Susanne Pierce Dyer, Reference/Devilopment Librarian, Bernard E. Witkin Alemeda County Law Library in Oakland, California has sent the following information and announcement regarding the tenth anniversary of the Bernard E. Witkin Memorial Symposium: “How quickly a decade flies by! As we look back to the first Witkin lecture in May…
BY TAMAR RAUM* March is Women’s History Month, and a wealth of historical, social, political, and cultural knowledge is available on the internet. The following internet page of the NWHP (National Women’s History Project) highlights notable achievements of outstanding women. http://www.nwhp.org/whm/test.php To really appreciate the nature and scope of Women’s…
The March issue of WSLL @ Your Service has been published at http://wsll.state.wi.us/newsletter/0803.html In this issue: * What’s New: New Volunteer @ WSLL; Economic Stimulus Checks – A Heads Up * This Just In… : New & Updated library materials * Click To It! Legal Research @ Your Fingertips: finding…
February Content Release This month’s content release includes the following NEW content: 12 years added to the Congressional Record Bound 11 new titles added to the Law Journal Library 97 new titles added to World Trials 11 states updated in Session Laws 1 new title added to Legal Classics Click…
February 27, 2008. Supreme Court rejects wiretapping suit “The U.S. Supreme Court declined February 18 to consider whether plaintiffs who believed they had been spied on without a court order could challenge the legality of such surveillance without tangible proof-even if the proof is classified as a state secret. The…
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world’d largest developer and publisher of international standards. Many of these standards relate to matters of interest and concern to law libraries and law librarians. Part of their process for standards development is to prepare drafts to various interested groups for comment and…
From: OCLC Updates. February 26, 2008. WorldCat.org users who want to keep tabs on lists of items created by fellow users can now do so without having to return to the site: Public WorldCat lists are available as RSS feeds that can be monitored using any RSS-capable service or software.…
News from the American Library Association: House allows warrantless wiretaps law to expire A dramatic showdown between House Republicans and Democrats February 14 has led to Congress beginning a one-week break without sending any surveillance legislation to the White House. The result is the February 16 expiration of the Protect…
“(U.S. 6th Cir., Feb. 5, 2008) – Defendants’ sentences resulting from their clumsy robbery of rare books from a university and attempts to sell them at auction are vacated and remanded for re-sentencing, where the district court erred by excluding books dropped and abandoned in the library stairwell from the…
We just received the following announcement and thought some of you might be interested even if you are not able to participate. Calling All Library Auteurs: Library Movie Festival! Free Nylink Community Brown Bag Session Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008 Time: 11:30am – 1pm Location: Mid-Manhattan branch of NYPL Have…