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Follow up to previous postings on Google Book settlement, BBB News reports – Tech giants unite against Google – “Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google’s attempt to create what could be the world’s largest virtual library. Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo will sign up to the Open Book Alliance being spearheaded by …
As reported in the Concorde Monitor (New Hampshire), Justice Souter’s longtime neighbor said “Souter told him one of the reasons he decided to move was because his Weare house wasn’t structurally sound enough to hold the thousands of books that make up his library.”
Law Practice Technology Information Sources and Tools – Ken Strutin identifies core sources to learn about new technologies that apply to legal research and law practice. In addition, he has identified specific tools that will contribute to managing research, communication and information-based tasks.
“Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world’s outstanding manuscripts. Together with Codex Vaticanus, it is one of the earliest extant Bibles, containing the oldest complete New Testament. This treasured codex is indispensable for understanding the earliest text of the Greek Bible, the transmission of its text, the establishment of the Christian canon, and the history …
News release: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against the Department of Justice [on June 24, 2009], demanding the public release of the surveillance guidelines that govern investigations of Americans by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI’s Domestic Investigative Operational Guidelines went into effect in December of 2008 and detail the Bureau’s …
Best Practices for Government Libraries – 2009 – Change: Managing It, Surviving It, and Thriving On It – “The 2009 edition includes 60 articles and other submissions provided by more than 50 contributors from librarians in government agencies, courts, and the military, as well as from professional association leaders, LexisNexis Consultants, and more.” Compiled by …
Vendor Pitfalls in Negotiating Large Multi-Year Contracts – or How to Lose a Million Dollar Contract: A veteran of several decades of vendor negotiations for law firm online and print contracts, law librarian Elaine Billingslea Dockens’ thoughtful, detailed and illustrative pathfinder is an asset to all engaged parties whose goal is to obtain a contract …
TIME: “In a complex settlement agreement, which took three years to hammer out and spans 135 pages excluding attachments, Google will be allowed to show up to 20% of the books’ text online at no charge to Web surfers. But the part of the settlement that deals with so-called orphan books which refers to …
The End of Institutional Repositories & the Beginning of Social Academic Research Service: An Enhanced Role For Libraries – Stuart Basefsky advocates broadening the concept of institutional repositories (IRs) to serve as full-fledged electronic libraries and documents how they can then serve the greater purpose of collecting, disseminating, analyzing and exchanging useful digital information for …
There are a number of session handouts available in advance of the sessions.
The Decline and Fall of the Dominant Paradigm: Trustworthiness of Case Reports in the Digital Age, by William R. Mills, New York Law School Law Review, volume 53, 2008/2009. “It is axiomatic that our American common law, based in the principle of precedent and the rule of stare decisis, relies on accurate case reports published …
Follow-up to previous postings on Google Book Search, Deal or No Deal: What if the Google Settlement Fails? by Andrew Richard Albanese, Publishers Weekly. “Notably, despite a litany of concerns and obvious unease, the library community did not oppose the deal. That’s partly out of an underlying belief that the benefit of a massive database …
