AALL Maintained List of Law Library Document Suppliers
The AALL Document Delivery Caucus maintains a list of law library document delivery suppliers.
Category «Libraries»
AALL State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources
Press release: “How trustworthy are state-level primary legal resources on the Web? The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is pleased to announce the publication of the State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources that answers this very important and timely question. The comprehensive report examines the results of a state survey that investigated …
Nation's Largest Single-Subject Declassification Effort Concludes April 2007
Eight Million Pages of New Material for Researchers on Nazi and Japanese War Crimes, Washington, D.C.: “The Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group (IWG), the group tasked with locating, declassifying, and making publicly available U.S. records of Nazi and Japanese war crimes, will conclude its work on March 31, 2007. …
Stanford Launches Database of Copyright Renewal Records
“The Copyright Renewal Database makes searchable the copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1993 for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963. Note that the database includes ONLY US Class A (book) renewals. The period from 1923-1963 is of special interest for US copyrights, as works published …
Study Examines Wikipedias Use of Open Access Research and Scholarship
From First Monday this month, What open access research can do for Wikipedia, by John Willinsky: “This study examines the degree to which Wikipedia entries cite or reference research and scholarship, and whether that research and scholarship is generally available to readers. Working on the assumption that where Wikipedia provides links to research and scholarship …
Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, March 28, 2007 Statement of Robert S. Mueller, III Director Federal Bureau of Investigation: “Last week, the Committee heard testimony from Glenn Fine, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice regarding a recent report issued by his office on the FBI’s use of …
New on LLRX.com for March 2007
A Legal Analysis of the Impacts of Administrative Court Decisions on the Validity of Private Law Contracts In Turkish Law, by Assoc. Prof. Vedat Buz and Cagdas Evrim Ergün Criminal Justice Resources: Criminal Justice Library Internships, by Ken Strutin CongressLine by GalleryWatch.com: The Capitol of Newspapers, by Paul Jenks The Goverment Domain: GovTrack and OpenCongress …
ACLU v Gonzales COPA Decision
ACLU v Gonzales [originally ACLU v. Reno, then ACLU v. Ashcroft], Final Adjudication on the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, March 22, 2007 (84 pages, PDF) Alternate link to the PDF decision, ACLU v. Gonzales, 22 March 2007, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Final Order, …
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers (BETA)
“The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress today announced that Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers is debuting online with more than 226,000 pages of public domain newspapers from California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, Virginia, and the District of Columbia published between 1900 and 1910. The text of the newspapers is …
New Library of Congress Digital Preservation Website
New site on the Library’s leadership in preserving digital assets: “The Library of Congress has taken a collaborative approach to the collection and preservation of digital information in order to remain relevant and useful to Congress and its constituents in the digital age. No single institution can do the job of collecting, preserving and making …
New on LLRX.com for March 2007
Criminal Justice Resources: Criminal Justice Library Internships, by Ken Strutin CongressLine by GalleryWatch.com: The Capitol of Newspapers, by Paul Jenks The Goverment Domain: GovTrack and OpenCongress Go Beyond THOMAS, by Peggy Garvin E-Discovery Update: Separating E-Discovery Myths from Realities, by Conrad J. Jacoby Deal or No Deal Licensing and Acquiring Digital Resources – Deal …
Trustworthy Repositories Audit and Certification Checklist is Published
Press release: “The Center for Research Libraries and RLG Programs (a unit of the OCLC Programs and Research division) announce the publication of Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist.”
