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Cataloging Westlaw Records: A Question of Access

STEVEN ESSIG Recently, Cassidy Cataloguing Services announced a partnership with Thomson-West that would make available to law school libraries MARC 21 cataloging records for Westlaw items. In the words of Cassidy’s Donna Rosinski-Kauz “The Cassidy-Westlaw MARC21 records collections will be an expansion of the very popular “WLX E-Treatise Collection,” which…

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Blogging and Virtual Reference at the New York Supreme Court Criminal Law Library

BY: David G. Badertscher The New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library of New York County (sometimes referred to as the New York Criminal Law Library) is located in lower Manhattan near the Brooklyn Bridge, City Hall, and State andFederal courthouses. It is one of several Supreme Court libraries located…

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Results of American Association of Law Libraries Election for 2008

Monday, December 3, 2007 AALL Election Results This year we received 1597 ballots (33% of total dues paying members). Darcy Kirk, AALL Secretary, has just notified all the candidates running for office, so I am now pleased to announce the results of the AALL election for 2008. Vice President/President-Elect: (July…

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Public Access Libraries: An American Institution

BY: Theodore Pollack Senior Law Librarian New York County Public Access Law Library The United States Declaration of Independence states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal….” Perhaps no more beautiful words have ever been written. However, self-represented litigants who are attempting to protect…

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Should the Web Be Changed From WWW to GGG (Giant Global Graph) ?

David Badertscher “Why we need to move from thinking about Web pages to thinking about the information on those pages.” http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/45477.html The above quote and link refer to a recent posting by Joab Jackson in which he discusses an idea recently put forward in a posting by the “father of…

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Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World

As part of its mission, OCLC a worldwide library cooperative prepares in depth studies and topical surveys of issues and trends of interest and concern to all types of libraries, including law libraries. One of their latest reports addresses the topic of sharing, privacy and trust in our networked world…

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Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

With the expanding variety of formats required for effective storage and retrieval of information in libraries coupled with the rising level of expectations of patrons, the future of bibliographic control is of utmost concern for all types of libraries. The following material from the Library Journal Academic Newswire for November…

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Justice Stephen G. Crane to Resign in February 2008

The following announcement appeared in the November 2, 2007 issue of the New York Law Journal “Justice Stephen G. Crane of the Appellate Division, Second Department, said yesterday he will resign on Feb. 4 to join Judicial Arbitration & Mediation Services in Manhattan. JAMS, a California-based dispute resolution firm, employs…

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HeinOnLine Announces First Federated Search Connection via 360 Search, Serials Solution

William S. Hein & Co., Inc. Announces the First Authorized Federated Search Connection to HeinOnline Buffalo, NY – November 13, 2007 William S. Hein & Co., Inc. announces the availability of the first direct and authorized federated search connection to HeinOnline via 360 Search, Serials Solution’s federated search engine. Serials…

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Northeast Regional Law Library Conference Proceedings

From Jim Garnet, Law Librarian U.S. Department of Justice National Place Library, November 2, 2007. I’ve seen this posted a couple of other places, but I don’t think it’s been on the LLAM listserv. I think the MP3 (audio) files are available for all of the programs, and the Powerpoints…

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