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From the June 13 USGPO news release: “With nearly a quarter of a million titles available online and free of charge, and with public retrievals exceeding 32 million every month, GPO Access (www.gpoaccess.gov), a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), has become one of the principal tools for providing public access to official …
Benefitsblog is a tax, benefits and ERISA law commentary and news filter created by B. Janell Grenier, Esq., launched in April 2003.
Via postings today on Law-Lib, the first from Judith C. Russell, the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, this important information on the status of the bookstores across the country, and the second from Marian Storck, Legal Information Specialist, U.S. Attorneys Office: “Essentially, the bookstore closures result from an overall decline in sales due …
The Web, According to Google: “Google has grown so fast that even those who use it religiously have started to worry about the tendency of its huge audience to increasingly regard the site as comprehensive when in reality its compilation of information is anything but…Webmasters are starting to question the opaque rules that Google uses …
Super Searchers on Competitive Intelligence, The Online and Offline Secrets of Top CI Researchers. From the press release: Companies operating in today’s unpredictable roller-coaster economy have increasingly turned to Competitive Intelligence (CI) as an effective means of building and maintaining an edge. This book presents leading CI researchers in their own words, revealing their secrets …
Business Statistics on the Web: Find Them Fast-At Little or No Cost. “Statistics are a critical component of business and marketing plans, press releases, surveys, economic analyses, presentations, proposals, and more–yet good statistics are notoriously hard to find. In this practical guide, statistics guru Paula Berinstein shows readers how to use the Net to find …
New resources available on campaign reform: Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act Cases: media statements, jurisidicational statements and briefs Current FEC regulations as amended by the BCRA rulemakings are available in Title 11 of the Code of Federal Regulations The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-155) Text, PDF
Libraries are growing smaller, but budgets, staffing and duties keep expanding, according to this new article on Law.com, which also links to the Second Annual AmLaw Tech Library Survey.
Who Uses Fact Checkers, Anyway? is an interesting article worth noting in the context of blogging, especially given its inherent emphasis on timeliness in posting content. For some “historical” context, see this 1999 article from Searcher, Fact-Checking 101. (Forbes Magazine’s information center), which provides some much needed perspective on the limitations of virtual libraries, and …
The Nevada Legal Resources Directory is a statewide collection of free legal assistance organizations and other related resources. The directory is the work product of the L.E.A.N. (Legal Electronic Assistance for Nevadans) Project which has been spearheaded by the Washoe County Law Library. Contact is Ana Hinman, Reference Librarian, Washoe County Law Library Reno, NV, …
The Register reviews the pros and cons of Turbo10.com, still in beta, which unfortunately seems to have crashed due to the traffic generated by this new-found recognition? Not an auspicious start, but check-in on the site when it reappears, as one of the major incentives to do so is its focus on searching the invisible …
From GPO Access: The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, May 2003. “The Unified Agenda published twice a year (usually in April and October) in the Federal Register, summarizes the rules and proposed rules that each Federal agency expects to issue during the next six months.” See this link …
