By: Raneta Lawson Mack “This NEW work from William S. Hein & Co., Inc. will take readers one step further than other texts on the market. Most other comparative works in the area of criminal justice are primarily dedicated to the issue of reforming criminal procedure. This work, on the…
From the ABA Science and Technology Section: Science for Lawyers By Eric York Drogin, Editor “Science for Lawyers clearly explains and discusses 13 applied scientific disciplines in jargon-free language that is specifically geared toward lawyers. The book explores the definitions (what is science), the practice (what scientists do) and the…
For the Announcement check the press release at http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2008/08-190.html.. Questions have been raised as to how this might impact law cataloging. Here is a response from AAron Wolfe Kuperman at the Law Catagoging Section of the Library of Congress: The impact on the LAW team is limited. We are renamed…
Electronic publlications from William S. Hein & Company: HeinOnline’s U.S. Federal Agency Library The U.S. Federal Agency Library is a complete collection of the official case law of some of the United States’ most important government institutions. This case law, also known as decision law, is the body of reported…
The fall issue of the State Court and County Law Libraries (SCCLL) Newsletter has been published at: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/sccll/pdfs/news/2008fall.pdf There is an inoperable hyperlink on page 12. The link to the article “Law Libraries Keep FOL in $titches” is: http://www.friends-library.org/about/footnotes2008/footnotes-0808.pdf
A list of forthcoming books scheduled for publication in 2008 selected from a subject search of BIP Professional on October 9, 2008: Enforcing the Law: Police and Society Author: Publisher: Wadsworth ISBN or UPC: 0-534-62343-3 (Active Record) Format: Trade Cloth Date: Jun 2008 Price: $88.95 Market: United States Availability: Available…
U.S. Federal agencies join together to define digitization guidelines. For more information see the complete posting entry on the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Washington Blawg
The following is from a letter announcing that Taylor & Franis Group has recently acquired the publishing portfolio of Haworth Press: Taylor & Francis Group recently acquired the publishing portfolio of Haworth Press. I am writing to give you advance notification of our schedule for migrating the ejournals from www.haworthpress.com…
An e-newsletter of the American Library Association Trenton library plans to close all its branches A potential citywide budget deficit of as much as $28 million has led the Trenton (N.J.) Public Library to develop plans to close all four of its neighborhood branches. Library Director Kimberly Bray announced the…
Law Library Association of Maryland Newsletter http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llam/publications/llamnewsletter/Llamnews200809%20(2).pdf No password required. Please be patient if the document takes a little while to open.