Legal Research

"New on LLRX.com, June, 2010"

From an email newsletter by Sabrina Pacifici:

"Employment Online Resources

http://www.llrx.com/features/employmentonlineresources2010.htm

This guide for researchers by Marcus P. Zillman is a comprehensive bibliography of resources and sites comprising the latest and most comprehensive, reliable content and value added information currently available on this subject via the Internet.

Basic Legal Research on the Internet

http://www.llrx.com/features/basiclegalresearchinternet.htm

This article explores the corner of the Internet landscape that concentrates on legal research. For the most part, these databases and search tools are free, although some might require a library card. Essentially, this is a short list of "go to" sites that most researchers will find useful. Before delving in, author Ken Strutin also examines a few time tested research concepts for the Internet age.

Problems with Creating a Course to Help Colleagues

http://www.llrx.com/features/courseforcolleagues.htm

How many times have you wondered how to do a task or work with software? You feel wonderful once you have found a colleague who could share their "know-how" about how to complete that task more efficiently or how to implement an applications that does not have a manual that makes sense to you. Lorette S.J. Weldon focuses on four factors to consider when you want to share your knowledge on your own: cost; timing; equipment and global presentation.

FOIA Facts - Ideas for Faster FOIA Processing

http://www.llrx.com/columns/foia60.htm

Scott A. Hodes notes that in the current Congress there are bills pending that would create a commission to come up with ideas for faster FOIA processing. He contends that by taking those ideas, along with a few days of congressional oversight hearings to solicit other opinions, Congress would have ample information to create an actual bill that would implement faster FOIA processing now rather than wait for a "commission" to come up with these same ideas.

What is Open Source?

http://www.llrx.com/features/opensource2.htm

In the past few years, the term open source has been bandied about not just in library-land, but in every industry. When a term is talked about this much, some would say to the point of overuse, people start to think it's a fad. In this and upcoming articles, Nicole C. Engard is here on LLRX to tell you that open source is no fad, and why."

Source: Pacifici, Sabrina. "New on LLRX.com for June 2010." Copyright © LLRX TM, Law Library Resource Xchange, LLC. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://www.llrx.com/subscribe.htm>.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on July 06, 2010 (boomark / email).