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On April 4, 2008 Patricia Barbone sent an e-mail to the Law Library Association of New York (LLAGNY) listserv in which she listed the following two excellent sources where information about judges can be found.:

Judicial Reports is an on-demand service that covers NY Judges. The first profile you request is $600, then second is $500, and the third is $400. All subsequent profiles are $400. Reports generally consist of

1. A sample profile of judge

Call for Participation

Deadline Extended to April 22, 2008

A Reference Renaissance: Current and Future Trends August 4-5, 2008 Denver, CO Conference website: http://www.bcr.org/referencerenaissance

QUESTION:

“I am in the process of trying to convert to a less paper driven office. We have occasion to verify information on Web pages and typically copied it and placed it in the hard file. I cannot seem to save it to a file on the computer and view it after the fact. Any suggestions? I have tried copy and paste and send it to.”

RESPONSE:

American Libraries Direct is e-newsletter of the American Library Association. Here is the Table of Contests for the April 4, 2008 issue:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

U.S. & World News ALA News Booklist Online D.C. Update Division News Round Table News Awards Seen Online Tech Talk Actions & Answers Poll Calendar

Every month I look forward to receiving the ABA Criminal Justice Section E-News. True to form, the April 2008 issue just received is filled with information to those involved with criminal justice issues. Here are some exampled highlighted in the April 2008 issue:

Weekly Criminal Justice News Roundup.

Legislative Update

The TS-SIS Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the recipient of the Renee D. Chapman Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Technical Services Law Librarianship for 2008 is Joseph Thomas.

Joseph is Head of Technical Services at the Kresge Library, University of Notre Dame Law School. His many contributions to the field of technical services law librarianship include:

8 program presentations delivered since 1991 at the AALL annual conference as well as at other venues

S.1638

SUMMARY

S. 1638 would increase the salaries and change certain retirement benefits for some judges and justices of the United States. The bill also would allow those judges and justices to receive annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) without further Congressional approval and would increase the compensation paid to Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustees.

“A newly disclosed Justice Department legal memorandum, written in March 2003 and authorizing the military’s use of extremely harsh interrogation techniques, offers what could be a revealing clue in an unsolved mystery: What responsibility did top Pentagon and Bush administration officials have for abuses committed by American troops at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and in Afghanistan; Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; and elsewhere?”

See above referenced legal memorandum, RE Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combatants Held Outside the United States,” below in two parts: Please be patient. It may take awhile to download.

Part 1

Contact Information