According to an NBC report on MSNBC, use of library has gone “way up” during the present economic downturn; circulation is “skyrocketing”. All of this at a time when the budgets of many of these libraries are being cut..
When you go to the above link, be patient, You will first need to listen to a brief commercial before getting to the report about libraries.
“GPO’s Authentication initiative focuses on the primary objective of assuring users that the information made available by GPO is official and authentic and that trust relationships exist between all participants in electronic transactions. In furthering GPO’s mission to provide permanent public access to authentic U.S. Government publications, GPO is working to afford users further assurance that files are unchanged since GPO authenticated them.
The Beta release of an Authenticated Congressional Bills application provides digitally signed and certified Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files for a sample set of Congressional Bills from the 110th Congress. GPO has signed and certified the House and Senate bills PDF files within this application as part of GPO’s initiative to reassure users that the online documents are official and authentic.
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From: The New York City Bar Library December 15, 2008.
The New York City Bar has finalized an agreement with Google and LLMC-Digital to digitize the remaining print volumes of Records & Briefs in the City Bar’s collection. This project will preserve court cases from the New York Court of Appeals (1823-1929) and all four departments of the Appellate Division (1896-1940). The project will also include scanning very scarce cases from the Superior and Appellate Term courts in the mid-late 1800’s. The trial transcripts and briefs will be available free of charge from Google and in an enhanced format in the LLMC-Digital database available through the City Bar’s web site (www.nycbar.org ).
The City Bar expects to transfer 1,000 volumes per week to Mountain View, California starting this week. Other New York area libraries may also become involved in this project in order to create a comprehensive online collection of New York Records and Briefs.
QUESTION:
What are libraries with existing Thomson West Library Maintenance Agreements (LMAs) planning to do when those Agreements come up for renewal? Responses, arranged by type of library are quite varied. All names have been removed to protect privacy but we are especially grateful to the person who both submitted the question originally and compiled the responses below:
RESPONSES:
THE FEDERAL INFORMATION MANUAL: How the Government Collects, Manages, and Discloses Information under FOIA and Other Statutes
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“Disputes about access to federal information arise in numerous contexts, from corporate transactions and administrative rulemaking to Congressional subpoenas, civil litigation, and national security. The Federal Information Manual provides a comprehensive guide through the powerful Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) as well as the varied and often obscure statutes, cases, regulations, judicial decisions, executive orders, and policies that govern federal information.”
Update from the Lexis Alert Service, Search run morning of December 15, 2008.
1. People v. Mears, 4384, 4854/03, SUPREME COURT OF NEW YORK, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT, 2008 NY Slip Op 8021; 55 A.D.3d 439; 866 N.Y.S.2d 75; 2008 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7858, October 23, 2008, Decided, October 23, 2008, Entered, THE LEXIS PAGINATION OF THIS DOCUMENT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE PENDING RELEASE OF THE FINAL PUBLISHED VERSION., THIS OPINION IS UNCORRECTED AND SUBJECT TO REVISION BEFORE PUBLICATION IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS.
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From: Quinlan Law Enforcement Enews Alert, December 10, 2008.
Q. A confidential source told the police that Smith was carrying crack cocaine. Trooper Miller, who operated a special canine unit and was advised about Smith’s suspected drug activity, stopped Smith’s vehicle because it failed to signal at a turn. When Trooper Miller approached the vehicle and spoke to the occupants, he noticed that Smith’s zipper was unzipped and that he kept tugging and pulling at his crotch area. Trooper Miller received Smith’s permission to search the vehicle and proceeded to walk his canine around the exterior of the vehicle before searching the interior. The dog did not alert. Trooper Miller then walked the dog around Smith. Although the dog did not alert, his “demeanor” changed when he stuck his snout in Smith’s crotch area. The dog was not trained to alert-to bite and scratch at the area where the drugs were hidden-at a human being, so this behavior indicated Smith was in possession of drugs. Smith would not consent to a search of his person, specifically stating that he would not drop his pants for the search. Trooper Miller contacted Detective Fugate, who sought to secure a state search warrant. While Detective Fugate pursued the warrant, Trooper Miller transported Smith and his passenger to the police post. He placed Smith in handcuffs prior to delivering him to the post. A search warrant was granted approximately an hour and a half later. During the search, approximately 34.1 grams of crack cocaine was discovered in a sock hidden in Smith’s underwear. Did the length of time between the arrest and the search make the search unlawful?
A. No. Searches of persons incident to a lawful arrest required no additional justification beyond the establishment of probable cause for arrest. Furthermore, a lawful search of the person incident to an arrest did not need to take place immediately after or at the site of the arrest. Once a lawful arrest was made, the suspect and any effects in his or her possession at the place of detention that were subject to search at the time and place of his or her arrest could lawfully be searched and seized without a warrant, even though a substantial period of time had elapsed between the arrest and the taking of the property for use as evidence.
