Day archives: July 15th, 2015

Comparing Legal Methods in Five Law Schools Through Survey Evidence

Siems, Mathias M. and Mac Sithigh, Daithi, Why Do We Do What We Do? Comparing Legal Methods in Five Law Schools Through Survey Evidence (July 13, 2015). Final version to be published in Rob van Gestel, Hans Micklitz and Edward L. Rubin (eds.), Rethinking Legal Scholarship: A Transatlantic Interchange, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Slides from OCLC Research Update at ALA Annual 2015 now online

“This OCLC Research Update took place at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco on Monday, 29 June 2015. The agenda included: Introduction – Senior Program Officer Roy Tennant served as master of ceremonies and provided a quick overview of current OCLC Research highlights. Wikipedia and Libraries – Senior Program Officer Merrilee Proffitt gave …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

New EFF Tool Makes Emailing Congress Just a Few Clicks Away

“The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created a new tool that makes emailing your congressional lawmakers a quick and easy process. Democracy.io simplifies and streamlines the current fractured system for contacting lawmakers, allowing you to message your two senators and your representative from a single website. “Democracy thrives when the voices of Internet users are …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, E-Mail

DuckDuckGo Founder Highlights Privacy and No Tracking Policy

Andy Meek talked to Gabriel Weinberg, founder of the privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo: “Not only is it now a built-in search engine option in browsers like Safari and Firefox, but the company says the trove of news stories about data breaches and revelations of government snooping have helped keep the search engine’s numbers climbing up …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Privacy, Search Engines

New Rosenberg Grand Jury Testimony Released

“Washington, D.C., July 15, 2015 – “The newly released grand jury testimony by Ethel Rosenberg’s brother David Greenglass suggests he committed perjury on the witness stand in the Rosenberg spy trial, according to experts who analyzed the documents released today and posted by the National Security Archive. The grand jury testimony from August 1950 shows …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

2015 Long-Term Budget Outlook

CBO -“The long-term outlook for the federal budget has worsened dramatically over the past several years, in the wake of the 2007–2009 recession and slow recovery. Between 2008 and 2012, financial turmoil and a severe drop in economic activity, combined with various policies implemented in response to those conditions, sharply reduced federal revenues and increased …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

Federal Reserve Beige Book – July 15 2015

Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District Prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and based on information collected before July 3, 2015. “This document summarizes comments received from businesses and other contacts outside the Federal Reserve and is not a commentary on the views of Federal Reserve officials. All …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents