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Need a Lawyer? Call One for a Free Consult on Newlawyer.com

Posted on August 18, 2009
Many attorneys still charge a client before they speak to them for the first time but many people, particularly partons we see at the reference desk, cannot afford to pay for an initial consultation. Newlawyer.com is a professional network of...

"Good Against the World:" Natural Law Argument for Intellectual Property Rights

Posted on August 18, 2009
Natural law philosophy, argues Alina Ng (Mississippi College School of Law), has a lot to teach about the copyright system as a larger ethical and moral institution to promote the progress of society through the process of authentic authorship in...

Opening: Access Services Librarian, Minnesota Law Library

Posted on August 18, 2009
The University of Minnesota Law Library is seeking talented and motivated candidates for the position of Access Services Librarian. This professional position will promote and manage all aspects of access services in a highly patron oriented academic law library that...

Some Thoughts on the Future of Printed Law Reviews

Posted on August 18, 2009
Did anyone notice the article last Thursday in Ars Technica which contained in the headline the suggestion that publishers are on the road to purely digital publications? The story is about a leaked memo from the American Chemical Society's publishing...

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Shaffer, not Schaffer (Law Librarian of Congress redo)!

Posted on August 18, 2009
Last night I posted an announcement regarding the new Law Librarian of Congress. I must post a corrected version of that announcement as I confused part of Roberta Shaffer?s (the new Law Librarian of Congress) credentials with those of Ellen...

Power Searcher Feedback Sought for Google's Next-Generation Search Infrastructure

Posted on August 17, 2009
Google's Webmaster Central Blog is a blog many online searchers are not likely to read but Sabrina Pacifici does. In a recent beSpacific post, she calls attention to an opportunity to try out Google's next-generation search infrastructure. About the test...

Is There a Biological Basis for Recognizing Property, Fairness, Liberty and Equality Rights?

Posted on August 17, 2009
In A Biological Basis of Rights [SSRN], Edwin S. Fruehwald (Hofstra) advocates rights based on anthropocentric truths--"truths that are true only because of the kinds of minds that we happen to have and the cultural worlds in which our minds...

PACER gets some help from Firefox and CITP

Posted on August 17, 2009
The Princeton Center for Information for Technology Policy has come up with a Firefox extention to bring PACER documents to the public for free. The Firefox extention is called RECAP. RECAP replicates PACER content and uploads it to a mirror...

AALLtogo Debuts

Posted on August 17, 2009
This summer AALL announced its new online learning platform, AALLtogo. This platform was designed for AALL members to access online professional educational events and material. Hopefully, they will market it to the special interest sections and chapters for distance education...

YouTube video illustrating exponential growth of social media on our lives

Posted on August 17, 2009
A new YouTube video done in the same style as the viral phenomenon "Did You Know 1.0" by Scott McLeod and Karl Fisch shows the impact of social media on our lives. The video begins by asking the question "is...

Comments to AALL's ALL-SIS Task Force on ABA Accrediation Standards Review Due This Week

Posted on August 17, 2009
ABA Standards Review Committee Roster Chair: Donald J. Polden, Dean, Santa Clara University School of Law Vice Chair: Margaret Martin Barry, Professor, The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law Steven C. Bahls, President, Augustana College Edwin J...

Roberta Shaffer named Law Librarian of Congress!

Posted on August 17, 2009
The Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) announced that Roberta I. Shaffer, the current FLICC Executive Director, was appointed Law Librarian of Congress. This is fabulous news. Ms. Shaffer is a leader among information professionals and was very active...

City of Chicago Takes the Day Off

Posted on August 17, 2009
The City of Chicago is basically closed for business today except for essential services. In addition to City Hall, public libraries, health clinics and most city offices have been shut down in a cost-savings measure. Most city employees are off...

How Does Surveillance Frame Social Networking Sites?

Posted on August 16, 2009
The research questions addressed in Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Society by Christian Fuch are: How does economic and political surveillance frame social networking site usage? How knowledgeable are students about surveillance in society? How critical are students about...

Brave New World in Citations: Eliminate Full Stops

Posted on August 15, 2009
On Slaw, Gary Rodrigues campaigns for the elimation of full stops for citing English and Commonwealth law reports to rectify consequences of including them, "thousands upon thousands of unnecessary key strokes in setting type and endless hours of citation checking...

Friday Fun: The Colbert Report's "Award Eligible" Nailed 'Em Series Features Library Criminal Activity

Posted on August 14, 2009
Hat tip to LISnews. [JH] The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Nailed 'Em - Library Crime www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Tasers

Google Book Settlement Information for Faculty from ARL

Posted on August 14, 2009
ARL has created a web page with some general information about the Google Book Settlement with links to a one-page handout and a template letter for providing faculty members with information about the settlement. [JH]

Is There an E-Discovery Bubble?

Posted on August 14, 2009
On 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, Greg Lambert says yes, and the bubble is going to burst. "I'm not saying that E-Discovery is going away," writes Lambert in I'm Calling It!! - There's an 'E-Discovery Bubble', "what I'm saying...

Getting a Head-Start on Law School from LexisNexis

Posted on August 14, 2009
Many law schools now require a brief Intro to Law course for incoming 1Ls. Helpful perhaps. Law profs have their own idiosyncratic views on this head-start approach to law school though younger law profs teaching the course may be more...

Fair Use Survives RealDVD Case Even if the Software Does Not

Posted on August 14, 2009
Real Networks lost big earlier this week when Judge Marilyn Patel issued a temporary injunction preventing Real from distributing the RealDVD software. If sold, it would have allowed consumers to back up their video library to a home server which...

Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009 Introduced in the House

Posted on August 13, 2009
Representatives Edward Markey (D-MA) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA), introduced H.R. 3458, the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2009, [Thomas, OpenCongress] on July 31 to protect network neutrality under the Communications Act, safeguard the future of the open Internet and protect...

Lippe Responds to "Snarky" Law Prof Comments to His Law School 4.0 Article

Posted on August 13, 2009
Paul Lippe's reports that he received 50-plus responses to his June 22 article, Welcome to the Future: Time for Law School 4.0. Most, he writes "were quite favorable, including from law school deans and faculty; a few were snarky and...

Guide to Information Resources for New Legal Practice Technologies

Posted on August 13, 2009
In his LLRX article, Law Practice Technology Information Sources and Tools, Ken Strutin provides a short list of information resources covering new technologies that apply to legal research and law practice. He also identifies several specific tools that may contribute...

JSTOR to Get Current, MUSE to Get Deeper

Posted on August 13, 2009
JSTOR intends to add current issues to its content. An article in Inside Higher Ed describes efforts to bring its publications up to date rather than having the blackout wall of one or more years in its collection of 800...

Microsoft Ordered to Halt Word Shipments in 60 Days

Posted on August 13, 2009
The news that a federal court in East Texas issued a permanent injunction against Microsoft, commanding that no copy of Word 2003 or 2007 can be sold 60 days after the date of order, inspires visions of Microsoft being deprived...

HeinOnline Responds to User Feedback by Implementing New Search Tool Feature

Posted on August 12, 2009
Thanks to a company that takes listening to librarians and others seriously, HeinOnline has added a new search tool that allows users to search for words or phrases in the section, or the page they are currently viewing. The new...

New Tool for Law School Admissions Staff: iPhone App Provides Law School Rankings

Posted on August 12, 2009
Law School 100is an iPhone app that ranks 100 law schools in the United States and provides capsule profiles of each school. It's produced by LawTV Inc., the publisher of The Law School 100. "Even for aspiring law students, the...

Failed Banks List

Posted on August 12, 2009
Using FDIC data, ProPublica has created a chart of failed banks, the federal agency that provided oversight to each one, and the major public enforcement that occurred against the bank prior to its collapse. It?s sortable state, date, or even...

How the web 2.0 is impacting homelife

Posted on August 12, 2009
This article from Sunday's New York Times may strike a responsive cord with many of you - it certainly did with me - in terms of how much of our daily rituals have been forever altered by social networking technology....

The 50 best law firms for working mothers

Posted on August 12, 2009
Working Mother magazine has just published the winners for 2009 based on the following criteria: The firm's "workforce profile," family friendly policies, leadership, compensation and their advancement and retention of women, among other factors. Any firm with more than 50...

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