I&D Short Film: An Introduction to Digital Activism
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Berkman Blog - May 14, 2008 Author: syoung
Publius: more on "Tacit Governance"
As promised, we are pleased to announce the continuation of our Publius conversation on Rules and Governance with the following new pieces:read more
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Berkman Blog - May 14, 2008 Author: syoung Tags: Berkman@10
Google to Blur Faces in Street Views Maps
In response to privacy concerns, Google will be blurring out any human face appearing in Google Maps street views.
Street views are available in Google Maps for both Milwaukee and Madison. Simply do a Google search for an address in either city and click on the "Street Views" link in the resulting map. You'll see a panoramic view from the street in which you can pan, rotate and zoom, as well as, move forward or backward down the street.
Thanks to Bev Butula for passing on the Search Engine Journal article about the blurring addition.
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - May 14, 2008 Tags: Tools
CMLP blog: Update on Oregon Statutes Copyright Spat
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Berkman Blog - May 14, 2008 Author: syoung
Two New Task Force Reports From The Law Society Of BC
The Law Society of BC has released two new Task Force Reports:
Report of The Family Law Task Force (PDF, 25 pages). The Task Force proposed that a best practices guideline for professionalism in family law should be created.
Report of the Unbundling of Legal Services Task Force (PDF, 51 pages). The Report defined ?unbundling? as ?limited scope? legal or litigation services. The Task Force recommendations were organized into five categories:
General Professional Conduct
Confidential Drafting Assistance
Communications
Conflicts of Interest
Education and Transition
Please note that ...
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - May 14, 2008
Berkman@10: final lead up event tonight
The Berkman@10 conference starts tomorrow morning!
First, tonight at 6:00pm, our final lead up event: Civic Engagement and the Youth Vote in the 2008 Elections, a Forum co-hosted by the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics; the Forum is free and open to the public. Please join us this evening.read more
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Berkman Blog - May 14, 2008 Author: ashar Tags: Berkman@10
Housing: Proportionate Dispute Resolution ? Report From The Law Commission (UK)
The Law Commission (UK) has recently published its final report, Housing: Proportionate Dispute Resolution (PDF, 115 pages), which reviews how housing disputes are resolved and proposes a new approach. For more information, please see the press release (PDF, 1 page) and the Law Commission?s Background web page.
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - May 14, 2008
[TODAY] Civic Engagement and the Youth Vote in the 2008 Elections
Wednesday, May 146:00 PMHarvard University Institute of PoliticsA reception will follow at the Malkin Penthouse, 5th floor of Littauer, 79
JFK Street.
The Berkman Center will co-host a Forum event with the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics on May 14 at 6:00PM. The Forum will focus on Youth, Politics, and Civic Engagement in the 2008 election year. Speakers/panelists will include:read more
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Berkman Blog - May 14, 2008 Author: ashar Tags: Berkman@10
Picking names for characters in law school exam questions
Law exam questions commonly use the names of pop culture or literary characters. Do these influence the test-taker? The 'Concurring Opinions'
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novalawcity - May 14, 2008 Author: Robert Hudson
Older Acts and Resolves Site Down
Apparently the Acts and Resolves from 1960-1996 hosted by the State Library have been extremely popular, because we are getting a lot of calls about the broken link to them on our site. According to the State Library's blog from April 23, "Our dSpace server, which runs the Acts and Resolves site, is currently down. The library staff is working to fix the problem and hope to have it up again in the next couple of days."Our sympathies to the library staff and to those who want to access this valuable resource. In the meantime, there's a lot to see at the State Library's site and at their blog, including Selections from t...
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Massachusetts Law Updates - May 14, 2008 Author: Meg
Podcasting in Plain English
Another great production from CommonCraft; [RJ]
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Law Librarian Blog - May 14, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Information Technology
GAO's VAT Study Warns of Compliance Risks
GAO has released Value-Added Taxes: Lessons Learned from Other Countries on Compliance Risks, Administrative Costs, Compliance Burden, and Transition (pdf). From the summary: The experiences of our five study countries show that all VAT designs have compliance risks that generate...
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Law Librarian Blog - May 14, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Gov Docs
Professional Reading: Garfield Video on 50 Years of Citation Indexing and Analysis
Eugene Garfield reflects on the 50th anniversary of his citation indexing and searching work in this 11 minute interview. Topics include: how he got the original idea for citation indexing and searching what he was trying to change about the...
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Law Librarian Blog - May 14, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Professional Readings
Electronic Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for First Responders, Second Edition
New report from the National Institute of Justice: "This guide is intended to assist State and local law enforce¬ ment and other first responders who may be responsible for preserving an electronic crime scene and for recognizing, col¬ lecting, and...
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Law Librarian Blog - May 14, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Gov Docs
Israel at 60, a Brief Documentary History
The State of Israel was proclaimed on May 14 1948, making today its 60th anniversary. Depending on your choice of timelines, it was the successful completion of the Zionist objective expressed in the Basel Program adopted on August 30, 1897...
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Law Librarian Blog - May 14, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: International Law
HLS's Terry Martin Appointed Interim Director at Tarlton
Terry Martin who was planning to spend a year traveling after his retirement as Henry N. Ess III Librarian and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School became effective in June will indeed be traveling soon. He will be moving...
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Law Librarian Blog - May 14, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Law School News & Views
Britain's National Archives Release UFO Files
While not directly related to law librarianship, is does speak to the power of FOIA requests and what national archives can make easily available to citizens if enough pressure is applied. Not Friday Fun, but perhaps Wednesday Whimsy. The official...
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Law Librarian Blog - May 14, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Digital Collections
