March 2009 Volume 34 Number 3. The March 2009 TSLL issue is published and now available for your viewing. Check out the current news. See http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/tsll/34-03/34-03.pdf My thanks to Courtney Selby, Robert Bratton, and Karen Douglas who have stepped up and volunteered to write TSLL columns beginning in June. So,…
March-April 2009 Issue: The Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) is the largest of New York State’s nine reference and research systems, multi-type library organizations often known as “3R Cooperatives” METRO serves a region that includes the five boroughs of New York City and Westchester County. METRO has a broad…
March 19, 2009 In this Issue: Intentional Upheaval: ACRL Report Says Libraries Must Turn Crisis into Opportunity Unresolved: ACRL, “Debate” Over MLS Finds No Resolution At ACRL, One Librarian Looks to the Very, Very, Distant Future Sony, Google Strike Public Domain Deal; Oregon State, BCR Team Up to Offer Public…
Q\UESTION:: In a recent e-mail, someone from Canada asked asked how she could obtain an “official copy” of a Congressional Research Service report, “one from Congress,” not one from the website of an organization such as the Federation of American Scientists. The responses which follow are very interesting; they address…
UPCOMING PROGRAMS: Frances FitzGerald: The Religious Right and Why it Grew Wednesday, March 18, 7:00 PM Location: South Court Auditorium Tickets: $15 general admission/$10 Library Donors and Seniors/FREE for students with valid ID. For Tickets, call 212.868.4444 Frances FitzGerald: The New Evangelicals Wednesday, March 25, 7:00 PM Location: South Court…
The Legal Division Quarterly is the Newsletter of the Legal Division of the Special Libraries Association: The 2009 Winter/Spring issue of the Legal Division Quarterly is now online at: http://units.sla.org/division/dleg/Newsletter/LDQ%20Winter%20Spring%20v16n1&2.pdf In this issue: Get Your Intranet Engines Started David Whelan Editor’s Notes Liz Smith From the Board Room Martha Foote…
QUESTION* For courts who have translated their public website into the Spanish and/or Vietnamese languages: Do you have a Spanish and/or Vietnamese version of your court public website? Do you have statistics on number of visitors by language that you can share? Have you conducted a cost/benefit analysis or impact…
The Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), the New York State reference and research library resource system serving New York City and its metropolitan area, has just released its Strategic Plan 2009-2014. This stragetic plan which was developed through a broad consultative and inclusive process (including input from law libraries),…
American Libraries Direct is the e-newsletter of the American Library Association (ALA), March 11, 2009. Highlights: Library technology unconference Have you ever been “speed-geeking”? Struck by “lightning-talks”? Join keynoters Joan Frye Williams and John Blyberg at the first-ever LITACamp, “The Everywhere Library: Creating, Communicating, Integrating,” May 7–8, in Dublin, Ohio.…
The following link leads to the Spring 2009 list of new books that can be found on the new book shelf of the New York Appellate Division Fourth Department Library: http://www.nycourts.gov/library/ad4/datas/newbklst.pdf