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Let's Get Out the Vote for 3 Geeks and a Law Blog

Posted on December 21, 2009
3 Geeks and a Law Blog is one of the ten nominees in the 2009 ABA Journal Blawg 100's Tech category. Got my vote. How about you? Great blog IMHO; let's get out the vote for a law librarian blog....

The Supreme Court Takes Up Public Sector Privacy Case

Posted on December 21, 2009
Privacy is in the news a lot these days, and it made more news last week when the Supreme Court decided to take up the case of Quon v. Arch Wireless. The case involved private text messages sent by a...

Google Map Maker Global Competition Now Underway

Posted on December 20, 2009
The Google Map Maker Global Competition will run from December 15, 2009 to January 31, 2010. The grand prize for the user who adds the greatest quantity of data using Map Maker is a $50,000 UNICEF donation to the winner's...

Is that eReader you're getting for Christmas going to be next year's 8 track?

Posted on December 20, 2009
According to the Wall Street Journal, eReaders (including Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook) are among the hottest items this holiday season with an estimated 900,000 units to be sold when all the dust settles. (I'm tempted to say...

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All digital library not yet ready for prime-time

Posted on December 20, 2009
That's the story being carried by the Chronicle of Higher Ed in which Lisa Spiro, director of the Digital Media Center at Rice University, said during a meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information that libraries shouldn't start de-accessioning print...

iPhone Reception Graduates to SNL Weekend Update Joke Status; 2010 the Arrival of the Google Handset?

Posted on December 20, 2009
Hat tip to Engadget's Joshua Topolsky for the YouTube video of SNL's Weekend Update on the iPhone's "great" network reception (3G, really?] because, well, it has been decades since SNL has been funny so I don't tune into the program...

Capossela on Microsoft's Plans to Compete with Google Apps (and the Infamous BSOD Comdex Demo)

Posted on December 19, 2009
Microsoft Senior vice-president, Information Worker Product Management group, Chris Capossela talks about the Company's plans to beat Google Apps and adding Twitter-like features to Office with Computerworld's Eric Lai. See his response to the question"Google seems to be doing Google...

Round-up of Practitioner Law Blogs

Posted on December 19, 2009
Florida Criminal Lawyers Blog http://www.florida-criminal-lawyers-blog.com http://www.florida-criminal-lawyers-blog.com/index.xml Reports on criminal law legislation, matters and reports in Florida. Published by Wiliam Moore, PA. New York Injury Lawyers Blog http://www...

Borders Books to open e-book store and develop related software

Posted on December 18, 2009
Borders is about to enter the e-book business by both opening an online store to sell e-books and developing an e-reader application to compete with Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's recently launched Nook: Borders and Kobo, an e-book service...

The Lexis Letter

Posted on December 18, 2009
This morning law school deans and some librarians received a letter from Joseph Gruenwald, Law School Operations Specialist at Lexis Nexis, and Scott Collins, Vice President of Law Schools. Several academic library directors (including myself) did not receive the letter...

LexisNexis' new academic pricing model, and simple customer courtesy

Posted on December 18, 2009
This morning my dean received an email letter from Joseph Grunenwald, Vice President of Law Schools at LexisNexis. The letter informed us of their zero increase plans for next year (yay, they get it!), and included a new twist: they...

Friday Fun Part Deux: 20th Anniversary of The Simpsons

Posted on December 18, 2009
Yesterday marked the the 20th anniversary on that cultural institution known as The Simpson, the longest-running primetime animated series in history and the longest-running comedy on primetime television. Too many great clips to try to pick just one favorite but...

Friday Fun: Impact! The Law Review Article vs. the Commercial Press Book

Posted on December 18, 2009
Boston Univ law prof Jay Wexler's humorous comparison of the impact of publishing forms on audience attaction (read law reviews need marketing departments) It's also a cute indirect ad for his book, Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds....

What Have Been the Most Important Developments (for good or ill) in Law Librarianship This Decade?

Posted on December 18, 2009
On PrawfsBlawg, Joseph Blocher is soliciting reader contributions on what was the most significant development in legal academia this decade? Comments range from the influence of U.S. News & World Report to the Snuggie. The post inspired Chicago's Brian Leiter...

Culture and the Regulation of Social Affairs: Hard Law, Soft Law and What Happens When They Are on a Collision Course

Posted on December 18, 2009
I think we all know what "hard law" is but if not, Grant McCracken, Research Affiliate of the Convergence Culture Consortium at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of the recently published book, Chief Culture Officer: How to Create a...

FBI's 2008 Hate Crime Statistics Report

Posted on December 18, 2009
The FBI's 2008 Hate Crime Statistics found that 7,783 criminal incidents involving 9,168 offenses were reported in 2008 as a result of bias toward a particular race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity/national origin, or disability. The data show a 2 percent...

Google Loses French Copyright Case

Posted on December 18, 2009
A French court has ruled that Google violated France's copyright laws when it scanned books without permission of publishers and authors.The Court fined Google euro300,000 for showing snippets online and added a euro10,000 daily fine until the snippets are removed...

The Revolving Door of Law School Dean Offices

Posted on December 18, 2009
Considering his dramatic reforms to the 3L curricular reported in March of 2008 on LLB in Washington and Lee Reinvents 3L Curriculum with a hat tip to Chicago law prof Brian Leiter, it comes at a bit of surprise that...

Parker on Tenure for Academic Law Librarians

Posted on December 17, 2009
Carol Parker, Law Library Director and Keleher Professor of Law, University of New Mexico Law Library, and former LLB contributing editor recently posted the following two articles on SSRN. Providing Tenure and Continuous Appointment Opportunities for Academic Law Librarians: Challenges...

Got Academic Tenure-Track Offer, What Next?

Posted on December 17, 2009
Chicago law prof Brian Leiter offers some advice for law profs that is or should be just as applicable for offers of academic tenure-track postions to law librarians. See his What do you need to find out now that you've...

Biehl's Guide to Business Filings Databases Updated

Posted on December 17, 2009
Kathy Biehl's annotated guide to corporate and business filings databases provides links to and descriptions of services available from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as selected commercial services. The scope of this roundup does not...

Opening: Instructional Services Reference Librarian, Univ. of Florida

Posted on December 17, 2009
Overview: The Lawton Chiles Law Library at the University of Florida Levin College of Law seeks an Instructional Services Reference Librarian. The ideal candidate will be a dynamic, forward-thinking educator with a sincere love of teaching. Normal work week will...

Is the Kindle a News Publisher's Dream Device?

Posted on December 17, 2009
As people ponder the future of journalism and news, one article that appears on the Atlantic web site holds the intriguing notion that the free media ride on the web may be over due to the Kindle and Kindle like...

Angry Facebook post by spurned embalming student prompts ban from campus

Posted on December 17, 2009
Here's yet another example of how social media postings can get one into trouble. A University of Minnesota embalming-science student used her Facebook page to vent about a recent break-up with her boyfriend claiming she was looking forward to the...

Bankruptcy Judge Issues Guidelines for Writing Like a Real Person

Posted on December 17, 2009
United States Bankruptcy Judge Robert Kressel, D. Minn. has issued a 19-point plan to put an end to legalese in his court. See his Order Preparation Guidelines. Hat tip to The Lawyerist's Judge Orders You to Stop Writing Stupidly by...

Vote For Your Favorite Web Products of 2009

Posted on December 16, 2009
Conducted by ReadWriteWeb, results will be announced at the end of the week. Vote here. See also ReadWriteWeb's series of top products of 2009: Top 10 Mobile Web Products Top 10 Consumer Web Apps Top 10 Semantic Web Products Top...

What's In A Name If It's The Name of Your Job?

Posted on December 16, 2009
Library Journal is reporting that the Special Libraries Association membership has rejected a proposal to change the name of the organization to ASKPro, standing for the Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals. The vote totals for rejection came to 3225 against...

Counterpoint on UMass's Proposal to Establish the First Public Law School in Massachusetts

Posted on December 16, 2009
Earlier I posted some criticisms of the proposed UMass Dartmouth law school. At the time I didn't have the link to the University's offical statement on its decision to accept Southern New England School of Law's offer to donate its...

A Law School Carol: 1L Student Meets the Ghost of a Failed Career in Law

Posted on December 16, 2009
Following up on A "Grand Canyon-Sized Divide" Between In-House and Law Firm Attorneys on State of the Legal Industry which reports that one-fifth of surveyed law school students regret attending law school due to the changing legal marketplace and Mark...

What's Next for Google SLOJ?

Posted on December 16, 2009
In Can Google tame the law? Nick Holmes addresses Google's ability to address the needs of legal researchers. "For Google, scale is everything: index everything, analyse it with fancy algorithms and the results will speak for themselves," he writes. "While...

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