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From the Introduction:

“On the Record, the report from the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, describes a new technological environment in which libraries have exciting opportunities for making information resources available and useful to new and demanding audiences. The Working Group has spent a year studying how best to exercise bibliographic control within this environment. The opening sentence of the report’s introduction sums up conclusions with which the Library of Congress agrees: ‘The future of bivbliographic control will be collaborative, decentralized, international in scope, and Web-based.”

This Response to the report was prepared under the supervision of Deanna B. Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress.

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The June issue of WSLL @ Your Service has been published at http://wsll.state.wi.us/newsletter/0806.html

In this issue:

*What’s New: Please take a 5-minute survey about our website; Library news and upcoming events *Start Here: A Selected List of Resources on … Estate Planning in Wisconsin *This Just In…: Selected new and updated library materials, and a link to our latest New Titles List *Tech Tip in Brief: Highlighting in presentations and on webpages

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World Trials Library

With the addition of 99 new trials in the May content release, HeinOnline’s World Trials Library now contains 1,300 titles. If your library does not already subscribe to one of the most astounding online trials collection in the world, now is the time. Click here for the complete brochure, or contact a member of our sales team for pricing information.

English Reports

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May 2008 issue:

The May 2008 Pro Se Newsletter, the newsletter of the New York State Unified Court System Newsletter, is being distributed because it contains at least two articles of possible interest. One article “Web-Based Services at the Supreme Court Criminal Term Library New York County” by me describes various web-based services to improve library service including access to online subscriptions to library materials. This article also mentions the backup support provided by the Public Access Library for public patrons.

A second article by my colleague Julie Gick at the Supreme Court Civil Term Library at 60 Centre St. discusses the use of records and briefs.

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Published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group:

The Directory of EU Information Sources

“This is a new seventeenth edition of The Directory of EU Information Sources. It brings together a broad range of information sources, comprising not only the various constituent institutions of the European Union, their personnel, publications, information websites and representations in Europe and the rest of the world, but also diplomatic representation in Brussels, European-level trade and professional associations and NGOs, consultants and lawyers specializing in EU affairs, press agencies, EU grants and loans programmes, and universities offering courses in European integration.”

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Never Enough: One Lawyer’s True Story of How He Gambled His Career Away

By Michael J. Burke

“I heartily recommend this book for every lawyer in America and to anyone whose life is being sadly touched by a loved one undergoing an addiction of any kind.”

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An Introduction*

David Badertscher

How trustworthy are state-level primary legal resources on the Web? The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) published the State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources (Authentication Report) that answers this very important and timely question. The comprehensive report examines and draws conclusions from the results of a state survey that investigated whether government-hosted legal resources on the Web are official and capable of being considered authentic. The survey was conducted by the Access to Legal Information Committee of AALL. For a quick overview, the Authentication Report’s Executive Summary provides an excellent introduction to some of the underlying issues and facts surrounding the pressing and timely issue of the authenticity of state primary digital legal materials.

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As information becomes available to us, we post information about the status of various initiatives including the Working Group for Bibliograph Control and RDA. On May 1 we received the following correspondence from Richard Amelung, the AALL representative to this group:

Dear all–

As your AALL representative on the Working Group on the Future of

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