Legal Research

EPA Libraries to Open
The EPA libraries that were abruptly closed and had their collections banished to remote storage units are now set to re-open thanks to the opposition raised by constituents across the country...

EPA Libraries
Thanks to Laura Orr at Oregon Legal ResearchPress release from the American Library Association (ALA) here:?This week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was ordered by Congress to re-open many of its libraries that had been closed over the course of the past year, as written into the fiscal year 2008 omnibus appropriations bill sent to President Bush this week...

eIFL.net on Open Access, Open Education, and Creative Commons
In April, ccLearn crossed telephone lines with Italy and Ukraine for the first time. Executive Director Ahrash Bissell spoke with eIFL.net, Electronic Information for Libraries, an international nonprofit organization whose interests, among many, lie in open access publishing and fair and balanced intellectual property laws for libraries...

Building Libraries in the Age of Google
Slate has an interesting piece concerning the architecture of public libraries and how the communal meeting place that libraries have always been, enhanced by unique and often historical styles, maybe the salvation of disappearing libraries in the Age of Google...

LC Report Urges Libraries to Update Cataloging Strategies
Interesting article from the Chronicle: "Libraries need to share records more with one another, make greater use of the Web, and bring more attention to their special collections, according to a report released this month by the Library of Congress...

Report to Congress Lays out Plans to Rebuild Physical Collections, Staff Libraries, and Continue to Work with Stakeholders on Future Digitization Plan
News release: "The Special Libraries Association (SLA) today met with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials to review the agency's...

Nationwide Recall Of All Lots Of Tylenol Arthritis Pain 100 Count With Ez-Open Cap
Tylenol Arthritis Pain 100 Count With Ez-Open Cap All Lots Recalled Nationally

Wegmans Food Market
alleging the retailer revealed too much information on their credit and debit card receipts, violating the FACTA law, and leaving customers open to identity theft