Q+ A with Alexander Heffner, Founder of Scoop08
Alexander Heffner, Founder of Scoop08, will be joining us at the Berkman Center to present at our weekly Tuesday Luncheon series at 12:30 PM ET. The event will be webcast live, and there are still seats available if you'd like to join us in person (email rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu if you plan to attend). read more
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Berkman Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: ashar
Self Playing Digital Audio Books - No CD or MP3 Player Needed
Milwaukee Public Library has announced that they've recently acquired a collection of "Playaway" audio books.
Playaways are the digital content of an entire book pre-loaded into a pocket-size player. There is no need to load CD's or cassette tapes; you just press "play" and begin listening. Very simple to operate and light to carry, the library is excited to be able to offer this type of media to its patrons.
Many Madison area public libraries also carry Playaway titles.
To browse a list of available titles, do an author search for "Playaway" in the South Central Library System (Madison-area) catalog or the Milwauk...
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - March 10, 2008 Tags: Libraries & Librarians
Google Adds Search within a Search
Google has added a new feature in which a secondary search box that appears within some of the search results themselves. See, for example, the search results for a "NASA" search.
Note the "Search nasa.gov" search box below the link. According to Google,
This feature will now occur when we detect a high probability that a user wants more refined search results within a specific site. Like the rest of our snippets, the sites that display the site search box are chosen algorithmically based on metrics that measure how useful the search box is to users.
I've not seen this yet for any other search I've done - have you?...
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - March 10, 2008 Tags: Data & Databases
Bo Ryan & Crew READ Poster Available
I mentioned earlier that Bo Ryan & crew are featured on this year's UW Madison Libraries READ poster. The photo for the poster was shot at College Library and includes, from left to right, players Joe Krabbenhoft, Jon Leuer, Marcus Landry, Brian Butch and Trevon Hughes. The project was paid for with private support.
Copies are now available - If you would like one, contact bucky@library.wisc.edu for copies.
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - March 10, 2008 Tags: Libraries & Librarians
UNESCO Cultural Heritage Laws Database
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, recently launched the Cultural Heritage Laws Database.
?The aim of the database is to protect the cultural heritage as a whole by combating the looting, theft, illegal export and import and illicit trafficking of cultural property as well as the degradation and all other forms of deterioration of the heritage.?
The database provides stakeholders such as governments, customs officials, art dealers, organizations, lawyers, or buyers access to:
national laws currently in force related to the protection of the cultural heritage in general
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - March 10, 2008
Submission Regarding Personal Information Protection Act
The Office of the Information & Privacy Commission for B.C. has submitted a report to the Special Committee to Review the Personal Information Protection Act, S.B.C 2003, c. 63 (PDF, 52 pages). The submission found that the Personal Information Protection Act was a balanced and effective law that did not require major changes.
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - March 10, 2008
Berkman@10 Event Lineup
Fresh off the heels of the FCC
Hearing and Clay
Shirky's special visit to the Berkman Center at the end of
February, March is sure to be just as exciting and packed with special
events, announcements, and more as part of the Center's year long
celebration of its tenth anniversary. Please join us and invite you
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Berkman Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: rtabasky Tags: Berkman@10
New Books at the Law Library - March 10th, 2008
K888 .V48 2007 (LC) Stella Vettori, The Employment Contract and the Changed World of Work (Aldershot: Ashgate Pub., 2007). KD1554 .W56 2007 (LC) Chris Willett, Fairness in Consumer Contracts: The Case of Unfair Terms (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007). KD7869 .S56 2007...
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Law Library Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Elim Tags: New Books
"A Litigation Weblog with an Attitude"
Posted by Evan Schaeffer: Stewart Weltman, formerly a partner at Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll P.L.L.C. and now the owner...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Blogs/Blogging
"Cutting-Edge Trial Tech Aids Patent Dispute"
In the news: Ropes & Gray's representation of Gentex Corp. won the law firm the LTN Award for most innovative...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Tech Use By Lawyers
"Law Firm Video on Websites: Immediately Irrelevant "
Posted by Kevin OKeefe: Immediate irrelevance. That's an accurate description of 90% plus of the video's law firms will run...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Your Firm ' s Website
"An Insider's View of Why Law Firm Marketing Still Doesn't Work"
Posted by Carolyn Elefant: I've posted before about the short shelf life of law firm marketers. Now, via Larry Bodine's...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Marketing
"Visibility, Design and Content - Three Steps to Successful Online Marketing: A FindLaw White Paper"
From the e-newsletter: (FindLaw's LegalMarketing.com) - In the expanding online market for legal services, the most successful law firms focus...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Marketing
"Me-too Evidence in Age Discrimination"
From the site: Ellen Mendelsohn, a 51-year old manager for Sprint, was fired in company-wide layoffs and sued citing age...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Podcasts/Podcasting
"Do Something! Get Out of Your Comfort Zone"
Posted by Allison Shields: It has been said that the definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior over and...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Lawyer ' s Personal Life
LL.M. Guide
Looking for the latest LLM programs? The best single website is the LLM Guide
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novalawcity - March 10, 2008 Author: Robert Hudson
'Too many lawyers write too much too often' -Judge John G. Koeltl
The ABA offers practitioner tips on legal writing by Judge Koeltl. He covers the remedies to common practices such as Circumventing the Page Limits & Verbal Excess. ABA
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novalawcity - March 10, 2008 Author: Robert Hudson
Pulpits and politics in library meeting rooms
New lawsuit against a library in Ohio that allegedly didn't allow a "Politics and the Pulpit" meeting/service in its meeting room. http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/ohio/ohsdce/2:2008cv00223/121378/2/
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LibraryLaw Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Mary Tags: Meeting Rooms, Displays, Public Forums
Opening: Reference Librarian, University of Illinois College of Law Library
The University of Illinois College of Law invites applications for the position of Reference Librarian, a full-time academic, tenure-track faculty appointment with the rank of Assistant Professor of Library Administration. This position reports to the Head of Public Services of...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Employment Opportunties
Senate Judiciary Committee Clears Bill Authorizing Cameras in Federal Courtrooms
From the National Law Journal: "The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation authorizing the chief judges of federal district and appellate courts to permit cameras in courtrooms. The so-called Sunshine in the Courtroom Act would allow photographing, electronic recording, broadcasting or...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Legislation in the News
Just Released, L. Patrick Gray's In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate
In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate by L. Patrick Gray & Ed Gray List Price: $26.00 Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Times Books (March 4, 2008) ISBN-10: 0805082565 ISBN-13: 978-0805082562 Book Description: The last untold story of...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: New Publications
Professional Reading: Why States Need an International Law for Information Operations
Duncan Hollis' (Temple) Why States Need an International Law for Information Operations, 11 Lewis & Clark Law Review 1023 (2007) assesses the ways in which international law applies to information operations. This interesting article can be downloaded from SSRN using...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Professional Readings
New StatPack, Including First Justice Agreement Stats
Another excellent resource from SCOTUSblog: "A new StatPack is available for download here. It has three new inclusions from the last edition: Justice Agreement, Decisions by Final Vote, and a new chart we’re calling “Frequency in the Majority” (thanks go...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Legal Research
Sanity and the Second Amendment
Interesting op-ed by Professor Laurence Tribe from WSJ.com. For a complete set of court filings (including backgroud & analysis), check out SCOTUSwiki's DC v. Heller page. [RJ]
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Law Librarian Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Litigation in the News
Parker's Institutional Repositories and the Principle of Open Access: Changing the Way We Think About Legal Scholarship
Kudos to Carol Parker, Law Library Director and Assistant Professor of Law at New Mexico, and a contributing editor for Law Librarian Blog. Carol's article, Institutional Repositories and the Principle of Open Access: Changing the Way We Think About Legal...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Scholarship
Vatican Updates Its List of Mortal Sins; Fails to Specify Their Punishments
The new mortal sins include taking or dealing in drugs, polluting the environment, and engaging in "manipulative" genetic science, The Times of London reports. Also new to the list are paedophilia, abortion, and social injustices that cause poverty or "the...
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Law Librarian Blog - March 10, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: News
