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Follow up to a series of postings on the EPA library closures, this new posting indicates states that the EPA “…has no plans to shut down more of its libraries and has ceased destroying duplicative research materials until it answers questions from Congress, a spokesperson said Friday.”
Eliminating Series Authority Records and Series Title Control: Improving Efficiency or Creating Waste? Or, 12 Reasons Why the Library of Congress Should Reconsider Its SARs Decision, prepared for AFSCME 2910 by Gary M. Johnson, January 11, 2007.
The Justice Served 2006 Top 10 Court Website Award winners. Among the winners is the Connecticut Judicial Branch Law Libraries.
Follow-up to previous postings on EPA library closings, via FAS, this recent CRS report, Restructuring EPA’s Libraries: Background and Issues for Congress, updated January 3, 2007. “EPA determined that the utility of some of its libraries had declined as the agency has made more information available through the Internet, and as heightened security at its …
Press release: “The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announces the availability of the ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 200405. This publication presents compilations and rankings of data that describe collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 77 law libraries at ARL member institutions throughout North America. In 200405, the reporting law libraries held a median of …
Press release: “The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) announces the availability of the ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2004-05. This publication presents compilations and rankings of data that describe collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 67 medical libraries at ARL member institutions throughout North America. In 2004-05, the reporting health sciences libraries held a …
LA Times: College libraries: the condensed version – With millions of items to store, and research often done online, some schools pack little-used books into annexes.
Press Release – FBI Director’s Comments to Senate Reveal Continued Hostility Toward Libraries, Privacy Responses of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Based Upon the May 2, 2006 Hearing Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Regarding FBI Oversight (PDF) ALA Criticizes DoJ’s Stance on Libraries and Privacy
Press release: “The Internet Archive Receives Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Digitize and Provide Open Online Access to Historical Collections from Five Major Libraries…The Sloan Foundation is proud to support the digitization of these high-value collections from five of the nation’s leading cultural institutions and to ensure that these materials will always be …
The December 2006 issue of ABA’s Law Practice Magazine features a profile of Sabrina I. Pacifici, founder, editor, publisher of LLRX.com and author of beSpacific. After a decade of publishing the free webzine on law and technology resources, and with more than four years and 11,000 postings on beSpacific.com, I am delighted to continue my …
The following articles are available in the December 2006 issue of LLRX.com: Bloggers Beware: Debunking Nine Copyright Myths of the Online World – Updated, by Kathy Biehl Criminal Justice Resources – Criminal Justice Blogs, by Ken Strutin A Compilation of State Lawyer Licensing Databases, by Trevor Rosen and Andrew Zimmerman Deep Web Research Research 2007, …
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