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Introduction to Law Librarianship

Introduction to Law Librarianship 2021 – University of Georgia School of Law Digital Commons @ Georgia Law. Georg- Zanada Joyner, University of North Carolina School of Law; Cassandra Laskowski, University of Arixona; Heather Simmons, University of Georgia School of Law Library; Thomas J. Striepe, University of Georgia School of Law. Download complete text 388 pages …

Subjects: Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Who are the TOxic Ten?

Center for Countering Digital Hate: How 10 fringe publishers fuel 69% of digital climate change denial (YouTube). “The Center for Countering Digital Hate is an international not-for-profit NGO that seeks to disrupt the architecture of online hate and misinformation. The Center has offices in London and Washington DC.” “(Mashable)…The Center for Countering Digital Hate, however, found that …

Subjects: Climate Change, Energy, Environmental Law, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

How Climate Change Is Changing The Coastline Of The Chesapeake Bay

BuzzFeedNews – “If the projections are right, then we’re already committed to a heartbreaking amount of loss, like a truly devastating amount of loss…How do you see the future? That is the vexing question that Michael O. Snyder, a scientist turned photographer, seeks to answer in his recent project, The Coming Coast. Snyder spent the …

Subjects: Climate Change, Environmental Law

Poison in the Air

ProPublica: “The EPA allows polluters to turn neighborhoods into “sacrifice zones” where residents breathe carcinogens. ProPublica reveals where these places are in a first-of-its-kind map and data analysis. rom the urban sprawl of Houston to the riverways of Virginia, air pollution from industrial plants is elevating the cancer risk of an estimated quarter of a …

Subjects: Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research

The UN Could Finally Create New Rules for Space

Wired: “On Monday [November 1, 2021], a group of diplomats from the United Kingdom proposed that the United Nations set up a group to develop new norms of international behavior in space, with the aim of preventing the kinds of misunderstandings that could lead to war. As spacefaring nations advance their military satellite capabilities, including …

Subjects: Environmental Law, Government Documents, Legal Research, Transportation

LLRX Articles and Columns for October 2021

Articles and Columns for October 2021 Employing My Law Librarian Skills on an Uncertain Road – As we all navigate through the era of Covid, it is critical to learn from the myriad other medical challenges that many Americans, as well as our professional colleagues, are facing separate from the pandemic. Taryn L. Rucinski, Supervisory …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Courts, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, E-Records, Government Documents, Health Care, ID Theft, Legal Research, Libraries, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media, Transportation

Public.org asks FTC to investigate business practices of Lexis and Westlaw

Via Mary Whisner: “Public.Resource.Org filed a submission to the FTC on Friday asking the FTC to investigate business practices of Lexis and West (i.e., Thomson Reuters and Westlaw).  The submission and supporting declarations are very interesting—both because we use the products all the time and because the assertions of copyright and other business practices are …

Subjects: Copyright, Courts, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

EEOC Religious Accommodation Request Form

Eric B. Meyer / The Employer Handbook – “Earlier this week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission provided additional information on religious objections to workplace vaccine requirements to its growing technical assistance manual. Thank you. But, yesterday, one of the EEOC Commissioners emailed me the actual form that the EEOC uses to process religious accommodation …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine