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Pew Internet's Findings on the State of Online Video

Posted on June 16, 2010
69% of adult Internet users have watched or downloaded a video according to Pew Internet's The State of Online Video (June 2010) to do at least one of the following: Comedy or humorous videos, which have risen in viewership from...

Significant First Sale Doctrine Cases Before the Ninth Circuit

Posted on June 16, 2010
There are two cases pending decision at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that affect consumer rights (and potentially those of libraries) under the first sale doctrine. The two cases are UMG v. Augusto, and Autodesk v. Vernor. Each case...

A Blogosphere Handshake: Tom Meet Jason Wilson, Jason Meet Tom Glocer

Posted on June 15, 2010
Jason Wilson and Tom Glocer have a couple of things in common. Both are publishing executives and both are bloggers. Recently Thomson Reuters CEO Glocer wrote: When I started blogging over five years ago, one of my staff suggested that...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales tells us how to make better use of the online encyclopedia for research and teaching

Posted on June 15, 2010
Here's an audio link to an interview Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales recently did with the Chronicle's Tech Therapy columnists about how academics can make better use of Wikipedia. As the Chronicle reports, Wales sat down to "discuss the best?and worst?ways...

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Five academics weigh-in on e-books

Posted on June 15, 2010
The Chronicle of Higher Ed has asked academics from a variety of backgrounds, including one Harvard law prof, to give their opinions about e-books and e-readers. Most of them feel that e-books are best for non-work related, light reading but...

Report: Government Unlikely to Bail Out the News Industry

Posted on June 15, 2010
The FTC has held a series of workshops on the fate of journalism and newspapers in the Internet age. The latest hearing, in fact, is today at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Despite the hand wringing over consolidation...

Two CRIV Member Resignations Prompt One Question: Why Has AALL Appointed a Paid "AALL Vendor Liaison" as Gatekeeper between the Committee and Vendors?

Posted on June 14, 2010
Last month two members of CRIV tendered their resignations effective immediately. Lucy Rieger was in her third year of committee membership while Caren Biberman was still in her first year. Why? Well one may say, well, I am saying and...

Round-Up of Practitioner Blogs

Posted on June 13, 2010
San Jose Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog http://www.sanjosecriminaldefenselawyerblog.com http://www.sanjosecriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/index.xml Provides insight on criminal law opinions, cases and news in California. Published by Erik Steven Johnson. Delaware Non-Compete Law Blog http://www...

Bluebook Nerds of the World Unite!

Posted on June 12, 2010
?The Bluebook: An Open Discussion Among Editors and Librarians? will be held at the AALL Annual Meeting, on Sunday, July 11, 1:30 pm. Hat tip to Cocky Law Blog for the "nerd" thing. In a few years, after citation formats...

Blind Students Sue Law Schools Over Online Applications

Posted on June 11, 2010
The National Federation for the Blind and a small group of students who have applied to law schools or are considering applying to law schools have filed suit against four California law schools. They allege that the Law School Admissions...

Bill Status Syndication Still Missing from Thomas

Posted on June 11, 2010
Remember when CCH's Congressional Index was part of every legislative history lecture? It was the service one turned to for bill status information. Today we have Govtrack.us and Open Congress for RSS feed updates but still not Thomas. Thomas continues...

Friday Fun: Librarians Do Gaga

Posted on June 11, 2010
A big hat tip to Myndi Clive for this week's Friday Fun video feature. [JH]

Are Academic Law Library Blogs Dead?

Posted on June 11, 2010
Sarah Glassmeyer discusses the institutional law library blog (not law librarian blog) recently, noting her law library's blog, The Valpo Law Blawg, was on life support. That's putting it mildly, With the last post dated 9/1/2009, I would call it...

Are Employment Opportunities for Law Librarians on the Rise?

Posted on June 11, 2010
Is it just me or does it appear that law librarian hiring, at least in the academic sector, is picking up a bit in recent months. Few, however, appear to be entry-level positions. One thing I've noticed that is different...

"Tweet" is not a word.

Posted on June 11, 2010
That's according to an internal memorandum circulated at the New York Times asking writers not to use the noun-verb "Tweet." As the blog AWL reports: Phil Corbett, the latest standards editor at the Times . . . has issued a...

Professor Steven Pinker weighs in on the effect of information overload on the brain

Posted on June 11, 2010
In response to a series of stories this past week in the New York Times about the supposed ways in which electronic distractions are re-wiring our brains for the worse, respected cognitive psychologist Professor Steven Pinker (author of "How The...

Leafing Through a Book in Texas Can Get You In Trouble, Sometimes

Posted on June 11, 2010
Here's a Friday un-fun. A Texas public interest group filed a FOIA request with the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston to produce records involving an employment matter. The review of the records took place in what was described...

P-Books versus E-Books - a new twist on an old (in cyber-terms) debate

Posted on June 10, 2010
For those following the continuing debate about which format is "better," here's an interesting editorial for last Sunday's New York Times entitled "Further Thoughts of a Novice E-Reader." In addition to the usual criticisms regarding the tactile appeal of p-books...

2010 Best Practices for Government Libraries

Posted on June 10, 2010
Best Practices for Government Libraries 2010: The New Face of Value is now available as a free PDF download from LexisNexis. The 2010 edition includes "over 70 articles and other submissions provided by more than 60 contributors from librarians in...

Turning Critical Eyes Towards Big Capital in Legal Publishing: Market Concentration for Commercially Published State Resources Needs to be Examined (Or How to Acquire That Retirement Nest Egg)

Posted on June 09, 2010
Gary Reback, who almost single-handedly brought the antitrust weight of the federal government down on Microsoft in the 1990s, is back. This time his target is Google. According the New York Times story ,Sure, It?s Big. But Is That Bad?,...

Opening the Courts: Using Technology to Assist Pro Se Litigants

Posted on June 09, 2010
Probono.net's Kate Bladow spoke on May 25th at the Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington, DC, about courts' use of technology to help self-represented litigants, including Pro Bono Net's LawHelp Interactive service. Video here. See also the Legal Technology News story,...

Opening: Reference Librarian, Arthur Neef Law Library, Wayne State Univ.

Posted on June 09, 2010
Position Purpose: The Arthur Neef Law Library of the University Library System in Detroit, Michigan, seeks a lawyer/librarian to fill the position of reference librarian, classified as Public Services Librarian I/II. The law library is noted for its public service...

Calfornia Libraries Call For Boycott of Nature Publisher Over Price Increases

Posted on June 09, 2010
Ars Technica is reporting on the University of California Library system's attempt to organize a boycott against Nature Publishing Group because of 400% price increases for digital licenses to NPG journals. The Library and the University System generally is suffering...

BP Oil Spill Law Blog

Posted on June 09, 2010
BP has opened 25 claims offices across the gulf and sent $46 million in checks so far to some 17,500 Gulf Coast residents for their lost income. Another 17,500 claims have not been paid because of problems with claimant documentation....

Legacy Thinking at iii

Posted on June 09, 2010
In search of the perfect "discovery platform" (formally known as the OPAC), I recently turned my attention to the new Encore Synergy product touted by Innovative Interfaces as "the only discovery solution that fully integrates next-generation article discovery technology into...

Is information technology a boon or the bane of our existence?

Posted on June 09, 2010
You may have seen a few articles earlier this week from the New York Times reporting on the ways in which electronic gadgets (and internet surfing in particular) may be re-wiring our brains in ways that make us more easily...

IntelliConnect, Still Some UI Issues but Improvements Being Made: Wolter Kluwer Responds to User Complaints

Posted on June 08, 2010
Tom Boone reviews the latest iteration of Wolters Kluwer's IntelliConnect. He writes there is one aspect of the system that gives me pause: user interface. The layout of the system is something akin to a 1990's CD-ROM product running Folio...

Two Excellent Visualizations for Your Next Legislative History Lecture

Posted on June 08, 2010
Both were winners of Sunlight Lab's Design for America Contest. Clay Johnson calls the How a Bill Becomes a Law visualization amazing. Follow the link for the full-size image. And the Guide to Senate Floor Procedures is also excellent. [JH]

Beware the dangers of daisy-chaining power cords

Posted on June 08, 2010
If you don't want to run afoul of OHSA, nor start an office fire, you should read this bulletin from federal Office of Compliance on the dangers of linking together (i.e. "daisy-chaining") power cords. Most powerstrips are approved for providing...

Lost or Stolen Thumb Drive Does Not Invoke Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

Posted on June 08, 2010
Here is a curious case out of the federal court for the Eastern District of Washington. It involves damages claims made under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act generated from the unauthorized possession of a thumb drive by defendants. The...

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