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What's Popular at 2010 AALL

Posted on June 25, 2010
One of the nice features of the Annual Conference is the online conference planner. The conference planner (an idea that originated with librarian Tom Boone at an earlier conference and was wisely adopted by AALL) lets you select the programs,...

In the Cloud by 2020

Posted on June 24, 2010
A solid majority of technology experts and stakeholders say they expect they will ?live mostly in the cloud? in 2020 and not on the desktop according to Pew Internet's recent survey, The Future of Cloud Computing. While large businesses may...

A Corrective to Legal Research Performed Through Traditional Means

Posted on June 24, 2010
"Legal research beyond case law ... offers opportunities for judges and lawmakers to better gauge the real impact of the policies they promote" writes Jeremy Patrick, a Ph.D. candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School, in Beyond Case Reporters: Using Newspapers...

Kudos to the Tech Staff in the Westlaw "Bunker"

Posted on June 24, 2010
Well, that was interesting. Today's Westlaw outage was apparently caused by a UN/PW addressing malfunction but the Westlaw IT staff in the "bunker" had it fixed in a matter of a couple of hours. Apparently the outage was nationwide. The...

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Drats, No TR Legal Inmate Orange Jumpsuits Allowed in Denver

Posted on June 24, 2010
The June 2010 Annual Meeting Update reminds attendees that "recommended dress for the conference is business casual." Drats! Guess I better cancel my request for TR Legal orange jumpsuits from our county Sheriff's office. The update provides this link for...

Just Connect the Bubbles Dots That Are Leading to Touch-Based Desktop Computing

Posted on June 23, 2010
I, for one, haven't bought into the iPhone craze. I'm not paying AT&T because 10-plus years ago the old AT&T resisted the whole 3G thing simply because it did not want to pay QCOM licensing fees for a better chip...

Leiter's 2010 Ranking of Top 40 Law Schools by Student Numerical Quality

Posted on June 23, 2010
Chicago law prof Brian Leiter's latest ranking of the top 40 schools in terms of student quality as measured by the average of the 75th and 25th percentile LSAT scores for the full-time class that entered in fall 2009 shows...

Opening: Associate Dean for Library and Technology Services, St. John's Univ. School of Law

Posted on June 23, 2010
St. John?s University School of Law seeks applications for the position of Associate Dean for Library and Technology Services and Research Professor of Law, which will be advertised at the AALL Annual Meeting Placement Office in Denver. Two members of...

OMG! Google Wins Against Viacom In $1BN Copyright Suit

Posted on June 23, 2010
Round 1 to Google. Judge Louis L. Stanton agreed with Google that it was covered by the DMCA safe harbor rules against Viacom's arguments that Google had actual knowledge of infringement on YouTube and ignored it, this depriving Google of...

What exactly is Bing's "decision engine" and how does it work?

Posted on June 23, 2010
Microsoft has just upped the ante in the search engine war (or maybe not according to most reader comments) with the introduction of Bing's new "decision-engine" search interface which is designed to help users find results they may not know...

A new guide to help scholars navigate copyright issues in connection with their research.

Posted on June 23, 2010
According to the Chronicle of Higher Ed: Communications scholars often fret over the legal nuances of using copyrighted material in their research, says Pat Aufderheide, a professor of communication at American University and director of its Center for Social Media...

More Thoughts On LAW.GOV

Posted on June 23, 2010
I read Joes's post on Kent McKeever's proposal concerning LAW.GOV. I would agree with some of the ideas for the site if one of the assumptions for it is that the courts accepted officially produced and verifiable online primary legal...

Staying the Course with LAW.GOV: Let's Not Entertain Scaled-Back Objectives that Leaves the Rest to the Private Sector

Posted on June 22, 2010
When proposed to Congress I would expect WEXIS lobbyists to pitch some sort of scaled-down version of LAW.GOV (although they too would be beneficiaries of LAW.GOV as currently proposed) but not a law librarian making such a suggestion as Kent...

What is MyHein & How to Use It: HeinOnline Webinar Set for June 24

Posted on June 22, 2010
The webinar's agenda: What is MyHein How does MyHein work with a HeinOnline Subscription How to create an account and accessibility options Accessing the MyHein menu after logging in Bookmarking articles and documents: From the document level, From search results...

Will the Price War for Low-end eReaders Lead to Their Demise?

Posted on June 22, 2010
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that yesterday Barnes & Noble cut the price of Nook to $199 from $259 and introduced a Wi-Fi only model for $149. Amazon responded by slashing its $259 standard Kindle to $189. Take that!...

Some Thoughts on Programming at the AALL Conference

Posted on June 21, 2010
I'm Caren Biberman, the newest contributing editor to this Blog. I've been in the legal field for 30 years, first as a practicing attorney and then for the last 17 years as a law librarian. My first full time job...

Following Labor-Management Relations at Thomson Reuters

Posted on June 21, 2010
In Offshore "Information Factories" in Legal Publishing, I mentioned that of the 700-plus TR Legal layoffs executed in recent months or planned to occur by the end of the year, I was curious to know whether any of those jobs...

Profs - Be careful what you post on Facebook!

Posted on June 21, 2010
Apparently many people, including some profs, need to be reminded to double-check those privacy settings on their Facebook accounts before blasting into the ether status updates that last for time immemorial. This story from the Chronicle of Higher Education is...

HP To Sell Printers With Email Address: Meet the New Tech (In)Convenience

Posted on June 21, 2010
The trend in technology these days is mobility. Steve Jobs said that the PC is the truck of the computing industry, while mobile devices are cars. There are more cars out there that trucks these days. Steve Ballmer countered that...

It's the End of the World as We Know

Posted on June 20, 2010
Got to love ATL's commentary on the WSJ journal story entitled Swiss Clear UBS Path To Name U.S. Clients. Go here to view it. [JH]

No Need to Cite to Tamanaha to Prove Law Profs are a Huge Part of the Problem

Posted on June 19, 2010
On ATL, Elie Mystal writes in Law Professors: If You?re Not Part of the Solution Then You?re A Huge Freaking Problem: Rarely, if ever, does the media turn its gaze towards law professors and their culpability in the epic scam...

Friday Fun: Making a Responsible Choice for My Future

Posted on June 18, 2010
A big hat tip to Law is Cool for this way too brief little gem. Marshall from How I Met Your Mother sings about law school. But then the nightmare begins when Marshall gets an offer. [JH]

The "Greatest" Law Review Articles Ever Written

Posted on June 18, 2010
And they are: "The Jurisprudence of Yogi Berra" 39 Coauthors, 46 EMORY L. J. 697 (1997). Each author demonstrates the legal acumen of a Yogi quote. "The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule" Aside (William S. Stevens), 123...

Amazon Gets A Patent Covering Social Networking

Posted on June 18, 2010
Did anyone know that social networking is patentable? I imagine a patent inspector at the PTO saying, "sure, why not?" Amazon just received a patent that describes the basics of a computerized social networking platform. It's patent 7,739,139 issued by...

AALL on the AALL Vendor Liaison Issue: "AALL vendor liaison would provide more legitimacy for CRIV"

Posted on June 17, 2010
How many think CRIV has a legitimacy issue? Please raise your hands. How many think the AALL Executive Board has more of a legitimacy issue? Raise your hands. Do note that one reason given for needing an "AALL Vendor Liaison"...

What PACER Fee Revenue Finances

Posted on June 17, 2010
"EPA (Electronic Public Access) funds are collected solely via PACER fees, and are expended on a variety of programs. One of these expenditures is the PACER program itself, but many other expenditures are not," writes Steve Schultze, Associate Director of...

Law Review Articles, Not Worth the Paper Printed on for Addressing Issues Confronting the Judiciary

Posted on June 17, 2010
From the conclusion of The Wit, Wisdom, and Worthlessness of Law Reviews by Gerald F. Uelmen, law prof and former dean at Santa Clara University School of Law: [T]here are still a few law professors who would rather publish for...

SCOTUS Decides Public Sector Electronic Privacy Case

Posted on June 17, 2010
One of the major cases of the current Supreme Court term came out today. The case is City of Ontario v. Quom. The case involved the expectation of privacy in the use of a police department issued pager to one...

120% Increase in Web of Science Leads to New Open Access Project

Posted on June 16, 2010
Sometimes we get tied up in our own world of legal publishing and forget that our colleagues in other types of libraries are fighting similar battles in their negotiations with vendors - and showing a lot more teeth than we...

The Book Big Legal Publishers Don't Want You to Read: 2010 Edition of Legal Information Buyer's Guide & Reference Manual Now Available

Posted on June 16, 2010
As I've said before, Ken Svengalis is every law librarian's best friend because his annual Legal Information Buyer's Guide & Reference Manual really is "the book that the Big Legal Publishers don?t want you to read." Each annual edition takes...

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