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How Do Authors and Publishers Create the Best Possible eBook?

Posted on January 08, 2010
Mike Shatzkin writes "the day when ebook sales are financially significant has apparently arrived and the point when those revenues could be more important than print revenues is in sight. So it may be time to change the objective of...

When and Why State Legislative Ratifications of Constitution Amendments Became Incredibly Difficult

Posted on January 08, 2010
While modern lawyers assume that state ratification of a constitutional amendment is incredibly difficult, IUPUI law prof Gerard N. Magliocca's recently SSRN-posted article, The Child Labor Amendment and the Court-Packing Plan, documents that this interpretation only emerged in 1937 as...

Staff Holiday Parties!

Posted on January 08, 2010
So, I don't know about your library or school, but our holiday parties usually involve some nice treats that we wash down with soft drinks (I will not confess otherwise!). Sometimes there is holiday music or just peppy music playing...

Twitter, social media and the bottom line among BigLaw firms.

Posted on January 07, 2010
A survey conducted by myCorporateResource.com of the Top 100 Am Law firms found that 29 have Twitter accounts although some, like Skadden, haven't posted a single Tweet since signing up for the service. Indeed, only 9 of those 29 BigLaw...

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Law Librarians Can Help USA.gov: Call for Submitting Suggestions by January 15

Posted on January 07, 2010
The GSA's USA.gov is seeking user comments about how to improve the website. Some already submitted include: De-cluttering the pages (both content and design). Improving the Search visibility and functionality. Widgetize content so it can be re-used on other websites...

2009 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary

Posted on January 07, 2010
It's a 5-page report, "short and sweet from C.J. John Roberts" as characterized by Jonathan Hayes on Bankruptcy Prof Blog. "The report ... does not contain the plea for salary increases that characterized the 2008 year-end report" writes Robin Effron...

Worst Year Ever for Law Firm Layoffs; New NALP Recruiting Recommendations Expected This Month

Posted on January 07, 2010
"2009 will go down as the worst year ever for law-firm layoffs. More people were laid off by more firms than had been reported for all previous years combined," according to Law Shucks. 12,196 people were laid off by major...

If a JD isn't going to lead one to the promised land of high income, will an MBA?

Posted on January 07, 2010
Nope. So says Lucy Kellaway in The End of the Affair, published in The Economist: [I]n 2010, for the second year running, tens of thousands of overqualified MBAs will emerge with nowhere exciting to go. A very few will land...

Opening: Assistant Director for Public Services, LSU Law Center Library

Posted on January 07, 2010
Definition. Responsible for planning, directing and coordinating the overall Public Services operations of the LSU Law Library, including reference, research and instructional support, research guide production, interlibrary loan, circulation, reserves, and exhibits...

10 Wacky Laws That Apparently Are Still on the Books (Is it really against the law for a woman to strip off her clothing while standing in front of a man's picture in Oxford, OH?)

Posted on January 07, 2010
Apparently because no citations provided in the CNN iReport: In Billings, Mont., it is illegal for anyone to sell, harbor or give away rats as pets or toys for any purpose other than to feed snakes or birds of prey....

Does the FTC Need to Regulate Search Neutrality?

Posted on January 06, 2010
By way of follow-up to Nova Southeastern law prof Jim Levy's LLB post Google's search engine dominance threatens web neutrality, I read the cited Adam Raff NYT op-ed piece entitled Search, but You May Not Find. In it Raff writes...

Library 2.0 Gang Podcast on Social Media in Libraries

Posted on January 06, 2010
The guest for December's Library 2.0 Gang podcast was Meredith Farkas, author of Social Software in Library. Farkas joined John Blyberg, Char Booth, Marshall Breeding, Nicole Engard, and Carl Grant to discuss two main categories of social software as tools...

New and Updated Research Guides from GlobaLex

Posted on January 06, 2010
New and updated GlogaLex research guides published in December: New Research Guide: The Bolivian Legal System and Legal Research by Mauricio Ipi�a Nagel Updated Guides: Guide to Georgian Legal Research by Irma Aladashvili; Update by Nana Patsia Luxembourg ? Description...

Opening: Systems Librarian, George Washington University Law School Library

Posted on January 06, 2010
The George Washington University Law School, Jacob Burns Law Library seeks a systems librarian. Review of applications will begin February 1, 2010, and continue until the position is filled. Additional information and details on the application procedure are available on...

South Carolina joins Florida in deciding efficacy of friending judges on Facebook

Posted on January 06, 2010
This blog reported the story a few weeks ago about a Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee that issued a non-binding opinion concluding that it might be an ethical violation for lawyers and judges to "friend" each other on Facebook. Now...

"15 Gadgets That Changed Everything This Decade Past"

Posted on January 06, 2010
Following up on our post about the teaching technologies that became obsolete that past decade, here's Silicone Alley Insider's list of the 15 revolutionary gadgets from the last decade. 1. The iPod 2. Flatscreen T.V.'s 3. Portable GPS 4. The...

Yes, It's Out and It's Called "Google Nexus One"

Posted on January 06, 2010
And its running Google Android version 2.1. World-changing, probably not, but a step in the right direction. The 2.1 OS update will filter down to the other Android phones, but the long anticipated entry into the smartphone market by Google...

Holiday Letter from the Law Librarian of Congress

Posted on January 06, 2010
Roberta I. Shaffer, the Law Librarian of Congress, has written a holiday letter that provides updates on the Law Library of Congress as it heads into the New Year. [BA]

In the Wake of Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co.: The O?Connor Judicial Selection Initiative Promotes Reform of Selection of State Court Judges

Posted on January 05, 2010
In response to charges of corruption and machine politics in the selection of judges, Missouri was the first state put a merit selection system in place in 1940. Today, 87 percent of all state court judges are still elected and...

Findings from Sealed Cases in Federal Courts Study

Posted on January 05, 2010
The Federal Judicial Center's Sealed Cases in Federal Courts (2009) found that 0.2% of civil cases, 1.6% of criminal cases, 16% of magistrate judge cases, 34% of miscellaneous cases, and 0.1% of appeals were sealed approximately two years after filing...

Zillman's Guide to Deep Web Research

Posted on January 05, 2010
The Deep Web covers somewhere in the vicinity of 1 trillion pages of information. In the last several years, some of the more comprehensive search engines have written algorithms to search the deeper portions of the Web by attempting to...

Get Ready for the "Next Evolution" in Very Expensive Legal Research Services

Posted on January 05, 2010
Greg Lambert offers his 10 projections for 2010 on 3 Geeks and a Law Blog including rumored ones that have become a swirling maelstrom lately, namely, Westlaw and Lexis launching revamped legal research interfaces. Yup, Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Gover....

The newest social networking website - ugly people need not apply

Posted on January 05, 2010
This story comes to us via BNA's Internet Law News (subscription required). It's a new social networking site called BeautifulPeople.com where membership is based solely on physical looks. The site made the BNA newswire because BeautifulPeople.com recently ejected several thousand...

The Joy of Text Messaging Reference Services

Posted on January 05, 2010
I have a Blackberry to keep up with my email, a handy alternative to lugging my laptop around on short trips and a useful diversion while waiting for the bartender to pour the next Guinness, but I hate SMS text...

First Hot Trend of 2010: Piracy of eBooks Spreading Fast

Posted on January 04, 2010
"[D]igital theft may pose a big headache in 2010 for the slumping publishing industry, which relies increasingly on electronic reading devices and e-books to stimulate sales," writes CNN's Matt Frisch in Digital piracy hits the e-book industry. As eReaders and...

What's on Tap for Federal Agencies This Year

Posted on January 04, 2010
The fall edition of the Unified Agenda, which summarizes the rules and proposed rules that each Federal agency expects to issue during in 2010, is now available via GPO. The site also allows one to search (1994 forward) or browse...

Intellectual Property: Enhancements to Coordinating U.S. Enforcement Efforts

Posted on January 04, 2010
In a prepared statement for a Congressional hearing released earlier this month, Loren Yager, GAO Director of International Affairs and Trade, addressed two topics on IP protection and enforcement in anticipation of some of the challenges ahead in implementing The...

Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library in the Depository Library Spotlight

Posted on January 04, 2010
The November 2009 Depository Library Spotlight features the Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library at the University of Washington School of Law. The Depository Library Spotlight, an outreach effort for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), showcases the "unique services and...

A View from the Cave of Google SLOJ

Posted on January 04, 2010
In Google Scholar: A New Way to Search for Cases and Related Legal Publications, Courtney Minick and David Tsai provide an overview of the features Google SLOJ provides for the legal research market. Not much new information, if any. The...

2009 Review of Open Access

Posted on January 04, 2010
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics published an excellent two-part review on the state of open access scholarship by the end of 2009. The December 11th and December 31st postings are actually part of a quarterly series started by blog...

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