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Selected PowerPoint presentations of sessions from the Business & Finance Division, Information Technology Division, Military Librarians Division, and Science-Technology Division, from the SLA 2005 Conference, Toronto, Ontario CANADA, June 5-8, 2005 are available free at via this Link.
Don’t Count Them Out – The digital age hasn’t supplanted print. It’s complemented it, by Heather Smith, The American Lawyer, 07-01-2005
From laggard to leader? How the legal sector is finally embracing KM
Press release from the British Library: According to Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library, “…by the year 2020, 40% of UK research monographs will be available in electronic format only, while a further 50% will be produced in both print and digital. A mere 10% of new titles will be available in print …
Market Intelligence The Power of Three, by Donna Cavallini Review of Annotated Refugee Convention: Fifty Years of North American Jurisprudence, by Elisa Mason Using EISIL to Research Private International Law, by Louise Tsang Revolutionizing Client Relations with CaseMap’s New ReportBooks, by Dennis Kennedy Garbage In, Garbage Out: Working Around Document Profiling to Improve Work …
NewsForge has a detailed and very interesting posting on how a group of Italian attorneys have formed a consortium to facilitate the distribution of, and training programs about how to efficiently use open source applications for a range of document management applications as well as e-filing of court documents.
As announced this afternoon by Judith C. Russell, Managing Director, Information Dissemination (Superintendent of Documents), links to documents (all in PDF, unless otherwise indicated), are as follows: Plenary Session on Strategic Vision Bruce James, Public Printer GPO’s Future Digital Content System – Status (PowerPoint) Michael L. Wash, Chief Technical Officer, Office of Innovation and New …
OCLC Data Mining Projects: “…Internet giants such as Amazon and Google provide valuable lessons on the importance of squeezing the full value from available data. Whether in the form of book recommendations, search result rankings, targeted advertising, or collection views (e.g., Google Scholar), the “Amazoogle” companies make a concerted effort to release as much value …
Recent suggested reading on enterprise blogs, and corporate blogs for public consumption: Establishing a Weblog On Your Organization’s Intranet (PDF): Sabrina I. Pacifici and Dennis Hamilton’s presentation from the SLA Annual Conference in Toronto is a ying and yang study of blogging enterprisewide behind the corporate firewall, with examples of blogs, and numerous references to …
From Intranet Journal, Debunking Five Common Intranet Myths, by Paul Chin. The author addresses key issues including purpose, audience, content and design, that are differential factors between intrants and external websites.
“Google Desktop Search for Enterprise helps you easily manage the ever-growing mountain of information located on your computers and includes key standards-based administrator features that provide enhanced security, centralized configuration and easy company-wide deployment. Perhaps best of allit’s free.” Related references from Internetnews.com and InfoWorld. See also this article, Which Is the Best Desktop Search …
Yesterday I posted a link to the New York Times announcement of a new fee-based service to access a selected range of current and archival content, effective September 2005. Bloggers, journalists, newspaper execs and financial analysts offer their responses: Business People Like ‘NYT’ Plan to Charge on Web; Bloggers Don’t.
