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“The quarterly CIPD/KPMG Labour Market Outlook [February 2010] aims to offer an early indication of future changes to the labour market around recruitment, redundancy and pay intentions. The survey is based on a survey of more than 700 HR professionals, who are mainly drawn from the CIPDs membership of more than 135,000 HR professionals. The …
News release: “Almost half of IT companies plan to relocate jobs abroad, making the technology industry the UKs likeliest private sector employer to build-out operations offshore. In a survey of more than 700 employers, India emerged as the preferred overseas destination for the 10 per cent of respondents looking to export jobs from the UK. …
Study: Vacationers Happier, but Most not Happier After a Holiday, Applied Research in Quality of Life, 10 February 2010 “The aim of this study was to obtain a greater insight into the association between vacations and happiness. We examined whether vacationers differ in happiness, compared to those not going on holiday, and if a holiday …
Chronicle of Higher Education: “This is a strong vehicle for academic freedom,” says Mr. Willinsky, whose Public Knowledge Project offers free journal-publishing software to academics. In a world where subscriptions to some medical journals can cost more than $10,000 a year, and many colleges in developing countries cannot afford more than a handful of scholarly …
LLRX.com – Ethics of Legal Outsourcing White Paper: The practical reality for US and UK attorneys engaging in or contemplating Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) is that the outsourcing of both core legal and support services across the legal profession is nothing new. What is different today with the emergence of the LPO industry is that …
LLRX.com – Effective Project Management: the Art of Creating Scope Statements – Carol A. Watson’s discussion of how well-defined scope statements are the key to successful project management continues with this article focused on how all written documentation should be clearly and concisely written, avoiding ambiguities at all costs.
LLRX.com: Preserving Born-Digital Legal Materials – Where to Start?: Sarah Rhodes discusses the monumental challenge of preserving our digital heritage. She argues that law libraries specifically have a critically important role to play in this undertaking as access to legal and law-related information is a core underpinning of our democratic society. Our current digital preservation …
U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2009 Endowment Market – Value and Percentage Change in Endowment Market Value from FY 2008 to FY 2009 Related postings on financial system
Moving Targets: Web Preservation and Reference Management – Richard Davis discusses the role of Web preservation in reference management in an article based on a presentation given at the Innovations in Reference Management workshop January 2010. “Web Preservation is one field of endeavour which attempts to counter the Webs transient tendency, and a variety of …
News release: “The Pew Environment Group released a report that for the first time quantifies the global cost of the Arctics declining ability to cool the climate, indicating that the rapid melting of the region could carry a minimum price tag of $2.4 trillion U.S. by 2050. The report…estimates that this year alone the climate …
Kay Ann Cassell and Kathleen Weibel – Telling the story of women’s work is never done: Writing Women Back into History is the theme for National Womens History Month, March 2010, the annual celebration of women in the United States. For years womens contributions were routinely underestimated or ignored even in the history of our …
Royal Pingdom: “Over the past few months there has been plenty of speculation around the Web that Twitters growth has stalled, but if we look at activity on Twitter in terms of the number of tweets, this is far from the truth. According to our research, Twitter is as of December processing more than one …
