Legal Research

A First, I Think: Law Prof?s Tweet Cited in Brief

Posted on September 29, 2010
Hat tip to Legal Writing Prof Blog for calling attention to this. See Josh Blackman's Blog post for details on the citation to a tweet by UCLA law prof Adam Winkler to refute an interpretation of a law review article...

USCprelim: Pilot Project to Update Online USC Titles Faster Launched With IRC

Posted on September 29, 2010
In Is There a Future for an e-USC? Law Library Lights, 9 (Winter 2010), Andy Zimmerman and Trevor Rosen asked "would it be possible for the OLRC to create an e-USC along the same lines of the e-CFR?" By way...

Engaging in Profitable Labor: Help Change the World of Electronic Production, Distribution and Access to Legal Information Now

Posted on September 29, 2010
It took the initiative of NOCALL and "the ground-breaking effort led by Erika Wayne at Stanford University?s Robert Crown Law Library and Carl Malamud of PublicResource.Org to develop a national inventory of all primary legal resources at every level of...

When Is a Library Like a Prison?

Posted on September 29, 2010
Aside from any other comparisons, when the management of both institutions is outsourced. Cash-strapped governments have leased assets or turned over some services to private companies as a way of keeping their costs down. Now the trend has hit some....

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Blio eReader Software for Windows Set To Launch Today

Posted on September 28, 2010
Check the Blio website for details on the free download. At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, CNET's Ina Fried interviewed Ray Kurzweil. The Blio demo starts at 2:25 in the below video. Highlights include preserving book formatting, excellent text-to-speech...

Feasting on the Carcass: The push by TR Legal to pitch new titles as "ancillary" in the Shed West Era

Posted on September 28, 2010
Recently LLB contributing editor, Vicki Szymczak (Brooklyn Law School Library Director) broke the story that there is a new game afoot from TR Legal. She titled the post, New Publication Model for West. I would have called it "Oh Boy,...

Are Law Libraries In Decline? I Don't Think So

Posted on September 28, 2010
I came across a press release for the expansion of Yuin University's law library services. The law library is now open to members of the public. While I congratulate the school on the expansion of public services, I have some...

It's Banned Books Week: ALA's Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2009

Posted on September 27, 2010
Banned Books Week, September 25?October 2, is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association; American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; the American Library Association; American Society of Journalists and Authors; Association of American Publishers; and the National Association of College Stores...

Google's Project 10^100 Awards LAW.GOV $2 Million to Make Government More Transparent

Posted on September 27, 2010
A big hat tip to Erika Wayne for calling attention to LAW.GOV being awarded $2 million by Google as part of the Company's Project 10^100. From Google's September 24th announcement: Idea: Make government more transparent Project funded: Public.Resource...

Judge Allows Discovery of Deleted Facebook Information

Posted on September 27, 2010
There's a case out of New York State called Romano v. Steelcase, Inc. that touches on the limits of Internet privacy. It's also another cautionary tale of sharing information on a social site. The issue in the case involved the...

Ask Shutting Down Bloglines This Coming Friday

Posted on September 27, 2010
Ask.com announced earlier in the month that it is shutting down Bloglines on Friday, October 1. Bloglines was acquired by Ask in 2005 when RSS was more relevant for individuals acquiring news information via the web. According the Ask's blog,...

Timeline of Learning Machines

Posted on September 26, 2010
Check out the New York Time's graphic history of classroom technology from the original horn-book circa 1650 to the iPad. Hat tip to Resource Shelf. [JH]

Round-Up of Practitioner Blogs

Posted on September 26, 2010
Maritime Injury Attorney Blog http://www.maritimeinjuryattorneyblog.com http://www.maritimeinjuryattorneyblog.com/index.xml Reviews maritime injury news, reports and cases in Florida. Published by Rivkind, Pedraza & Margulies, PA. California Elder Abuse Lawyer Blog http://www...

One for Aging Hippies: Marijuana Legalization as a Civil Rights Issue

Posted on September 25, 2010
This post would be those who still remember when a three-finger bag cost $20-25 if it wasn't ditch weed. Note to the authorities: I have no idea what the street price is today. I switched to Guinness a very long...

Friday Fun: Study Like a Scholar, Scholar in the Library

Posted on September 24, 2010
This video was created by the BYU Library. Hat tip to Mark Wojcik (John Marshall, Chicago), Legal Writing Prof Blog. [JH]

What Can Be Done to Lessen the Anxiety that Legal Researchers Suffer During the Research Process?

Posted on September 24, 2010
Ted Tjaden is soliciting comments on this topic in his Reducing Research Anxiety in the Legal Research Process on Slaw. He writes I have several hypotheses I would want to test through further study: 1) Hypothesis #1: Legal researchers suffer...

Cheezborger, Cheezborger, Cheezborger: They're better than hunting-gathering in the wilds

Posted on September 24, 2010
Anyone ever go to the Billy Goat Tavern in Chicago? I used to eat there daily when during a break from my so-called "law librarian career" I worked for the Chicago Tribune. Cross Michigan Blvd, walk down the steps to...

Celebrate Everything from the "Lowly Comma" to the "Ever-Mysterious Ellipsis" This National Punctuation Day

Posted on September 24, 2010
Yes, today is National Punctuation Day. Actually it is the seventh annual event designed to promote the proper use of punctuation marks. Hat tip to Legal Writing Prof Blog. [JH]

New Publication Model for West

Posted on September 23, 2010
Since the beginning of the year, I have been trying to get ALR-INT online. I was told it was not available on an educational account; however, I was also told that if I purchased it, it would be made available...

Why the Internet Works: "The seeming schism between 'private' and 'common' [ought not be taken] too seriously."

Posted on September 23, 2010
One of the law prof bloggers who was omitted from a recent NLJ special Law School Report supplement titled "A look at professors who have made blogging a mainstream medium" was New York Law School's James Grimmelmann. See LLB's On...

Moving from First to Second Generation Digital Repository Systems

Posted on September 23, 2010
In operation as a production system since 2006, the Stanford Digital Repository has grown to support more than 80 TB of text, manuscripts, images, maps, GIS data, and audio-visual content. It serves as the preservation repository for significant collections from...

Another SCOTUS Justice Publishes

Posted on September 23, 2010
I'm not sure that "Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View (Knopf (September 14, 2010)] is a tour de force of history and philosophy, offering an original approach to interpreting the Constitution that judges, lawyers, and scholars will look to...

Friday Fun On A Thursday Night: GPO's First Comic Book

Posted on September 23, 2010
The Government Printing Office has ventured into the world of comic books. Here's the description from the site: Squeaks Discovers Type! is the story of a video game space mouse who helps an elementary student Jake discover the invention of...

My Thoughts on the AALL FAQ on SIS Fees

Posted on September 22, 2010
AALL sent out a FAQ saying the AALL Petition on SIS Fees will cause them to have to withdraw some support from the Special Interest Sections because they will lose approximately $25,000 a year (the FAQ says they pull in...

On First Bookless Library Claims and "Embedded Librarians"

Posted on September 22, 2010
The University of Texas at San Antonio?s new Applied Engineering and Technology Library claims to be the first bookless library according to Inside Higher Ed's A Truly Bookless Library. It's entire on-site collection is only available electronically. That's 425,000 e-books...

Outcomes-Based Approaches to Articulating Library Value to External Audiences

Posted on September 22, 2010
The primary objective of ACRL's The Value of Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Research Review and Report (September 2010) "is to provide academic librarians and institutional leaders with a clearer understanding of what research about the performance of academic libraries already...

I've Got Them Law School Graduate Job Blues Again Mama

Posted on September 22, 2010
What seemed a steady drip of articles about the low job prospects of current law students now seems to turn into a steady flow. Type the words "law school" into the search box of any news aggregator and the results...

New Law Vendor CEO in Town: Tom Glocer, Andy Prozes and Paul Wojcik Meet Stacey Caywood, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory

Posted on September 21, 2010
Stacey Caywood was promoted to CEO of Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory, effective yesterday. Not too shabby for someone who has only been with the Company for 18 years. Past gigs include President and CEO of Wolters Kluwer Law &...

Where Do We Stand in Use, Acquistion Interest and Market Penetration of Law eBooks? Results of LLB Poll

Posted on September 21, 2010
With the introduction of eReaders and triple-digit annual sales increases in eBooks, it is fair to say that the eBook is now mainstream for consumers. Also becoming, if not already is, mainstream in public libraries. See, for example, 60,000 new...

RIP the effinglibrarian blog, 2007-2010

Posted on September 21, 2010
And here's the September 8th sign-off post. Two days later, the effinglibrarian posted At the E-book Burning on LISNews and it was the most popular user submitted post of the week! Long time LLB readers may recall that way back...

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