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“The Presidential Timeline provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets you’ll find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents’ lives. The goal of the project is to make …
Google’s Moon Shot, by JEFFREY TOOBIN – The quest for the universal library. New Yorker, Posted 2007-01-29 “Every weekday, a truck pulls up to the Cecil H. Green Library, on the campus of Stanford University, and collects at least a thousand books, which are taken to an undisclosed location and scanned, page by page, into …
“Founded in 1832, the Law Library of Congress is the de facto national law library. Its mission is to provide research and legal information to the U.S. Congress, U.S. federal courts and executive branch agencies, and to provide reference service to the public. To accomplish this mission, the Law Library has amassed the world’s largest …
“This morning, February 6, 2007, ALA President Leslie Burger testified before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), concerning the recent closure of several libraries in the Environmental and Protection Agency (EPA). Link to Burgers full testimony. “As one recently retired EPA librarian described it,” Burger said in …
Inside Higher Ed – Broadening the Bush Library Debate: “As professors at Southern Methodist University have mobilized against the plans to build President Bushs library there, their focus has not been the library, but a policy institute to be affiliated with it that would have as its mission promoting the Bush philosophy.”
“The Cornell Law Library is pleased to announce its new Legal Research Engine This specialized search engine helps users easily find authoritative online legal research guides on every subject. It searches approximately 20 different web sites that either prolifically publish guides, or index and link to guides.” [Julie M. Jones]
Press release, The British Library and the Public Sector Spending Review: “Readers may have read in the newspapers that the British Library may have to start charging for access to the reading rooms. We are currently working with DCMS to assist them in making the best case for the British Library in the current public …
Via Spencer L. Simons, Director of the Law Library and Assistant Professor of Law University of Houston Law Center: “The Quinn Law Library at the University of Houston Law Center is proud to announce the inauguration of the extraordinary new website, the Anglo-American Legal Tradition (AALT). The AALT is the result of over fifteen years …
Library Workflow Redesign: Six Case Studies, by Marilyn Mitchell, editor, January 2007. 81 pp. Supplemental Information (these documents are not in the published report): Appalachian College Association, supplements (PDF) The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges, supplements (PDF) The Robert W. Woodruff Library of the AUC, supplements (PDF)
Stanford Center for Internet and Society: ” Kahle v. Gonzales – In this case, two archives ask the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to hold that statutes that extended copyright terms unconditionally the Copyright Renewal Act and the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) are unconstitutional under the Free Speech Clause …
Table of Contents for LLRX.com – January 15, 2007 issue: Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide, by Sabrina I. Pacifici The Impact of Social Networking Tools and Guidelines to Use Them, by LaJean Humphries The Blog – Another Tool in Your Arsenal, by Janet Peros Faulkner’s Practical Web Strategies for Attorneys: How the Web …
Press release: “As the Nation pauses to remember the achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) teams up with the United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) and the Thurgood Marshall Law Library, University of Maryland School of Law, to provide the American public a website of authentic Civil …
