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 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…
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),…
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
The Future of Today’s Legal Scholarship: A Symposium in Honor of Bob Oakley July 25, 2009 Georgetown University Law Center Georgetown Law Library About The Future of Today’s Scholarship: A Symposium in Honor of Bob Oakley The time to debate the role of blogs in legal scholarship has passed. As…
The New York Appellate Division Fourth Department Law Library has just announced in the Spring 2009 issue of their Law Library Newsletter rolling the introduction of a new online catalog. It will be rolled out during the month of March. The move to a new system was prompted by the…
The Internet in 2009 is undergoing the most significant set of changes of its entire history, ccording to one of the men who helped create it, Dr. Vint Cerf. At the official opening of the Internet Society’s (ISOC) new offices in Geneva, on 26 February, Dr Cerf explained that technical…
Legal Information Systems & Legal Informatics Resources, http://home.comcast.net/~richards1000/LegalInformationSystemsBibliography.htm , has been updated with new content. This site aggregates resources of interest to those conducting research on legal information systems. Materials listed include the following: • Articles, Preprints, Journals, Blogs, and Indexes • Conferences and Conference Proceedings • Dissertations & Theses…