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Cloud Computing Libraries and OCLC's "Web-scale Library Management Service" Strategy

Posted on May 13, 2009
Richard Wallis, Marshall Breeding, and Google associate product manager for Google Book Search, Frances Haugen discuss cloud computing and how it will influence libraries in this recent Library 2.0 Gang podcast. Cloudofdata.com's Paul Miller chimes in to provide an overview...

Reminder: Register by May 15th for AALL's Webinar on Libraries and Social Software

Posted on May 13, 2009
Sarah Glassmeyer, reference librarian from University of Kentucky, will explore the implementation of social media software in libraries in an AALL-sponsored webinar on May 20, from 12-1 p.m. EDT but you need to register by May 15 to benefit from...

Law School Exam Proctors Needed for Bathroom Patrol

Posted on May 13, 2009
The Syracuse Post-Standard is reporting that Syracuse University Law School has limited restroom breaks for 1Ls to one per final exam this year because students were suspected of using cell phones to text message. "During this exam period, we have...

New Search Features From Google

Posted on May 13, 2009
Google announces new search capabilities at its Searchology event, including tools that manipulate search results into different data sets on the fly. Some of this is created when webmasters add code to their pages that allow Google to extract and...

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Kudos to Michelle Rigual

Posted on May 13, 2009
Michelle Rigual has accepted an appointment to become the next Law Library Director of the Dee J. Kelly Law Library at the Texas Wesleyan School of Law effective August 1st. Michelle has been serving as Associate Director of the University...

Should SCOTUS Prohibit Ex Parte Blogging?

Posted on May 12, 2009
In Ex Parte Blogging: the Legal Ethics of Supreme Court Advocacy in an Internet Era, 61 Stan. L. Rev. 1535 (2009), Rachel Lee (Stanford Law School (2009), Prospective Law Clerk to the Honorable Susan P. Graber, United States Court of...

Legal Technologists on Wireless WiFi Routers

Posted on May 12, 2009
Legal technologists are abuzz about tiny wireless WiFi routers, which provide a WiFi bubble anywhere you are. Verizon?s Novatel MiFi 2200 was described by David Pogue in the May 6 New York Times. The Canary Wireless Digital Hotspotter HS20 and...

Attention Federal Court Litigators: Statutory Time-Periods Technical Amendments Act Signed

Posted on May 12, 2009
On May 7, 2009, President Obama signed H.R. 1626, Statutory Time-Periods Technical Amendments Act of 2009, Pub. L. No. 111-16 [Thomas]. The Act amends 28 statutory deadlines making them consistent with time-computation amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure,...

AAUP Releases Annual Report on Faculty Salaries

Posted on May 12, 2009
"With the broader economy in free fall and new indicators reported almost daily, the economic outlook for faculty members and higher education is anything but clear." That's according to the AAUP's report, On the Brink: The Annual Report on the...

Current Odds on Obama's Supreme Court Nominee

Posted on May 12, 2009
Judge Sonia Sotomayor is the current front runner for President Obama's nomination to the Supreme Court according to the Irish gambling website, Paddy Power. Here's the line for the top five: Sonia Sotomayor 13/8 Diane Pamela Wood 9/4 Elena Kagan...

Two Courts, Same Issue, Different Outcome

Posted on May 12, 2009
Wisconsin resident Michael Sveum appealed his aggravated stalking conviction because prosecution evidence included Sveum's movements as recorded by a GPS device police secretly attached to his car. This, Sveum said, violated his Fourth Amendment rights...

Access to Court Records in the UK and Europe

Posted on May 11, 2009
?[T]rans-European research on civil or criminal justice would appear to be impossible given? a lack of access to court records, and inconsistent regulation respecting that access, ?in the various European member states,? argue Philip Leith and Maeve McDonagh in their...

Privacy and Goggle Book Settlement's Institutional Subscription Provisions

Posted on May 11, 2009
The Utility of Google Book Search Debate Recently, on a mailing list associated with new media transformations, there emerged a debate on the inherent utility of Google Book Search. Involving Paul Duguid (UC Berkeley Information School), Danny Sullivan (Search Engine...

ASPIRE: LexisNexis Does Something to Help Law School Grads Whose Law Firm Employment Has Been Deferred

Posted on May 11, 2009
LexisNexis is offering a very accommodating program, ASPIRE, for law school grads who have accepted Associate positions at law firms, but 1) are experiencing a deferred fall 2009 start date, and 2) are taking on public interest work during their...

Webinar on Using & Searching HeinOnline's Law Journal Collection Set for May 13

Posted on May 11, 2009
The great folks at HeinOnline will be conducting a free webinar focusing on using and searching HeinOnline's Law Journal Collection Wednesday, May 13, 2009 from 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m EDT. [Registration Page] Topics to be covered include How to quickly pull...

What's Your Retainer Agreement Say About Online Research Billing Practices?

Posted on May 11, 2009
The National Law Journal is reporting that a lawsuit has been filed in California state court against Chadbourne & Parke for allegedly overcharging a client for online legal research costs. Waggoner v. Chadbourne & Parke, No. BC408693 (Los Angeles Co...

Tracking H1N1 Flu

Posted on May 11, 2009
Tracking H1N1 Flu? Then try this page from the CDC which offers advice and updates. Even Google Trends has a Flu Trends Page. [MG]

More on the Death of Newsprint

Posted on May 11, 2009
Newsprint may be dying slowly, but the news is very much alive. Reports indicate that the Wall Street Journal is going to introduce micro-payments some time in the future for access to individual articles. The concept will extend to other...

Fake Journals by Elsevier

Posted on May 11, 2009
News in the library community is beginning to spread about the fact that the database Elsevier published a "peer-reviewed" journal that was a shill for the pharmaceutical company Merck. The specific title in question is the Australasian Journal of Bone...

Disengage From Your PDA and Engage in a "Real" Conversation

Posted on May 10, 2009
Hilarious piece from the Washington post entitled "Text Is Cheap Do Your Friends a Favor: Put Down the PDA and Talk to Them" that offers some prudent advice on proper crackberry etiquette. [RJ]

First 100 Days of Obama Internet Policy

Posted on May 10, 2009
On Public Knowledge, Art Brodsky evaluates the first 100 days of the Obama Administration on Internet policy. Key appointments have been made but "Internet policy might have to wait until mid-summer at the earliest, just to get started." [JH]

The World Wide Web in Plain English

Posted on May 09, 2009
Another Plain English video from the folks at Common Craft. [RJ]

A PlayStation Phone?

Posted on May 09, 2009
Could happen according to Sony Ericsson President. "Begin warrantless speculation: now" writes Engadget's Joseph Flatley. [JH]

Shocking Revelations About On-the-Job Praise

Posted on May 08, 2009
From "America's Finest News Source". [JH] Report: 70 Percent Of All Praise Sarcastic

Why Law Libraries?

Posted on May 08, 2009
Richard Danner (Duke), Blair Kauffman (Yale) and John Palfrey (Harvard) dive into the issue in The Twenty-First Century Law Library 101 LLJ 143 (2009). The article is an edited version of the program, ?The 21st Century Law Library: A Conversation,?...

Why Law School Academic Support?

Posted on May 08, 2009
With the closing of the academic year upon us, Elizabeth Stillman (Suffolk) offers a personal reflection on providing academic support for law school students. See her Law School Academic Support Blog post. Academic support providers, please note. Many students, for...

Article Submissions for ALL-SIS Newsletter's Summer Issue Due May 20th

Posted on May 08, 2009
If you are interested in submitting articles for the Summer issue of the ALL-SIS Newsletter, the deadline for this issue is May 20. According to the newsletter's editor, Leah Sandwell-Weiss (Arizona), the issue will be a great place for articles...

EPA Publishes Annual U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report

Posted on May 08, 2009
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the national greenhouse gas inventory, which finds that overall emissions during 2007 increased by 1.4 percent from the previous year. The report, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2007, is the...

Does The Internet Affect Your Attention Span?

Posted on May 08, 2009
There is an article by John Keilman on the Chicago Tribune web site that poses the question whether technology has stunted our ability to consume long form literature. And it is written by someone who is proud to have consumed...

Pay Student Loans If You Want to Be Admitted to the Bar or Keep Your Law License

Posted on May 08, 2009
FYI 3Ls: Mitchell Rubinstein covers recent court rulings on Adjunct Law Prof Blog. [JH]

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