BY Basil Tilmon, Account Manager GalleryWatch Inc.
This Week – Thursday afternoon, October 25
The week featured an interesting cyclical pattern – after a turbulent week of an attempted veto over-ride and floor ranting, this week was relatively conciliatory. Veto threats however loom over much of what Congress is doing, however. (Note: when you see the word veto…the link will take you to the appropriate veto statement.)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue: Global Warming, Governance, and the Law
Fiona Haines, Nancy Reichman, and Colin Scott, as editors of Law & Policy, are bringing together a series of papers on the legal and policy issues around global warming. We are interested in papers in all areas of law and policy related to climate change from any relevant academic discipline including:
Best Practices in Information Retrieval and Records Management: Analysis and Recommendations from the 2007 Sedona Conference
By Steven Essig
The Sedona Conference Journal, Volume 8, Fall 2007, includes much relevant commentary on possible best practices and other important concerns on effective information retrieval of legal documents. Issues raised range from effective precision and recall searching, appropriate sorts of indexing strategies, word choice, email retention policies for courts and other legal organizations among other major concerns. Of particular interest to librarians should be the section of the issue entitled “ESI Symposium”, which contains a report from “The Sedona Conference ® Working Group on Best Practices for Document Retention and Production (WG1), Search & Retrieval Sciences Special Project Team” (the August 2007 Public Comment Version).
“…Selfhelpsupport.org is an award winning membership site that serves as a Network for Practitioners of Self-Help Programs as well as an online Clearinghouse of information relating to self-representation.”
“…Members include courts, legal aid programs, bar associations, educational institutions, researchers, and other governmental and non-profit programs working to increase access to justice. Usage of the site and of materials accessed is for non-commercial purposes only.”
You can go directly to Selfhelpsupport at http://www.selfhelpsupport.org/
Since 2001 the American Bar Association has commissioned four surveys of the legal profession, including both members and non-members of the ABA. The most recent survey, The Pulse of the Legal Profession is reported in some detail by Stephanie Francis Ward in the October 2007 issue of the American Bar Association Journal. The following is a brief summary of survey responses as included in her report:
RESPONDENTS TO SURVEY:
Type of Pracitice:
The October issue of Nylink’s monthly bulletin, Check It Out: What’s New at Nylink, is now available.
Check It Out complements the quarterly Nylink Connection and our monthly technical newsletter, Status Line, by focusing on timely information about products and services available to you through Nylink as well as upcoming Nylink events and happenings. Click “download file” below to access complete Newsletter.
This October 2007 Newsletter includes information regarding: Workshops, General News, Resources, Professional Organizations, and News for Educators. To see entire Newsletter click on Download File:
OCTOBER EVENTS:
Oct. 3 Corporate Representation After DOJ’s McNulty Memo, Teleconference and Live Audio Webcast
Oct. 8
The Second Annual OneWebDay Global event of The Internet Society (ISOC) is being held this year in Israel. Here are some details:
The second annual OneWebDay global event will be celebrated in Israel on Monday, October 22, 2007, and during the following week. Internet organizations from around the world and association members of ISOC Chapters have begun the preparations for the celebrations of OneWebDay event which is celebrated September 22, 2007 (Unfortunately
in Israel it is Saturday and Yom Kippur).
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