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…
The winter issue of SCCLL News has been published at: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/sccll/pdfs/news/2009winter.pdf
Many thanks to Kathy Carlson*, Wyoming State Library, for sending the following about the recent Montana court order on universal citation: “I need to watch for the publication of Wyoming Rule changes in the Pacific advance sheets, today I noticed a rule change in Montana regarding the universal citation was…
March 2009 Issue The Law Library Association of Maryland (LLAM) is a chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL): The March 2009 issue of LLAM News is available for viewing at: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llam/publications/llamnewsletter/Llamnews200903.pdf No password required. Please be patient if the document takes a little while to open. Sara…