Lyonette Louis-Jacques of the D’Angelo Law Library at the University of Chicago has conducted a quick, informal, but very interesting survey asking law school librarians how many of their faculty members use Kindles. As often happens with such surveys, the results or responses reveal more than was originally intended, thus…
Articles Posted in Library Reference and Research
Book Review: Licensing Digital Content: A Practical Guide for Librarians
Title: Licensing Digital Content: A Practical Guide for Librarians Author: Lesley Ellen Harris Publisher: American Library Association Edition: Second Publication Date: 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8389-0992-8 Pages: 161 Price: $57.00 The author’s stated goal in writing this brief volume is to provide a primer and guide regarding digital licensing issues for librarians…
Columbia Science and Technology Law Review Goes Open Access
The following is an announcement from Luis Villa, the outgoing Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review (STLR). Beginning with Volume X STLR will become a “formal open access journal and comply with the recent Durham Statement on open access” and will become the first Columbia journal to…
Information Regarding Hon. Sonia Sotomayor Has Been Updated
The background information regarding U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor at our earlier posting has been updated to include her completed questionnaire which was delivered to the Committee of the Judiciary of the U.S. Senate on Thursday June 4, 2009. For those who have not seen it, that posting which…
List: Law Library Blogs
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…
Announcement and Survey: AALL Publication on Legal Research for Non-Lawyers
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Legal Information Services to the Public SIS has updated its publication, “How to Research a Legal Problem: A Guide for Non-Lawyers.” The text of the revised version, by LISP members Lee Warthen and Angus Nesbit, can be viewed here: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/lisp/research.htm In the past…
Amazon Has Now Released the Latest Version of It’s Wireless eBook Reader: Kindle DX
Amazon has now released Kindle DX, a larger, more versatile veriion of its wireless Kindle ebook device. The new DX version has a larger display and a screen which rotates from portrait to landscape to view Web pages and spreadsheets, etc. Kindle DX and other wireless ebook reading devices certainly…
Studies in Law Related Information Behavior
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…
Journal: Law & Social Inquiry
A quarterly journal published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc. on behalf of the American Bar Foundation. Law & Social Inquiry is a multidisciplinary quarterly that publishes original research articles and wide-ranging review essays that contribute to the understanding of sociolegal processes. Law & Social Inquiry’s combination of empirical and…
New Books and Releases from the ABA Criminal Justice Section
Below is a message, useful to law librarians and others, from the current Chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section. It includes information about new books and some discussion about publication activities within the Section : Message from the Chair: The Criminal Justice Section is comprised of a number of…