“Wikis are useful business tools. With planning and some staff time, you can make your own online collection of useful articles, tailored to your organization’s needs, to communicate about business processes, manage collective know-how and more” Since many libraries, including law libraries, have expressed an interest in incorporating wikis into…
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world’d largest developer and publisher of international standards. Many of these standards relate to matters of interest and concern to law libraries and law librarians. Part of their process for standards development is to prepare drafts to various interested groups for comment and…
Publications from William S. Hein & Co. Inc. February 26, 2008 Secret Treaties of History Second Edition This new edition from Hein contains nearly 1,000 “secret” treaties spanning more than 1,500 years and 150 countries. Professor Edward Grosek organizes this book into a chronological listing of 973 documents, including an…
From: OCLC Updates. February 26, 2008. WorldCat.org users who want to keep tabs on lists of items created by fellow users can now do so without having to return to the site: Public WorldCat lists are available as RSS feeds that can be monitored using any RSS-capable service or software.…
New Maryland Rules Now Free Online http://marylandlaw.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-maryland-rules-now-free-online.html * ————————————————– *Thanks to Trevor Rosen, Librarian at Shapiro Sher Guinot & Rosen in Baltimore, MD for sending this.
From Cassidy Cataloguing Inc. “We are pleased to announce that… Cassidy Cataloguing [is offering] MARC21 records for the World Trials Library. The MARC21 records for this collection will be developed and managed wholly by Cassidy Cataloguing, who is offering the records at a one-time subscription price. A subscription will include…
New on LLRX.com for January 2008, www.llrx.com From Sabrina I. Pacifaci, Founder, Editor, Publisher LLRX.com **Many thanks to all the authors whose work appears in this month’s issue. **If you are interested in contributing a feature article, a column, a guide or a presentation to LLRX.com, please contact me —…
The following is an excerpt of a Report of the OCLC Council Meeting by Phyllis Post, Head of Technical Services at Capital University (Columbus, Ohio). Phyllis attended as an observer/representative of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).. Speaking personnally, I am very happy to see AALL involved at this…
The information below is from the Press Release announcing the Report, followed by a link to the complete Report: Washington, D.C. – A new report from the Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) on congressional Web sites says the overall quality “continues to be disappointing,” with more than 40% of congressional Web…
This posting includes the Executive Summary followed by a link to the full text of the Final Report: “The Working Group hopes that this Report is viewed as a ‘call to action’ that informs and broadens participation in discussion and debate, conveys a sense of urgency, stimulates collaboration, and catalyzes…