Legal Research

eBook readers and library copies

Posted on September 14, 2010
3 Geeks and a Law blog has a post on which eBook reader supports borrowing eBooks from public libraries.

Bloglines is shutting down

Posted on September 11, 2010
Details on the Ask.com blog. Bloglines is shutting down effective October 1, 2010. There are details at the blog post, and details on moving your subscriptions at Bloglines.com. I'm personally sad to see this, but if you attended the Webinar that Barbara Fullerton and I put on recently, you know that you can also use Google Reader as well as other readers.

Another elephant post from 3 Geeks and a Law blog

Posted on September 09, 2010
Elephant Post: What Do You Do Well, But No One Seems To Ask You To Do It?9/9/20103 Geeks and a Law BlogAnswers from multiple perspectives.

Study habits

Posted on September 07, 2010
Interesting article on study habits. Some of the suggestions we've all heard over the years may or may not be correct.Forget What You Know About Good Study HabitsBy BENEDICT CAREYPublished: September 6, 2010New York TimesEvery September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms...

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Mysteries

Posted on August 31, 2010
Liz Petty brought this book to my attention: Murder Past Due (Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series), by Miranda James. It is available in paperback and ebook - from Barnes and Noble and in print from Amazon.com.

Follow up on the new THOMAS Share Tools

Posted on August 31, 2010
In my previous post, I linked to an announcement of the new sharing tools from the THOMAS legislative web site. Here's an example of using one of the features.Suppose you need to send a link to a house or senate bill status page to one of your patrons...

Law student guide to free legal resources

Posted on August 30, 2010
New web site with guides for students on legal research, as well as librarian resources.http://freelaw.classcaster.net/Hat tip to the Law Librarian Blog.

THOMAS Share Tools

Posted on August 30, 2010
The Library of Congress has announced a new tool for the THOMAS legislative service. Here's the introduction to the announcement:About the THOMAS Share Tool The THOMAS Share Tool allows you to print THOMAS pages and search results, subscribe to regular updates from THOMAS, and share THOMAS content in a number of ways...

UNT-Dallas

Posted on August 26, 2010
The Dallas Morning News has an article on the newly independent University of North Texas - Dallas. More information on this campus may be found at http://www.unt.edu/unt-dallas/.

Next investment opportunity

Posted on August 25, 2010
This is interesting. Toby Brown over at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog posts about a new service: litigation portfolio broker. It's happening in the US and in the UK. Read the whole post for details.

Comments on law.gov

Posted on August 24, 2010
Fastcase's CEO, Ed Walters, has a guest post on the Law Librarian Blog comparing Law.gov and Lexis/Westlaw to AOL (America Online) and the early web.

Copyright & photos

Posted on August 20, 2010
OREGON LEGAL RESEARCHby Laura OrrAugust 19, 2010"Can Someone Use My Picture Without My Permission?"Good post on the issues of copyright and photography.

Ads in Books? It's Coming...

Posted on August 20, 2010
From the Wall Street Journal:"With e-reader prices dropping like a stone and major tech players jumping into the book retail business, what room is left for publishers' profits? The surprising answer: ads. They're coming soon to a book near you."Oh no! Ads, Ads, Ads...

Dallas Public Libraries Receive Large Donation

Posted on August 20, 2010
From the Dallas News?This morning, City Hall and Comerica Bank announced that the company is donating $50,000 to adopt two libraries in Southern Dallas. The Polk-Wisdom and North Oak Cliff branch libraries will benefit from the donation at a time when City Hall has had to slash funding for library staff and materials...

"The Virtual Chase" is Back!

Posted on August 20, 2010
Two years ago Genie Tyburski's website (started in 1995), "The Virtual Chase," ended and a great resource was lost. However, there was an announcement today that the Website was relaunched this week by the legal portal Justia, which acquired the site from Tyburski...

Municipal codes

Posted on August 19, 2010
When my copy of Law Library Journal arrives, the first thing I do is turn to Mary Whisner's "Practicing Reference" column. This issue is no different. Whisner writes about the importance of local or municipal codes in answering questions covering legalities on a local level...

Speaking of RSS Feeds....

Posted on August 17, 2010
New Media News has published a list of the "Best RSS Directories and Blog Submission Sites."

New UK legislative web site

Posted on August 12, 2010
I rarely have to research United Kingdom law, but this post from the new In Custodia Legis blog from the Law Library of Congress regarding the new UK legislative web site had me in stitches. Go read it for yourself!

New Blog Resource: LOC Librarians

Posted on August 11, 2010
The LOC Librarians have started to blog!The blog, named "In Custodia Legis" can be found at http://blogs.loc.gov/law/.It's only a week old and, IMHO, the law librarians are doing a great job of blogging relevant information.Yesterday's entry gave some wonderful information on how to find UK legal information.

ABA Report on US News and World Report Rankings

Posted on August 10, 2010
The ABA commissioned a report on the issue of the U.S. News and World Report Rankings. Below is a snippet from the first page of the 65 page report and bibliography.July 15, 2010Report of the Special Committee on the U.S. News and World Report RankingsSection on Legal Education and Admissions to the BarHon...

Good-bye STAT-USA

Posted on August 10, 2010
STAT-USA Office to Cease Operations September 30, 2010 From the website: After 25 years of service, "The STAT-USA/Internet website and our syndication services will no longer be available after September 30. To assist our customers in locating the data that STAT-USA/Internet has provided, by August 15 we will post a transition page with links to the data sources...

Online Session: Utilizing RSS Feeds

Posted on August 10, 2010
FOR DALL MEMBERSTitle: Keeping Current--Utilizing RSS FeedsPlace: Online SeminarLength: 20 MinutesInstructors: Jennifer Stephens & Barbara FullertonDate: Wednesday, Aug. 18thTime: 10 a.m. CSTDuring this session, attendees will learn:1. What is a RSS Feed 2...

Kagan confirmed as 4th woman on SCOTUS

Posted on August 06, 2010
Senate Confirms Kagan To U.S. Supreme Courtby Liz HalloranNPRAugust 5, 2010The U.S. Senate by a 63-37 vote on Thursday confirmed Elena Kagan as the nation's 112th Supreme Court justice and its fourth-ever female member ?- but, as predicted, with just a handful of votes from Republican senators...

Legal outsourcing

Posted on August 04, 2010
Attorneys are moving from the West to India.Legal Outsourcing Pulls Western Talent to IndiaNew York Timesby Heather TimmonsAugust 4, 2010NOIDA, INDIA ? As an assistant attorney general for New York State, Christopher Wheeler used to spend most of his time arguing in courtrooms in New York City...

Print and electronic resources

Posted on August 03, 2010
Greg Lambert has a post over at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog titled "Tying Print & Electronic Resources - Is It Too Late To Save Print?" dated 8/3/2010. In his post, Greg wonders if more researchers would use print resources if there were some sort of link or icon in our favorite online legal resources showing that the print version were available in the library collection...

Congratulations Laura Justiss!

Posted on August 03, 2010
I would like to congratulate Laura, a long time DALL member, on the acceptance of her paper "A Survey of Electronic Research Alternatives to Lexis and Westlaw in Law Firms" by the SMU Law Paper Series in SSRN.Laura began this paper last winter when she surveyed the members of the Private Law Librarians Special Interest Group seeking information on electronic resource alternatives to Lexis and

FederalRegister.gov goes live

Posted on July 29, 2010
FederalRegister.gov is now online, in time to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the publication. This new web site has a number of ways to find items in the FR: Search Browse Section Topic Agency Dates Current issue Notices Proposed Rules Rules Presidential Documents Each individual document can be seen in HTML, with links to PDF and XML versions...

From an email posted to law-lib

Posted on July 26, 2010
From an email posted to law-lib from Andrew Zimmerman - he has a blog now in addition to his famous research guide. The ZRG Blog http://zimmermansguide.wordpress.com/ Zimmerman's Research Guide http://law.lexisnexis.com/infopro/zimmermans/

Short speeches

Posted on July 21, 2010
This article on law.com ties in with several sessions I attended at AALL this year. The sessions were talking more about visual presentations (aka PowerPoint), stressing less is more, and staying on each slide for 20 or fewer seconds. Brevity Is One Key to Internet-Era Speaking Joey Asher Fulton County Daily Report July 21, 2010 The last 50 years in public speaking have been the JFK/Ronald

Sneak peek - new Lexis

Posted on July 19, 2010
Greg Lambert of 3 Geeks and a Law Blog has a post about the forthcoming Lexis Advance.

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