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Development of a SharePoint Site – Lorette S.J. Weldon continues her series with a discussion on how to interpret and document the requirements of an organization or a specific department in order to develop a successful SharePoint site.
Law Libraries Transformed: Not long ago, the law library was “a place”. It housed printed materials and staff and provided work space for research. Lawyers went there to use books and consult librarians to locate and complete assignments. Today, Eleanor Windsor and Ron Friedmann report that the notion of a modern law library is very …
Testing the Accuracy of Database Information Produced in Civil Discovery: Conrad J. Jacoby identifies the trend that increasingly electronically stored information (“ESI”) requested in litigation discovery originates in databases or other structured data repositories. Previously, this data was stored in discrete e-mail messages, spreadsheets, and word processing files that have long made up the bulk …
WSJ: “Teach for America now attracts 12% of all Ivy League seniors. The program’s founder explains why it beats working on Wall Street…A 2008 Urban Institute study found that “On average, high school students taught by TFA corps members performed significantly better on state-required end-of-course exams, especially in math and science, than peers taught by …
The Demographics of Web Search, Weber, I.; Castillo, C. SIGIR, ACM Press, Geneva, Switzerland (2010) “How does the web search behavior of “rich” and “poor” people differ? Do men and women tend to click on different results for the same query? What are some queries almost exclusively issued by African Americans? These are some of …
Millennials will make online sharing in networks a lifelong habit “Tech experts generally believe that todays tech-savvy young people the digital natives who are known for enthusiastically embracing social networking will retain their willingness to share personal information online even as they get older and take on more responsibilities. Experts surveyed say that …
NPR: “Dr. Jakob Nielsen, a usability specialist, has done a small study that indicates that reading a book on an iPad or a Kindle will take longer. According to Nielsen, the iPad measured 6.2 percent slower than a printed book and the Kindle was 10.7 percent slower.”
“The National Archives announces the launch today of its first public wiki called Our Archives on Wikispaces located at: http://www.ourarchives.wikispaces.net. Our Archives provides a collaborative space for members of the public, researchers, and staff to share knowledge about National Archives records, resources and research. The wiki is an opportunity for researchers, historians, archivists, and citizen …
“Checking out digital versions of books that are automatically returned after two weeks is as easy as logging onto the Internet Archives Open Library site, announced digital librarian and Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle. By integrating this new service, more than seventy thousand current books best sellers and popular titles are borrowable by …
Polishing Technologys Golden Triangle: “Each side of the Golden Triangle represents one of three areas of research that together are transforming the technology landscape today: information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. Information technology (IT) encompasses all technologies used to create, exchange, store, mine, analyze, and evaluate data in its multiple forms. Biotechnology uses the basic components …
“Clay Shirky looks at “cognitive surplus” — the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we’re busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats), we’re building a better, more cooperative world.”
Gender Equality Universally Embraced, But Inequalities Acknowledged, released July 1, 2010 “Fifteen years after the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Womens Beijing Platform for Action proclaimed that shared power and responsibility should be established between women and men at home, in the workplace and in the wider national and international communities, people around the …
