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Friday Fun: Attack of the Reference Question: Kindle Junkies Take Note, Librarians Note the Hair Style

Posted on September 10, 2010
With a hat tip to LLB's co-editor, Mark Giangrande. [JH]

Three Cheers for the Canadian eLaw Experience

Posted on September 10, 2010
Patrick Cormier concluded his 5-part series of Slaw posts on court website design guidelines on Sept 1st. His last post links to all early ones in the series. A little background about Cormier, albeit some four years old can be...

New and Updated Research Guides from GlobaLex

Posted on September 10, 2010
The long-term and consistently excellent new and update research guides from GlobaLex is simply amazing considering how web resources come and go. Here's the lastest. New Research Guides: The Inter-American System of Human Rights: A Research Guide by Cecilia Cristina...

9th Circuit Says No First Sale on "Licensed" Software - Implications Abound

Posted on September 10, 2010
The First Sale Doctrine took a hit today in the Ninth Circuit with the release of the opinion in the case Vernor v. Autodesk (09-35969). The issue in the case was whether software Vernor acquired was licensed to his source...

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Law Prof as Independent Law Book Publisher: Quid Pro Books' Alan Childress Interview (Part 2)

Posted on September 09, 2010
Yesterday, we published the first part of our interview with Tulane law prof and co-editor of Legal Profession Blog, Alan Childress, about his new publishing venture, Quid Pro Books. We left off with a discussion of Alan's new work The...

World Legal Information Institute Launches What May Be the Most Comprehensive International Law Library

Posted on September 09, 2010
A big hat tip to Cocky Law Blawg for calling attention to the World LII's International Law Library. The International Law Library has been developed with the assistance of all LIIs whose databases are searchable via WorldLII. The International Law...

Law Prof as Independent Law Book Publisher: An Interview with Alan Childress, Founder of Quid Pro Books

Posted on September 08, 2010
From the Quid Pro Books? Publisher Information page: Our books are sold on Amazon, iTunes, Barnes & Noble, Sony, and Smashwords, and are read on free apps for PC and PC laptops or netbooks, Mac, iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, Android phones,...

On Unintended Consequences: Tenured Law Profs Who Helped Make Blogging a Mainstream Medium in the Legal Academy

Posted on September 08, 2010
The NLJ writes "[j]ust five years ago, the notion of law professors delivering quick and cogent commentary to the masses ? with the opportunity for instant feedback, no less ? was a novel concept." in a special Law School Report...

Law and LIS Materials in iTunes U and YouTube EDU

Posted on September 08, 2010
Now that the academic fall semester has begun, it seems appropriate to point out some of the legal and library materials that appear on iTunes University and YouTube EDU. The trend is for universities to share lectures on substantive subjects...

PLL Summit II Coming to Philadelphia: Calling All Private Law Librarians

Posted on September 08, 2010
Exciting news! There will be an all day PLL Summit II in Philadelphia on Saturday, July 23, 2011. Stay tuned for information on theme, speakers and the webinars that will be held leading up to the summit. If you would...

The Saga of Garbage In, Garbage Out Continues: Employment Data Reported by Law Schools is "Junk"

Posted on September 07, 2010
Although US News has changed its ranking method to try to overcome law school gaming of employment data, critics argue the unaudited reported data is just plain "junk." See National Jurist's Employment Data Under Fire. Hat tip to TaxProf Blog....

Let the Battle of Law Library Association Website Redesigns Begin: CALL/ACDB v. AALL

Posted on September 07, 2010
Hat tip to Michel-Adrien Sheppard (aka Library Boy) for calling attention to the Canadian Association of Law Library's decision to redesign its website. Crosby Group Consulting has been engaged by the CALL/ACDB Executive Board to redesign the its website...

More Enhancements to THOMAS

Posted on September 07, 2010
The latest THOMAS enhancements according to a recent law-lib message posted by Emily Carr, Legal Reference Specialist, Law Library of Congress, include the following: THOMAS now has a mobile-friendly homepage that will display on devices with lower screen resolutions like...

Put Your Writer's Cap On

Posted on September 06, 2010
And check out ALA's Writing and Publishing: The Librarian's Handbook edited by Carol Smallwood (ALA Editions, 2010). Two snips from the Forward by Bob Blanchard (Adult Services Librarian, Des Plaines Public Library): [I]t is the written word that likely is...

Ouch! A Legal Analysis of On-the-Job Penis Injuries in the Porn Industry

Posted on September 05, 2010
The Legal Satyricon provides that, citing case law on the precise issue no less, along with details too painful to reiterate here. See Broken Penises and the Law with a big hat tip Above the Law. What the heck, a...

Round-Up of Practitoner Blogs

Posted on September 05, 2010
New York Injury Attorneys Blog http://www.newyorkinjuryattorneysblog.com http://www.newyorkinjuryattorneysblog.com/index.xml Reports on injury law news, cases and opinions in New York. Published by the Law Offices of Michael H. Joseph, PLLC. St. Louis Injury Lawyers Blog http://www...

Texas Tech Law Library Launches Digital Repository

Posted on September 04, 2010
The DSpace-based TTU School of Law Digital Repository created by the Law Library "currently has over 900 records including the faculty scholarship collection. This is a comprehensive compilation of our faculty scholarship record. It includes a complete collection of our...

A Little Weirdness Going on at Buffalo?

Posted on September 04, 2010
"I am not aware of any case in which a major research university has had a non-academic appointed as Interim Preident," writes Brian Leiter in What's going on at Buffalo? UB Council Chairman Jeremy M. Jacobs announced that Scott D....

Friday Fun: Too Early in the 2010/11 Law School Academic Year to Worry About Grades?

Posted on September 03, 2010
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On Punching Holes: If So-Called "Loose-leaf" Services are a Pain in the Ass According to TR Legal, What about Pocket-Part Supplemented Titles?

Posted on September 03, 2010
To recap LLB's earlier post, A TR Legal Print Format Switcheroo: More to Come? TR Legal claims that the "conversion to pamphlet format [from looseleaf format] stems from customer feedback West received regarding the benefits of pamphlet over looseleaf format...

Reminder Just in Time for the Labor Day Weekend: AALL/BNA Grant Proposals Due September 9th; Next Round Due Nov. 4th

Posted on September 03, 2010
The deadline for submitting proposals for the current round of AALL/BNA Continuing Education Grants is September 9, 2010. The next round of grant proposals will be due on November 4, 2010. The AALL/BNA Continuing Education grants program is open to...

At least wait until after the defense puts on its case before Facebook-ing "gonna be fun to tell the defendant they're GUILTY"

Posted on September 03, 2010
Sounds like the prosecutor was very, very persuasive. The Facebook post was discovered by the teenage son of the defense attorney. The juror, of course, was booted out of the jury box and the judge sentenced her to write a...

When are eReaders a Good Deal? How about when eBooks are updated to fix production errors

Posted on September 02, 2010
On the WSJ ROI blog, Brett Arends provides advice on personal finance matters. Recently, he offered several tips on whether eReaders are a good deal. He recommends that casual readers should save their money simply by not joining the eReader...

Law School Launches Pilot Program Using iPads

Posted on September 02, 2010
Monterey College of Law has launched a pilot program with BAR BRI that provides iPads to student who enroll in the BAR BRI supplemental curriculum program. Students use the iPads while attending school and in preparation for the California Bar...

What Happened in Vegas Should Also Happen in AALL's Annual Meetings

Posted on September 02, 2010
3 Geeks' guest blogger, Ayelette Robinson, reports on her assessment of the International Legal Technology Association recent meeting at What Happened in Vegas Shouldn't Stay in Vegas: "With hundreds of truly high-quality sessions, and networking opportunities live and virtual galore,...

"E*trade" for Legal Services: "Because Good Enough Isn?t Yet Good Enough"

Posted on September 01, 2010
David Curle, Director & Lead Analyst at Outsell, an information industry consulting firm, has been thinking out loud on his blog, Lex Disruptus, and that's what blogging is about. If you don't know who he is, here's a link to...

Practicing Law in NOLA Five Years After Katrina

Posted on September 01, 2010
A snip from Leigh Jones' NLJ story, Beyond Katrina: Five years later, New Orleans lawyers are finding their way: Four months after the hurricane, 5,352 attorneys had offices in New Orleans, according to Martindale.com. That number has dropped by 19%....

Contractors at Westlaw: How Many, Doing What and For How Long?

Posted on September 01, 2010
So for sometime, every time TRI CEO Tom Glocer's name was mentioned in an LLB post, someone would rant and rave under a pseudonym. In general, LLB does publish comments posted this way but these were not published because they...

LexisNexis Launches Another Integration with Microsoft Applications

Posted on August 31, 2010
Following up on the Spring launch of Lexis for Microsoft Office, comes LN's InterAction 6.0 for Microsoft Outlook. The service will launch in December 2010 and provides users with access to their firm?s InterAction CRM data directly within the e-mail,...

Legal eBooks and the Institutional Buyer: An LLB Poll on Use, Acquisition Interest and Market Penetration

Posted on August 31, 2010
Since the advent of full-text search in the late 1970s-early 1980s, law libraries have tended to be at the forefront of technological innovation in the provision of resources to its users. When one reads what general public libraries are doing...

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