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Legal Aid Meets the Public Library

Posted on July 20, 2009
One of the problems with working in a law library is public patrons asking for legal advice. We can't give advice, and they get frustrated. The John F. Kennedy Library in Vallejo, California is addressing the problem by having a...

Amazon Deletes Books From Kindle in Rights Dispute

Posted on July 20, 2009
Last week Amazon deleted electronic copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindles in the United States. Aside from the irony of the nature of the works, it was a startling move by Amazon. Customers had purchased the...

Elsevier Launches SciVal Spotlight Bibliometric Service

Posted on July 19, 2009
Elsevier's SciVal Spotlight uses "science mapping" to reveal the structure of scientific publishing in no fewer than 80,000 areas of research by means of bibliographic analysis and visualization algorithms. [Press Release] Think traditional bibliometric research measurements on steroids in so...

Practitioner Law Blogs

Posted on July 18, 2009
San Diego Criminal Attorneys Blog http://www.sandiegocriminalattorneysblog.com http://www.sandiegocriminalattorneysblog.com/index.xml Analyzes criminal law cases, news and reports in California. Published by Sean F. Leslie. Florida Mortgage Modification Lawyer Blog http://www...

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Do We Need Book Cart Competitions at AALL's Annual Meeting?

Posted on July 17, 2009
Folloing up on LLB's earlier post, New Programs at AALL?, here's Dana C. Rooks, Dean of the University of Houston Libraries, staring is a Madonna-inspired dance routine at the 2009 Texas Library Association's Book Cart Drill Team competition. Hat tip...

Light Reading for the Flight to DC

Posted on July 17, 2009
Lawyers in Your Living Room! Law on Television (ABA, 2009) ($24.95 less the ABA's current 20% discount) might be the cure for boredom on flights to DC for the AALL Annual Meeting. From the product description: From Perry Mason and...

Arnold's The Google Trilogy

Posted on July 17, 2009
If you want to know more about how Google delivers its products and services and have $650 laying around for PDFs, you might find Stephen E. Arnold's The Google Trilogy interesting: The Google Legacy (2005) concentrates on an overview of...

8 Reasons Not To Go To Law School

Posted on July 17, 2009
Only eight? This short list may be grounded in humor, but the humor is grounded in truth reality, at least from my law school experience. [MG]

Harvard University Press Goes Digital

Posted on July 17, 2009
Harvard University Press is selling digital copies of books on Scribd, some 1,000 in fact. Here's the announcement on Scribd, with links to some of the titles and their prices. [MG]

Country Reports on Habeas Corpus Rights

Posted on July 16, 2009
The Law Library of Congress has published country reports on the right of habeas corpus in Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Kingdom, and Yemen. Hat tip to Library Boy. [JH]

Schauer's Thinking Like a Lawyer: A New Introduction to Legal Reasoning

Posted on July 16, 2009
"Schauer is a leading scholar of jurisprudence and legal process, and his new book is as comprehensive, thorough, and sophisticated an introduction to legal reasoning as it is a lucid one. All of the bases are covered, and law students,...

Streamlining Book Metadata Workflow

Posted on July 16, 2009
NISO and OCLC have published a white paper entitled Streamlining Book Metadata Workflow, written by consultant Judy Luther. The paper analyzes the current state of metadata creation, exchange, and use throughout the book supply chain. Through interviews with over 30...

Library of Michigan May be a Casualty of State Finances

Posted on July 16, 2009
What is going on with the Library of Michigan which is the State Library? Library Journal is reporting that Governor Jennifer Granholm has issued an executive order eliminating the Michigan Department of History, Arts, and Libraries and transferring most of...

NY Law School Annouces Initiative on Google Book Search Settlement

Posted on July 16, 2009
The New York Law School announced a new program called the Public Interest Book Search Initiative that will foster public discussion about the law and policy of digitizing books, making them searchable, and distributing them online. The initiative will be...

14 Years Incarcerated for Civil Contempt Comes to an End

Posted on July 16, 2009
It what may be the longest term served for a civil contempt charge, a 73-year-old former corporate lawyer has been freed after spending more than 14 years in jail for refusing to give his ex-wife more than $2.5 million in...

AspenLaw Studydesk 3.0 Now Available

Posted on July 15, 2009
Aspen Publishers has released version 3.0 of AspenLaw Studydesk. Enhancements include new word processing tools, an improved briefing template, an improved flashcard wizard that allows users to create their own flashcards and export flashcard sets to Microsoft Word for formatting,...

Canadian Association of Law Libraries Membership Survey Results

Posted on July 15, 2009
Key findings from the Canadian Association of Law Libraries' membership survey have been posted on the CALL website. Here's a sample: Question 2. How is the profession of law librarianship changing? What do you see as the emerging challenges and...

Drudge Report as Gateway to Conventional Journalism

Posted on July 15, 2009
In New Media vs. Old Media: A Portrait of the Drudge Report 2002-2008 (First Monday), Kalev Leetaru reports that the Drudge Report relies heavily on wire services and obscure news outlets to find small stories that will break large tomorrow,...

Opening: Research Attorney, Cornell Law Library

Posted on July 15, 2009
Cornell Law Library is currently accepting applications for the position of Research Attorney. The position includes reference, teaching, and faculty liaison work, as well as developing innovative technologies within our dynamic teaching and scholarly environment...

Google Image Search Now Has a Copyright Filter, and the Life Photo Archive

Posted on July 15, 2009
Google has added a nifty feature to its Image Search function. The Advanced Search now features a filter for copyright license, at least for images that are tagged with that information. Obviously Google cannot account for whether images are tagged...

Press Coverage of Sotomayor Hearings's First Day

Posted on July 14, 2009
From the nation's opinion leaders: New York Times: Sotomayor Vows ?Fidelity to the Law? as Hearings Start Wall Street Journal: Nominee Outlines Philosophy on Bench Washington Post: Sotomayor Pledges 'Fidelity to the Law' [JH]

Wisconsin-Madison and Texas Amend Google Books Agreements

Posted on July 14, 2009
The terms of the UW-Madison and Texas Google Books agreements reportedly follow along the lines of the University of Michigan's amended Google Books agreement [text] and are contingent upon the Google Books settlement agreement being approved by the court...

U.S. News Joining the Law Firm Ranking Game

Posted on July 14, 2009
U.S. News is joining the law firm rankings game by teaming up with Best Lawyers. From the press release: U.S. News Media Group, the nation's leading source of rankings and service journalism, and Best Lawyers, the leading survey of lawyers...

Law Prof and Tax Reform Advocate Susan Pace Hamill Running for Alabama House Seat

Posted on July 14, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI Suggests Tax Policy From Caritas in Veritate: "One possible approach to development aid would be to apply effectively what is known as fiscal subsidiarity, allowing citizens to decide how to allocate a portion of the taxes they...

Kudos to Frank Houdek

Posted on July 14, 2009
Frank Houdek, former SIU law library director and associate dean for academic affairs since July 2007, has been appointed interim dean at SIU's School of Law. Houdek brings almost a quarter of a century of administrative experience at SIU to...

Rutgers Newark Law Library Receives IMLS Grant

Posted on July 14, 2009
The Rutgers (Newark) Law Library just received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) to preserve old and rare books in its collection. Specifically, the grant applies to manuscripts and books in the U.S. Supreme Court...

Pro Se Stories on This American Life

Posted on July 14, 2009
Public radio program This American Life?s most recent episode featured stories of people defending themselves (in court and in life). From the episode intro: ?It's tempting to act as your own lawyer, to argue your own cause. Who better to...

PLI Selling Books in Kindle Format

Posted on July 13, 2009
According to the PLI press release, there are currently 67 PLI titles available on Kindle, covering such areas as business, corporate and securities law, banking and commercial law, intellectual property law, estate and tax planning law, real estate law, insurance...

Can $300,000 in additional scholarship money to prop up U of I's US News law school ranking be defended on moral grounds?

Posted on July 13, 2009
Following up -- hopefully for the last time -- on LLB's earlier coverage of the University of Illinois College of Law admissions scandal published here and here, the Chicago Tribune is reporting that during a hearing before the Mikva Commission...

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