New from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). August 28, 2023 – Cost Estimate. Summary. S. 2256 would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish a cybersecurity apprenticeship program to recruit and hire people to perform information technology and cybersecurity roles for the department. DHS also would provide apprentices…
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The Urgency for Greater Cybersecurity
Cyber risk is one of the great concerns sitting at the top of any government, as hacker attacks and other security breaches have the potential to jeopardize the global economy and other aspects of everyday life. Wide reporting indicates the proliferation of cyber attacks worldwide at a substantial and increasing…
REFLECTIONS OF A RETIRED LAW LIBRARIAN: From Mimeograph to Generative AI
Being a retired law librarian of a certain age, I am now often asked to reflect upon my 50 years serving in various capacities as a law librarian. I have noticed that most questions asked can be grouped into discrete categories. For example, people want to know what lessons I…
AALL: Network Neutrality Update – January 2011
David Badertscher Network Neutrality (Net neutrality) is a principle that expresses the concept that all Internet traffic must be treated equally regardless of possible economic and other incentives to do otherwise. The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) strongly supports Net neutrality and is a member of Save the Internet…
Internet Society Statement on Egypt’s Internet Shutdown
Source: The Internet Society Newsletter Volume 10 Number 1 January 2011. On 28 January, Lynn St.Amour President and CEO, and the Internet Society Board of Trustees issued a statement on the Egypt’s Internet shutdown: “We are following the current events in Egypt with concern as it appears that all incoming…
The WWW at 20
November 12. 2010 is the twentieth anniversary of a research proposal that is remaking our world. As Ben Zimmer tells it in his November 14 On Language column, WWW: The 20th Anniversary of a Research Proposal That Remande the Language in the New York Times, Tim Berners-Lee, a British software…
Social Media are Affecting the Way We Hear About Death: Police Grapple With Issue
On social media bad news spreads quickly. When off-duty Baltimore Police Detective Brian Stevenson was killed Saturday night after being struck in the head by a piece of concrete, word spread quickly through police circles and spilled onto Facebook, where the officer’s young daughter learned of his death before relatives…
Leading Executives in the Legal Research Industry Join Bloomberg Law
Leading Executives in the Legal Research Industry Join Bloomberg Law Lou Andreozzi and Larry D. Thompson to Lead Expansion of Bloomberg’s Web-Based Legal Platform New York, October 18, 2010 – Bloomberg today announced that Lou Andreozzi has joined the Company as chairman of Bloomberg Law and Larry D. Thompson, PhD,…
From the Offices of Lesley Ellen Harris
A New Bog: Those of you who follow this blog will know that I occasionaly post Lesley Harris’s excellent Newsletter The Copyright & News Media Law Newsletter, (latest issue posted below with permission) where she covers a wide range of topics from copyright and licensing to jobs for librarians. Although…
Ethics and Social Media Use By Court Staff
Real world examples needed.I am posting the following request for real-world examples of issues and problems regarding ethics and social media that have occurred in our courts as a service to all of us who really need access to this information. Please contact Norman Meyer directly if you have any…