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From the University of Michigan Law Library, Information on Harriet Miers, Nominee for Justice of the Supreme Court. This page was created with the collaborative effort of Kincaid C. Brown, Barbara H. Garavaglia, Aimee S. Mangan and Jennifer Selby. SMU Underwood Law Library: Published Writings of Harriet E. Miers, Nominee for Justice of the U. …
State Legislative History Research Guides on the Web, Compiled by Jennifer Bryan, Documents Librarian, Indiana University School of Law Library Bloomington [The E-LawLibrary Weblog]
From the ALA Office of Government Relations today: “Six important business organizations (including the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, and The Financial Services Roundtable) wrote to Senator Specter expressing “support for reforms to Sections 215 and 505 of the Patriot Act which allow the federal government to require voluminous and …
Descriptive metadata for copyright Status, by Karen Coyl: “The need to express the intellectual property rights of digital materials has focused on access and usage permissions which must be granted by the rights holder. A key set of permissions not acknowledged by these rights expressions is inherent in the legal copyright status of the item. …
An interview with Kurt Vonnegut in the October 6 USA Today, includes the following quote: “Music…cheers him, as do people who behave decently. Librarians too – “not famous for their physical strength” – who resist having books removed from shelves and refuse to give names to people who have checked out certain books in the …
“Kath Straub, Ph.D., CUA, Chief Scientist, looks at recent research on how people detect, and often miss, Web site fraud..” Fine-tuning your Internet deception detectors is a brief, straight forward, practical guide to “how Internet deception works.”
A Glossary of Terms Used in the Federal Budget Process, GAO-05-734SP, September 1, 2005, released October 5, 2005 (182 pages, PDF).
French open terror database “La Base de Données sur les actes terroristes (BDT) a été ouverte au public le 22 septembre 2005 avec, au départ, un accès via les sites Internet du Ministère de l’Intérieur et de la Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique.” [Link]
Press release: “Sixty-eight percent of American adults, or about 137 million people, use the internet, up from 63% one year ago. Thirty-two percent of American adults, or about 65 million people, do not go online, and it is not always by choice. Certain groups continue to lag in their internet adoption.” Digital Divisions: There are …
“Radio Response is a group of volunteer IT professionals founded by Mac Dearman and dedicated to establishing an emergency communications infrastructure and currently working in the areas affected by hurricane Katrina. Beneficiaries of our work include shelters, medical centers,and relief organizations. All of our work is non-profit.”
“President Bush Broadens PCAST’s Duties: Executive Order elevates role of external information technology advice in the White House; PCAST to serve as President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (September 2005),” Press release. Related links: President’s IT Cmte. Reports on Critical Role of Computational Science for American Competitiveness President’s IT Advisory Committee Issues Recommendations on Cyber Security
CIA Director Porter J. Goss statement on CIA Office of the Inspector General Report, “CIA Accountability with Respect to the 9/11 Attacks”. “I will not convene an accountability board to judge the performances of any individual CIA officers.” Related links: Washington Post (reg. req’d): CIA Director Won’t Punish Officers For 9/11 Failures New York Times …
