“(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…
New Maryland Rules Now Free Online http://marylandlaw.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-maryland-rules-now-free-online.html * ————————————————– *Thanks to Trevor Rosen, Librarian at Shapiro Sher Guinot & Rosen in Baltimore, MD for sending this.
From LexisNexis, In the Know: In an exciting move, LexisNexis has been able to work with numerous cities, municipalities, and villages to obtain the right to publish their local codes, statutes or ordinances (depending on the term that the location uses). These sources are currently scheduled for updates twice a…
From Cassidy Cataloguing Inc. “We are pleased to announce that… Cassidy Cataloguing [is offering] MARC21 records for the World Trials Library. The MARC21 records for this collection will be developed and managed wholly by Cassidy Cataloguing, who is offering the records at a one-time subscription price. A subscription will include…
From William S. Hein and Company, Inc.: 1. Dahl’s Law Dictionary – Spanish/English 4th Edition Now in its fourth edition, Dahl’s was the first bilingual dictionary containing encyclopedic definitions. This new edition includes more than 11,000 words and phrases to aid researchers in defining legal terms in both English and…
Electronic Hein Cites Issue 408 ________________________________________________ Screening Justice – The Cinema of Law: Significant Films of Law, Order and Social Justice This recent publication from Hein contains more than 50 essays written by 50 legal scholars, professionals and professors, focusing on significant films about law, order and social justice. The…
The January 25, 2008 issue of the AALL Washington E-bulletin is now available at http://www.aallnet.org/aallwash/eBulletin12508.pdf. Reading issues of this E-bulletin is a great way to keep abreast of issues of interest and concern to law librarians that are being discussed and debated in Washington, DC. Enjoy
New on LLRX.com for January 2008, www.llrx.com From Sabrina I. Pacifaci, Founder, Editor, Publisher LLRX.com **Many thanks to all the authors whose work appears in this month’s issue. **If you are interested in contributing a feature article, a column, a guide or a presentation to LLRX.com, please contact me —…
American Libraries Direct is the e-newsletter of the American Library Association (ALA): PARTIAL LIST OF ARTICLES: LC Working Group issues final report on bibliographic futures A Library of Congress task force has completed its mission to look at the future of cataloging and other forms of bibliographic control and recommend…