We are delighted to see the updated List of Law Library Blogs. It was originally compled by Bonnie Shucha, University of Wisconsin Law School, and has been updated by Michael Robak, University of Illinios College of Law. When viewing this list it is important to note that it contains only…
Rob Richards, a law librarian and legal information consultant in Philadelphia writes: “A list of empirical studies of law-related information behavior is now available at http://home.comcast.net/~richards1000/InformationBehavior.html . If you know of additional studies not listed, I’d be grateful to learn of them. Persons interested in this topic may be interested…
According to C.G. Lynch’s provocative artice in the CIO Insider Newsletter,Twitter’s growing popularity is exposing a considerable “fraility” of writing among those tweet. He observes that Twitter’s 140 character message format demands concise, engaging writing “and that’s a skill that a lot of people don’t have. To read more of…
April 29, 2009. An e-publication of the American Library Association (ALA) HIGHLIGHTS: OCLC challenges ILS vendors In what clearly represents a challenge to the integrated library system industry, OCLC announced April 23 that it has created what it calls “the first web-scale cooperative library management service,” inviting member libraries to…
Volume 2009, Issue 4 April 30, 2009 Published by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Government Relations Office Through its Washington E-Bulletin, the AALL Government Relations Office keeps the AALL membership abreast of governmnt policy news important to law libraries and law law librarians. True to form, the April…
BY Philip Y. Blue, Senior Law Librarian New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library In a move that could reshape the library automation landscape, OCLC has expanded WorldCat Locals existing cataloging and discovery tools with new circulation, delivery, and acquisitions features. This new project, which OCLC calls “the first Web-scale,…
At least one publisher appears to be experimenting with issuing flash drives to accompany at least some of the serial volumes they publish. How, or should, libraries process flash drives received in this matter and incorporate them into their collections. Below is a question posed via e-mail by someone actually…
April 8, 2009. ALA Direct is the eNewsletter of the American Library Association. HIGHLIGHTS: Included in this issue is a link which our Senior Law Librarian and ALA member Philip Blue recommends for job seekers: http://joblist.ala.org/index.cfm ALA Connect debuts “ALA is now providing its members a common virtual space to…
Currently we have an opening at the O’Quinn Law Library: the position of Special Projects Librarian. For detailed information please visit: http://www.law.uh.edu/libraries/job%20ads/SpProjLibrn-04-09.htm. Applicants please send a cover letter, a resume, and the names of three references to: Mon Yin Lung, Associate Director, O’Quinn Law Library, University of Houston, 12 Law…
The TS-SIS Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the recipient of the Renee D. Chapman Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Technical Services Law Librarianship for 2009 is Curt E. Conklin. Curt is the Associate Director for Technical Services at the Brigham Young University Howard W. Hunter Law Library…