The following is being posted as an urgent message at the request of a law librarian colleague : As I am sure you know this year is on track to produce a budget disaster for libraries in New York City. The cuts currently proposed will result in massive layoffs and…
A publication announcemenrt from the New York Professional Responsibility Report (NYPRR) Comparing The New York Rules of Professional Conduct to The New York Code of Professional Responsibility By Roy D. Simon A collection of ten articles- 138 pages- by Professor Simon on the new New York Rules of Professional Conduct,…
From: Fair Courts E-lert, May 7, 2010 Published by the Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law. 1. Show Me Better Courts, a Missouri organization seeking to replace the state’s merit selection of judges with contested judicial elections, claims to have raised $1.5 million “to gather petition…
Top Ten Stories of the week ending May 7, 2010: Judiciary Stevens Explains Death Penalty Stance, Bow Ties May 6, 2010 7:05 am CDT Plus: Lawyers Spot Justin Bieber on Flight, But Didn’t Recognize Justice Stevens Kagan Has Her Supreme Court Interview; Short List Said to Be Shorter Careers As…
Jonathan Stock who along with others has been working tirelessly to save six threatened law libraries in Connecticut from closure due to financial constraints. Here is Jonathan’s latest report, received as an e-mail on May 6, 2010.: The Connecticut General Assembly closed down last night. We now know that the…
NYLINK reports that on May 30, 2010 OCLC plans to discontinue access to the NetLibrary database on WorldCat.org, WorldCat Local and WorldCat Local “quick start” on May 30. This database of NetLibrary metadata was released in July 2009 to facilitate discovery of NetLibrary eBooks and eAudiobooks through WorldCat.org-based services. Discontinuation…
New publication from the American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Section www.abanet.org/crimjust The State of Criminal Justice 2010 Edited By Myrna Raeder Find out recent developments and trends in the criminal justice field. Authors from across the criminal justice field provide essays on topics ranging from white collar crime to international…
By Joni L. Cassidy Cassidy Cataloging Services, Inc, On March 17, 2010, my post about www.theSkyRiver.com and OCLC included the following statement: “OCLC and Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc. may finally reach a compromise. OCLC may grant permission to allow a WorldCat Local institution that has purchased Cassidy MARC record sets…
TITLE: Capital Punishment on Trial SUBTITLE: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America AUTHOR: David M. Oshinsky PUBLICATION DATE: April 14, 2010 PUBLISHER: University Press of Kansas PAGE COUNT: 160 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7006-1711-1 (Paper) 978-0-7006-1710-4 (Cloth) PRICE: $14.95 (Paper) $29.95 (Cloth) Oshinsky , a Pulitzer-prize winning historian…
Much is being written about the application development and information security aspects of cloud computing but there has been comparatively little discussion about how cloud computing relates to ethical issues that may arise from a lawyer’s use of this technology. In their two part article I n t r o…