Day archives: March 28th, 2019

Legal Research Demystified: A Step-by-Step Approach

Voigt, Eric, Legal Research Demystified: A Step-by-Step Approach (Table of Contents and Chapter 5 on Research Plans) (March 18, 2019). Legal Research Demystified: A Step-by-Step Approach (Carolina Academic Press, 2019), ISBN 9781531007836. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3354594 -“Legal Research Demystified guides first-year law students through eight steps to research common law issues and ten steps to …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Teaching Freedom of Expression Without Frontiers

“Developed by Columbia Global Freedom of Expression with partners from around the world, Freedom of Expression Without Frontiers offers academic and training resources on the laws, institutions and actors that have founded a global system of freedom of expression and information. The website is organized around nine Teaching and Training Modules. It includes a general introduction …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Education, Free Speech, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The 2019 Tournament of Books

Presented by Field Notes: “Every March at The Morning News we present The Tournament of Books, a month-long battle royale among the year’s best novels. But it’s not really a contest. We’re not even sure it’s a “tournament.” What the ToB has been and will be, as long as we’re putting it on, is a …

Subjects: Libraries

Reading to Your Toddler? Print Books Are Better Than Digital Ones

The New York Times – “The tablet itself made it harder for parents and children to engage in the rich back-and-forth turn-taking that was happening in print books,” a researcher said. “In a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, researchers at the University of Michigan asked 37 parents to read similar stories to their …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Libraries

The Sometimes Catastrophic, but Mostly Just Embarrassing Consequences of Screen Sharing at Work

The New York Times – There are settings to help you avoid this. Here’s how to use them. [Note – this article includes instructions for both Mac and Windows] “Whether it’s happened to you or in front of you, many of us are familiar with the screen-share disaster: the accidental exposure of something private…while projecting …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy