Library Technology Reports 43:6 2007 By Brad Eden Excerpts from ALA TechSource publication announcment: “As library technologists and librarians are well aware, since the advent of the Internet, the relationship between the user and his/her library has changed”. “In a world of quick-and-easy search engines and of online social networks-in…
Wsll @ Your Service, an E-publication of the Wisconsin State Law Library is now available. It contains an interesting variety of news under heading such as: What’s New, This Just in, Tech Tip in Brief, Learn @ the Law Library, and Odds & Endings. Those who are concerned about the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…