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Some Thoughts on Reputation and the Web

Posted on July 22, 2010
Jeffrey Rosen posted a though provoking piece on NDTV.com called "The Web Means the End of Forgetting." It caught my eye initially because it talked about Reputation Defender, a company that's been running radio advertisements about reforming web reputations...

Today's Legal Publishing Vendor Reps May Want to Learn from the Best in the Business: Some Advice from Hein's Dick Spinelli (And a Program Suggestion for Philadelphia 2011)

Posted on July 21, 2010
One of the last scenes I witnessed in Denver before catching a cab to the airport was Hein's Dick Spinelli and Steve Roses sitting in a hotel bar enjoying a beverage (won't say what kind), both sans business suits, but...

Is the Cost of Staying Competitive in Online Legal Search Worth a "Premium" Paid by Users of WestlawNext and Soon to be Users of Lexis Advance?

Posted on July 21, 2010
Yes, "New Lexis" has an official name now. It's "Lexis Advance" (Hat tip to 3 Geeks' Greg Lambert). Should we pay a premium for them? Alan Cohen's American Lawyer article accompanying and promoting the release of AmLaw's Law Librarian Survey...

Short Takes On the News

Posted on July 21, 2010
- It can apparently be a crime to videotape police in action, in public, in some jurisdictions. Your crime may be wiretapping, or at least that's the excuse to suppress the activity. So far as I know, there is no...

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It's Not Friday, but - heck, it is summertime!

Posted on July 20, 2010
So I just couldn't wait for Friday Fun to roll around - besides, I'm trying to take Fridays off this summer in lieu of a real vacation. This pre-Friday post is about library marketing. Hopefully, you all got a kick...

Doesn't AALL charge membership dues or do you know where your SIS dues go?

Posted on July 20, 2010
To join a Special Interest Section (SIS) of AALL you pay a fee in addition to your rather hefty membership dues. That fee was $15. At the recent AALL Business meeting it was announced that the fee was now going...

New Paywall at the Times of London Shows Steep Decline in Online Viewers

Posted on July 20, 2010
Rupert Murdoch instituted a paywall at the Times Online (London) web site on June 15th. He has also blocked search engines from listing stories from the Times. Anyone connecting to the site is referred to a sign-up page requiring a...

E-books Outsell P-books on Amazon

Posted on July 20, 2010
A July 19th New York Times technology article, "E-books Top Hard Covers at Amazon," reports that Amazon is selling 180 e-books for every 100 hardcover (assume hardcover = print?) book sold. The opposite is true for my institution's monograph collection...

Please AALL, Don't Stop Paying Members for Their Expertise!

Posted on July 19, 2010
So much has been written and spoken about the vendor liaison position on CRIV and payments to a member for services connected with this position. I support transparency in AALL and think HQ should come clean and put all rumors...

A "Continental Congress" for All AALL Members Attending "Philadelphia 2011: Transparency and Accountability in the 21st Century"?

Posted on July 19, 2010
In case you missed the annual board meeting in Denver, apparently no one could come up with a catchy theme for next year's annual meeting in Philadelphia so there won't be one (!). Was "let Facts be submitted to a...

Wisconsin Rules Teacher Emails on Government Systems are Not Subject to Disclosre

Posted on July 19, 2010
The Wisconsin Supreme Court released the opinion in the case of Schill v. Wisconsin Rapids School District. I wrote about the case last September. It raised the issue of whether personal emails sent by Wisconsin teachers over the school district's...

Round-Up of Practitioner Blogs

Posted on July 18, 2010
Houston Car Accident Lawyer Blog http://www.houstoncaraccidentlawyerblog.com http://www.houstoncaraccidentlawyerblog.com/index.xml Analyzes car accident reports, news and opinions in Texas. Published by the Baumgartner Law Firm. Chicago Injury Lawyers Blog http://www...

Of Leadership and Management Institutes

Posted on July 18, 2010
The topic for this post was suggested by a librarian who I chatted with at the AALL Conference. She suggested I look into selections for these institutes. I spent a considerable amount of time researching this and agreed there was...

Reality TV Cast Members as Law School Students

Posted on July 17, 2010
"[June was] not a good month for legal types in reality television," writes ATL's Kashmir Hill. "Albie Manzo of The Real Housewives of New Jersey failed out of Seton Hall Law School. Brooklyn Law School grad Victoria Eisner of Downtown...

Friday Fun: The World Cup as Reenacted by Cats

Posted on July 16, 2010
Hat tip to LLB co-editor Mark Giangrande for finding this gem. [JH]

It Takes an Entire Law Librarian Blogosphere: The "Oxford Comma"

Posted on July 16, 2010
In addition to meeting up with old friends, former colleagues, and long-time vendor reps, one of the most enjoyable moments of the AALL Denver experience was running into fellow bloggers at the Bloggers Get Together and elsewhere, a few I've...

Reminder: Post-AALL Meeting Debriefing on Law Librarian Conversations Today

Posted on July 16, 2010
Join the Law Librarian Conversations team, Richard Leiter and Marcia Dority Baker, along with program guests, LIPA executive director Margie Maes, Ken Hirsh, and Tom Boone, today for their Post-AALL Meeting Debriefing program. Program starts ad 2:00 PM CDT...

Apple Gives Away Bumpers to Alleviate iPhone 4 Antenna Problems

Posted on July 16, 2010
Steve Jobs held a press conference today on the brewing iPhone 4 signal loss/dropped calls issue. His comments suggest that the problems were a small part of the customer service reports as compared with the previous versions of the iPhone....

Strutin's Basic Legal Research on the Internet

Posted on July 15, 2010
Ken Strutin's LRRX article, Basic Legal Research on the Internet, is, well, very basic but that doesn't imply that it is not something that wouldn't useful for members of the general public. For more, one should point members of the...

Public Law Libraries Have Value As Well

Posted on July 15, 2010
I wrote yesterday about public libraries and the need they fill for the average person as a way of showing their value to budget cutters. Law libraries, especially public law libraries, probably have even less publicity for the roles they...

Welcome to the Blogosphere, West Reference Attorneys!

Posted on July 15, 2010
While in Denver, Greg Lambert mentioned that there's a new blog in the legal blogosphere. This one is produced by West Reference Attorneys. Damn these Gen X-Yer bloggers for having the energy to be on top of the latest developments...

Survey of law firm librarians reveals budget difficulties

Posted on July 15, 2010
The Law.comfeatures a report on the results of the 9th Annual Am Law 200 Law Librarian Survey which, not surprisingly, shows BigLaw librarians having to produce more with less. Welcome to Recession 2.0. While our ninth annual survey of Am...

Study concludes students' grades don't suffer because of time spent on Facebook

Posted on July 15, 2010
That's the conclusion coming from a new study reported in today's Chronicle of Higher Ed here. Researchers at Northwestern University found no connection between time spent on social-networking sites and academic performance. The study, the results of which appear in...

From The National Jurist: "The 50 Best Law Libraries"

Posted on July 15, 2010
You'll have to click here to see TNJ's top 50 (because I'm unable to insert the page here). Click here to read the full article including the magazine's methodology. (jbl)

New and Updated GlobaLex Research Guides

Posted on July 14, 2010
New: The Legal System and Research in the Sultanate of Oman by Khalil Mechantaf Updated: Introduction to Public International Law Research by Vicen� Feli� The Exploitation of Women and Children: A Comparative Study of Human Trafficking Laws between the United...

One undergraduate library makes big shift to e-books

Posted on July 14, 2010
The Chronicle of Higher Ed is reporting that Florida's St. Leo University will have replaced 53% of its p-books with e-books come the fall. With the acquisition of a new e-book database, 53 percent of the library?s collection will consist...

Majority of Americans access internet via Wi-Fi according to recent survey

Posted on July 14, 2010
A new study by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project shows that 59% of Americans access the internet via Wi-Fi. The following is a summary of the findings based telephone interviews conducted between April 29 and May...

Fox News Asks "Is It Time For Pubic Libraries To Go?"

Posted on July 14, 2010
This item was sent to me a while back by Claire Membiela at the Cooley Law School. It's a report/editorial from Fox Chicago News titled Are Libraries Necessary, or a Waste of Tax Money? The basic premise of the story...

A Little Light Reading on Student Learning Outcomes: ABA's Revised Draft Law School Accreditation Standard

Posted on July 13, 2010
Note Interpretation 302-1 regarding legal skills instruction. [JH] American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar Standards Review Committee Student Learning Outcomes Subcommittee May 5, 2010 Draft CHAPTER 3 PROGRAM OF LEGAL EDUCATION Standard 301...

Second Circuit Throws Out FCC Indecency Policy for Vagueness

Posted on July 13, 2010
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals tossed the FCC's indecency policy in issuing fines for fleeting expletives on Constitutional grounds. The Supreme Court had originally upheld the policy but sent it back to the lower courts to consider the Constitutional...

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