Legal Research

Kindle and the Law Library: What else is new?

Posted on November 25, 2007
Amazon’s launch of the Kindle reader has generated a flurry of commentary, both pro and con. Mark Pilgrim’s November 19 blog post about Kindle, “The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts),” has already achieved internet fame. While many Kindle reviewers have focused on its quality, functionality and value for the price, Pilgrim’s post [...

New in the Literature: Academic Lawyers? Information Seeking Study

Posted on November 10, 2007
The current issue of the IEEE-TCDL Bulletin includes an article by Ph.D. student Stephann Makri about his study of U.K. academic lawyers and their use of LexisNexis Professional and Westlaw. His results support previous studies that have found significant deficiencies in the way lawyers use these systems...

Cornell Law Library 2.0

Posted on October 28, 2007
The Nellco Legal Scholarship Repository (http://lsr.nellco.org/) now offers a beautiful slide show from Cornell Law Library’s 2007 Starr Workshop. The presentation, authored by Cornell Law Library’s Sasha Skenderija, is called, “How to Present Web-Based Legal Information: Towards Library Web 2...

Should law librarians teach tagging?

Posted on October 19, 2007
Social Research Management (SRM) web services such as LibraryThing (http://www.librarything.com), del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us/), CiteULike (http://www.citeulike.org/) and Connotea (http://www.connotea.com) allow people to save, organize, annotate, and publicly share URLs to web resources of interest to them...

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LawLibraryThing?

Posted on October 07, 2007
One of the most mind-blowing things about Library 2.0 is the push to bring all the world’s literature together in — or at least accessible from — a single place. Tim Spalding is one of the pioneers of this mission. He is the creator of “LibraryThing” (http://www...

The net neutrality debate in a nutshell

Posted on September 24, 2007
Following up on my last post about net neutrality, this BBC News article gives a very brief synopsis of the major issues and players in the net neutrality debate in the United States. We have AT&T, Verizon, and the Department of Justice on one side versus Microsoft and Google on the other...

Net Neutrality, Net Diversity, and the Future of Legal Research

Posted on September 14, 2007
The subject of net neutrality came up on Capitol Hill Wednesday, as Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., took on FTC Chairman Deborah Majoras at a reauthorization hearing by the subcommittee on Interstate Commerce [see article in PC Magazine. Dorgan is pushing for net neutrality legislation while the FTC has urged legislators not to rush to action...

Whither neutral citation?

Posted on September 08, 2007
I’ve been reading this week about the birth, death, and possible rebirth of the vendor-neutral citation movement. Proponents believe that neutral citation of judicial opinions in a free web environment will support equal access to justice by putting more legal information into the hands of all lawyers and the public...

Is context dead?

Posted on August 22, 2007
I?m just getting the chance to read my Spring 2007 issue of Law Library Journal (vol. 99, no. 2).   (Yes, it?s been a busy summer!)  I?m so pleased to see that the issue is devoted to the teaching and writings of Bob Berring (UCLA Boalt Hall).  Berring is among the main reasons I?m a law [...