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March 11, 2009.
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Articles Posted in Information Technology
Linkedin Recommendations: Five Ways to Make the Most of Them
BY:Lynch, C.G. CIO , February 19, 2009.
Excerpt:
“As potential employers or recruiters peruse your work experience on LinkedIn, recommendations from past and present colleagues can be one of the most helpful features to help communicate your value. Here’s five tips for doing the most good for yourself with LinkedIn recommendations.”
The Future of Today’s Legal Scholarship: A Symposium in Honor of Bob Oakley
The Future of Today’s Legal Scholarship:
A Symposium in Honor of Bob Oakley July 25, 2009 Georgetown University Law Center Georgetown Law Library About The Future of Today’s Scholarship: A Symposium in Honor of Bob Oakley
The time to debate the role of blogs in legal scholarship has passed. As we approach the end of the first decade of the 21st century, one of our oldest and most conservative disciplines has clearly embraced the era of electronic publishing. Blogging has indeed transformed legal scholarship. Now it’s time to move the dialogue forward.
Internet Poised For Significant Changes in 2009 Says Dr. Vint Cerf
The Internet in 2009 is undergoing the most significant set of changes of its entire history, ccording to one of the men who helped create it, Dr. Vint Cerf. At the official opening of the Internet Society’s (ISOC) new offices in Geneva, on 26 February, Dr Cerf explained that
technical developments in the Internet’s addressing system and the introduction of internationalised domain names are significant milestones.
Such statements carry weight, coming from the man who, in 1972, was one of the inventors of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), two critical technologies that remain at the heart of the Internet today. In addition to his technical
Ribert Richards Updates Legal Information Systems & Legal Informatics Resources
Legal Information Systems & Legal Informatics Resources, http://home.comcast.net/~richards1000/LegalInformationSystemsBibliography.htm , has been updated with new content. This site aggregates resources of interest to those conducting research on legal information systems. Materials listed include the following:
• Articles, Preprints, Journals, Blogs, and Indexes • Conferences and Conference Proceedings • Dissertations & Theses • Departments, Research Centers, Research Projects, and Organizations • Copyright, Licensing, and Open Access • Metadata, Knowledge Representation, and Systems Design • Preservation • Digital Libraries & Institutional Repositories • CALR & Publishers • Knowledge Management • Court Technology • Law Practice Technology
Comments and suggestions are welcome. Richard can be contacted at richards1000@comcast.net .
New, Powerful, State-Of-The-Art Learning Technology Coming to the American Association of Law Libraries
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is proud to announce it is adopting a new, powerful, state-of-the-art learning technology, which will provide a new learning gateway to all AALL members.
The new Ed2Go @AALLNET site will provide members with:
Online access to the AALL Annual Meeting program recordings, as well as archived Webinars, audio recordings, and video recordings
CLLB Information Security Newsletter. February 2009 Volume 2 Number 2.
February 2009 Volume 2 Number 2.
CLLB Information Security Newsletter
Monthly Cyber Security Tips NEWSLETTER
Q&A: Electronic Signatures*
QUESTION:
Does any one use electronic signatures for documents? We conduct video arraignments with detention facilities around our county and this would be most helpful and much more efficient. Any information you can provide will be appreciated.
RESPONSE:
Chain of Custody: Authenticating Digital Evidence
The transition of evidence from paper to digital imposes new challenges to ensuring a proper “chain of custody'” in the authentication of digital evidence.
The legal group of Merrill Corporation has recently compiled a report which addresses this and related issues:
Report: AUTHENTICATING DIGITAL EVIDENCE: IDENTIFY AND AVOID THE WEAK LINKS IN YOUR CHAIN OF CUSTODY.
New Online Journal: Legal Information and Technology eJournal
Georgia K. Briscoe* of the University of Colorado School of Law Library has sent the following announcement which we are please to post here for the benefit of all law librarians and perhaps some others as well. Here is her announcement:
In case you haven’t heard, there is a new online SSRN journal which academic technical services librarians will find useful. LEGAL INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY eJOURNAL is edited by Randy Diamond and Lee Peoples. I am pleased to be a member of the editorial board representing technical services issues. The archive already includes over 150 papers and is growing daily. This ejournal provides another avenue for TS librarians to publish.
Subscribers to SSRN will soon start receiving email issues announcing works in progress and recent publications. SSRN will issue a formal announcement soon, but the editors are pleased to provide a pre-launch viewing. Detailed information from Randy and Lee follows. I hope you will check out this new opportunity for professional growth and development.