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Governor Paterson of New York Announces Support of Traffic Migration Plan
Fact Sheet: New York City Congestion Mitigation Plan Regarding New York Governor David Patterson’s Congestion Pricing Proposal
SLA Legal Division Quarterly
The Legal Division Quarterly is published four time a year as a Newsletter of the Legal Division of the Special Libraries Association. Included in the WinterSpring 2007-08 issue is a very interesting article “Help – The Lifeguard is Drowning!: Thoughts and Reflections on How Librarians Can Stay Afloat in the Information Age” by T. Z. Maleef, (the article begins with a great quote from Linton Weeks of the Washington Post). In addition to this article the issue also includes the following which collectively highlight the broad range of activities of this organization:
Editor’s Letter Liz Smith
From the Board Room Nola Vanhoy
Most Common Database Design Mistakes
Brian Prince of e-Week has compiled a list and slide show of what he considers some of the more common mistakes and a few general tips for avoiding them. Over the years as we were either disigning or helping to design a number of library related research and applications databases, we could certainly have used such a compilation and are glad to share this one with you.
To see Brian Prince’s presentation, click here.
National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws to Form Study Committee on Online Authentication of Legal Materials
From the AALL E-Newsletter, March 2008:
“We have just learned of an exciting new outcome of AALL’s National Summit on Authentic Legal Information in the Digital Age convened by Immediate Past President Sally Holterhoff in April 2007. Delegate Michele Timmons, Minnesota revisor of statutes and a National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) commissioner, submitted a proposal to the Uniform Law Commission in June 2007 to create a study committee to explore the complex issues regarding digital authentication. The Law Revision Commission recently approved the new Study Committee on Online Authentication of Legal Materials to investigate the issues and discuss the feasibility of a uniform law or model act. The chair and members of the new study committee will be appointed in August, and AALL has been invited to name an observer…”
2008 State of the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Industry
Excerpts from AIIM President, John Mancini’s Keynote Address — 4 March 2008 — AIIM International Exposition and Conference
There are four intersecting tensions in the marketplace that have been at work over the past 2 years and are aligning right now to change all of this and to truly create the mainstream market that we have all thought was on the horizon.
#1 – Control Over half of those surveyed have either marginal confidence or no confidence in the integrity of their electronic information. That awareness alone is doing a lot to change the “pain”/”make the pain go away” equation.
“A Wise old Man and a Wise old Woman Reach the Same Conclusion”
“As Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsberg observed: ‘In working as a lawyer, law teacher, and now judge, I have discerned no distinctive male or female styles of thinking or writing. And I agree with Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Jeanne Coyne, who said, when asked whether women judges decide cases differently because they are women:
“A wise old man and a wise old woman reach the same conclusion”‘.
–Handbook of Justice Research in Law, by Joseph Sanders, V. Lee Hamilton, Springer, 1981, p.311- From Amazon Book Preview Feature.
Q&A Head of Technical Services in a Law Library, What’s In Your Job Description
QUESTION:
I am interested in finding out the types of assignments that other Heads of Tech Services (or equivalent titles) are responsible for, besides just running the tech services dept. I’m wondering if there is a future for those of us in this position. Is this position part of the hierarchy which may become unnecessary? What ways are you dealing with the transition of tech services depts.? I would appreciate it if you could share your thoughts and possibly your position descriptions with me. I’ve spent a lot of time pondering the future.
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New York Governor Eliot Spitzer Resigns
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 have been,” Spitzer said, with his expressionless wife Silda standing at his side. “There is much more to be done, and I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people’s work.”
Spitzer says his resignation is effective Monday. He will be replaced by Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who will become New York’s first black governor.
Tammy Raum’s Internet Research Tips – NY State Administrative Code’s Print and Online Editions Contain Important Variations for Evidence!
Tammy Raum is:
Senior Research Librarian, New York City Law Dept. Library and may be contacted at: tammyraumprof@gmail.com
Research Information for State Administrative Code: NYCRR and Litigation Protocol