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…
Search limited to forthcoming hardcover books published in english: Criminal Justice in China: A History Author: Mühlhahn, Klaus Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN or UPC: 0-674-03323-X (Active Record) Format: Trade Cloth Date: Apr 2009 Price: $29.95 Market: United States Availability: Readily Available LC Class #: KNN1572.M84 2009 Dewey#: 364.951 ISBN…
BY LYONETTE LOUIS-JACQUES Foreign Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago D’Angelo Law Library Published by GlobaLex June/July 2007 From the Introduction: “This bibliography lists selected English-language resources on comparative criminal procedure. It focuses on journal articles, book chapters, and treatises covering comparative criminal procedure generally,…
From: Lori Hedstrom, Marketing Manager, Librarian Relations, West a Thomson Reuters Business: Starting with the January 2009 issue (volume 10, number 1), Practice Innovations was converted to an electronic format. In part, this was done in accord with Thomson Reuters’ “going green” initiative; however, we also want to take full…
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…
On March 1, West released significant changes to the Key Number System. Attorney editors have completed the reclassification of over 300,000 headnotes. The improvements include the following: · Two new digest topics: The topic PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS AND CONFIDENTIALITY encompasses privilege issues arising in discovery and at trial and contains expanded…
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…