and monitor lobbying of the...

Opening: Fellowships in Law Librarianship at Univ. of Arizona Law Library

Posted on January 15, 2010
The University of Arizona Cracchiolo Law Library has two to three openings for fellowships in law librarianship. In order to be considered for the fellowship an applicant must have a JD and be accepted for admission by the School of...

DOJ and Universities Settle Over Kindle DX Access to Blind Students

Posted on January 15, 2010
The Justice Department has reached agreements with several universities that considered the Kindle as a teaching device. The concern from the Department is that the Kindle's lack of audio menu navigation for blind or low vision individuals violates the Americans...

Content Curation, One of 10 Web Trends to Watch in 2010

Posted on January 15, 2010
According to Mashable's Pete Cashmore in a special CNN feature article: The Web's biggest challenge of recent years is that content creation is outpacing our ability to consume it: "Information overload" has become an increasingly common complaint. In the attention...

SCOTUS Indefinitely Blocks Live Streaming of Prop 8 Trial to Other Federal Courthouses, Hints Case Inappropriate for Internet Broadcasting

Posted on January 14, 2010
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court, 5-4 (per curiam), indefinitely blocked broadcasting the Proposition 8 trial, (Perry v. Schwazenegger in the US District Court for the Northern District of California; LLB's earlier post) beyond the local courthouse because the District Court's...

LISNews' 10 Librarian Blogs To Read in 2010

Posted on January 14, 2010
"Again this year we tried to choose 10 writers who cover very different aspects of our profession, 10 sites that inform, educate and maybe amuse." Kudos to all: Academic Librarian Awful Library Books The Best Of PubLib Disruptive Library Technology...

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