________________________________________________ Illegal Sex Discrimination or Permissible Customer Preference? Refusal to Hire and Employ Male Gynecologists: A Legal Research Guide “This new publication from Hein is the latest title in the Legal Research Guide Series. Professor Amy Stein provides researchers with a starting point to help determine when the occupational qualification…
News from ALA and the world of libraries: New York librarian becomes embedded journalist in Iraq “Twice in the past two years, librarian Shelby Monroe persuaded the 101st Airborne Division to let her be an embedded war correspondent and blogger. In those articles and accompanying photographs, she tries to capture…
The Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science at River Forest, Illinois (near Chicago) has been conducting a series of innovative workshops on this topic, including the following: March 17, 2008: 4-6pm “Get a Voice: Why Writing, Blogging and Speaking Out Are Crucial to Advancing Your LIS Career”…
From: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group Welcome to the second issue of the Routledge Library Newsletter! The aim of the Newsletter is to provide you with the latest news about all our products including reference books, eBooks, online products, and major works. We want this Newsletter to be an interesting…
NEW YORK (AP) – Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced Wednesday that he is resigning, completing a spectacular fall from power for a politician whose once-promising career imploded amid allegations that he paid thousands of dollars for high-end prostitutes. “I look at my time as governor with a sense of what might…
William S. Hein & Co., Inc. & the American Association of Law Libraries are Looking for Proposal Ideas for the AALL Publications Series Do you have an idea for a new publication? The AALL Publications Committee, together with William S. Hein & Co., Inc. welcomes proposals relating to law librarianship…
March 7, 2008 Our Top Ten Stories of the Week Evidence Test to Spot Liars Takes Center Stage in Personal Injury Cases Mar 5, 2008, 06:20 am CST Expert witnesses are citing a test designed to spot those who are faking their pain in hundreds of court cases, prompting debate…
Susanne Pierce Dyer, Reference/Devilopment Librarian, Bernard E. Witkin Alemeda County Law Library in Oakland, California has sent the following information and announcement regarding the tenth anniversary of the Bernard E. Witkin Memorial Symposium: “How quickly a decade flies by! As we look back to the first Witkin lecture in May…
The March issue of WSLL @ Your Service has been published at http://wsll.state.wi.us/newsletter/0803.html In this issue: * What’s New: New Volunteer @ WSLL; Economic Stimulus Checks – A Heads Up * This Just In… : New & Updated library materials * Click To It! Legal Research @ Your Fingertips: finding…
The following was contributed by Bill Graham* The Internet Society played a significant role in the second meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio de Janeiro in December, 2007. ISOC hosted an Open Forum on ISOC’s work and worked with partners to organize or participate in nine other…