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Friday Fun: Congress Legislates Incomprehensible Shouting as Official US Language

Posted on March 25, 2011
The Onion News Network is reporting that Congress has deemed yelling and screaming as the nation's official mode of communication. [JH]

How The Biggest US Newspaper Paywalls Compare

Posted on March 25, 2011
See Joe Tartakoff's How The NYT?s Paywall Compares To Those Of Other Big Papers on paidContent. [JH]

Crumbling Relic or Vibrant Source of Legal Illumination: New Citation Study Offers Ray of Hope That Scholarly Legal Articles Are Used by Judges (or at least Their Law Clerks)

Posted on March 25, 2011
The convention wisdom is judges are frustrated with legal scholarship's conceptual nonsense and law profs are upset that all the toil and trouble they put into their scholarly works is viewed with disdain by the bench. Whit D. Pierce &...

Recent Developments on ABA's Draft Law School Accreditation Standards

Posted on March 24, 2011
NLJ's Karen Sloan reports that the latest draft of law school accreditation standards would change how law school report employment data, impose tougher bar passage rate requirements, ease limits on the number of distant education credit hours and retain much...

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On Legal eBooks, pBooks and Reader Preferences

Posted on March 24, 2011
On this issue, see the following Legal Skills Prof Blog posts and ask yourself, is there a generational divide on format preferences. [JH] Are E-books a good fit for profs, scholars and other researchers? Law firm survey supports research showing...

Accessible to All: When "Born Digital" Results in Ready Availability in Print-Only

Posted on March 24, 2011
Some law libraries and certainly our professional association plus many but not all legal vendors can do a much better job by insisting/insuring that all legal resouces are available to all potential users of them. I emphasize "potential users" because...

TR Legal's Big Free Love for Public Sector Researchers Discontinued "Effective Immediately"

Posted on March 24, 2011
Big Love has ended in the land of 10,000 invoices -- scratch that; Big Love is was one of the Blog Widow's favorite cable programs which ceased production recently. The writers and producers of Big Love explained they said everything...

Cornell University Library Rejects Nondisclosure Clauses in Publisher and Vendor Agreements: "An open market will result in better licensing terms."

Posted on March 23, 2011
Enough is enough. Cornell University has publicly declared it has had enough with publisher and vendor NDAs that require nondisclosure of pricing information or other information that does not constitute a trade secret and endorses ARL's position that member libraries...

Is AALL Future Ready? On Public Responsibly Based on Professional Expertise (Or at what point do we stop talking and seize the moment for consumer advocacy?)

Posted on March 23, 2011
As a follow-up to this LLB post, A Pound of Flesh: Free Speech in the Context of the Desperate Bargains Made between AALL and the Legal Publishing Industry and Individual Institutional Buyers and Their Vendors, let's recall Vicki Szymczak's (Library....

The Spawn of US News Law School Rankings

Posted on March 23, 2011
See Michelle Weyenberg's silly National Jurist March 2011 issue article, 23 Law Profs to Take Before You Die. I'm thinking the selection was based on names other law profs would recognize. More interesting reading in this issue of National Jurist...

Some Thoughts on the Google Book Settlement Rejection

Posted on March 23, 2011
I posted a link to the Google Amended Book Settlement opinion yesterday and I would like to offer a few thoughts on it. Much of the press reacts to the decision with bombast. Articles with headlines such as Google's Books...

Perhaps "We" Just Don't Matter in Some Major Legal Vendors' Strategic and Marketing Plans Anymore

Posted on March 22, 2011
When I read vendor statements which in effect say that "our customers" wants this or that or have rejected this or that like TR Legal's recent statement, my initial reaction is how convenient to use such a boilerplate justification. My...

Notes by the "Madison" of the AALL Vendor Colloquium's Proceedings Published

Posted on March 22, 2011
In yesterday's LLB post, A Pound of Flesh: Free Speech in the Context of the Desperate Bargains Made between AALL and the Legal Publishing Industry and Individual Institutional Buyers and Their Vendors I cited to Mary Jenkins' recent AALL Spectrum...

Images of Law Libraries, Real and Imaginary

Posted on March 22, 2011
Mike Widener, Rare Book Librarian & Lecturer in Legal Research, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School, has posted a gallery of images of law libraries both real and imaginary on Flickr. His favorite, featured here, is the frontispiece for...

Stress Relief Yale Style

Posted on March 22, 2011
Next week Yale Law will embark upon a three-day pilot project aimed at student stress relief. Law Students can go to the cirulcation desk to check out Monty the therapy dog for a half hour. I wonder how much students...

Google Book Settlement Rejected

Posted on March 22, 2011
A federal court has rejected the terms of the Google Book Settlement, saying they go "too far" The opinion is here. More on this later. [MG]

Supreme Court Action Today

Posted on March 22, 2011
The Supreme Court issued two opinions today. The first is Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. v. James Siracusano (09-1156). The case comes to the Court at the pleading stage of a securities fraud claim under �10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of...

A Pound of Flesh: Free Speech in the Context of the Desperate Bargains Made between AALL and the Legal Publishing Industry and Individual Institutional Buyers and Their Vendors

Posted on March 21, 2011
One of AALL's rationalizations for not webcasting, live or archived, or for providing an official transcript of AALL's Vendor Colloquium, was that doing so would not allow participants to speak freely. This provides the opportunity, allegedly, for participants to express...

New Guide to Privacy Law Published: Privacy Law Fundamentals by Solove and Schwartz

Posted on March 21, 2011
Both authors of Privacy Law Fundamentals (International Association of Privacy Professionals, March 2011) [available on Amazon and IAPP sites] should be well known to everyone who follows the privacy law literature. Daniel J. Solove is John Marshall Harlan Research Professor...

Opening: Director of the Law Library and Information Technology, Ave Maria School of Law

Posted on March 21, 2011
Position Title: Director of the Law Library and Information Technology Department: Law Library Reports To: Dean of the Law School Location: Naples, Florida Overview: The Director of the Law Library and Information Technology is responsible for overseeing all aspects of...

Supreme Court Action Today

Posted on March 21, 2011
The Supreme Court's slap down of the Ninth Circuit's rulings on habeas cases, particularly from California, continues today with the lone Per Curiam opinion released this morning. Felkner v. Jackson (10-797) reaches the court in the context of juror challenges...

Reminder: Loyola's Journalist Law School Fellowship Applicatio?ns due Monday, March 21

Posted on March 20, 2011
The Civil Justice Program at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles is now accepting applications for its sixth-annual Journalist Law School fellowship (JLS), to be held June 15-18, 2011 on Loyola Law School?s Frank Gehry-designed downtown Los Angeles campus...

Debtors' Prison, 21st Century Style

Posted on March 19, 2011
The WSJ's Jessica Silver-Greenberg reports that "[m]ore than a third of all U.S. states allow borrowers who can't or won't pay to be jailed. Judges have signed off on more than 5,000 such warrants since the start of 2010 in...

The Whiner Monologues: Law School Reactions to the 2011 US News Law School Rankings ("2012 edition")

Posted on March 18, 2011
ATL's Elis Mystal is providing coverage here: Start Your Whining, Part 1: Schools Make Excuses for Their Poor U.S. News Rankings Start Your Whining, Part 2: U.S. News Makes Law Schools Squirm All Across the Land See also ATL's Open...

Friday Fun: Search smarter, Search faster

Posted on March 18, 2011
An instructional aid: (1) one more chance to drum sound online search techniques into law students' heads before they fly away for the summer or (2) something law firm librarians can use when the summer clerks nest in their libraries....

Something to Think About as 2011's Sunshine Week Comes to a Close: How Statutes Are Used to Keep Government Information Exempt from FOIA Requests

Posted on March 18, 2011
ProPublica has created an interactive database that shows all of the Freedom of Information Act exemptions used in 2008-2009 and how they were used. See FOIA Eyes Only: How Buried Statutes Are Keeping Information Secret and ProPublica's database. In Waiting...

Federal Records Management of Social Media Content

Posted on March 18, 2011
The goal of San Jose State LIS prof Patricia Franks' report, How Federal Agencies Can Effectively Manage Records Created Using New Social Media Tools, is to provide: An understanding of the unique properties, or characteristics, of records resulting from social...

Submission Deadline Extended for AALL's Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition to April 15th

Posted on March 18, 2011
The Legal History and Rare Books Section (LH&RB) of the American Association of Law Libraries, in cooperation with Cengage Learning, announces the third annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. The competition is named in honor of Morris L. Cohen,...

Blog Addresses How to Acquire Access to Public Records

Posted on March 17, 2011
From the About Page for The Art of Access Blog: We?ve categorized the posts into access tips and different kinds of useful public documents, sorted by beat. We hope that over time this will serve as a useful, searchable repository...

Debunking Myths for Banning Laptops from the Law School Classroom

Posted on March 17, 2011
In Let Them Use Laptops: Debunking the Assumptions Underlying the Debate Over Laptops in the Classroom [SSRN] (Oklahoma City University Law Review, forthcoming), Temple law prof Kristen E. Murray writes: What has troubled me about the debate is that both...

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