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Using P2P applications, Download for Democracy is providing free access to a growing database archive, currently comprising “600 government memos, communications, and reports, all of which were obtained from mainstream media sources, respected legal or academic groups, or the federal government itself.” For background and commentary on this new website, created and maintained by a …
From the New York Times today: Fewer Noses Stuck in Books in America, Survey Finds Literary Reading in Dramatic Decline, According to National Endowment for the Arts Survey Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America (60 pages, PDF)
Statements of Administration Policy (July 7, 2004) H.R. 4754, Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, FY 2005 [Link, 3 pages, PDF] “If legislation were presented to the President that includes any provision that forces the courts to allow notice to criminal suspects before a search warrant is executed, …
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) now provides users with keyword, Boolean and field search options. “This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 1142 journals in the directory. Currently 302 journals are searchable on article level. As of …
Libraries Choose to Filter or Not to Filter As CIPA Deadline Arrives Related news and references: Internet Filters Are: [Good] [Bad] [Both], and Supreme Court Rules Against Child Online Protection Act.
Government Printing Office: Actions to Strengthen and Sustain GPO’s Transformation, GAO-04-830, June 30, 2004, Highlights: “Federal government printing and dissemination are changing due to the underlying changes to the technological environment…Federal agencies are publishing more documents directly to the Web and are doing more of their printing and dissemination of information without using GPO services. …
REVIEW: Sony E-Book a Revolution for Eyes: “The Librie is the first major consumer product to feature a long-in-the-works display technology that is designed to replace printed words on paper – so-called electronic ink.” See related post here.
In the July 2004 issue of the ABA Journal (pages 34-35, text not currently available free online), see the article, The New Librarian, focusing on the topic of hourly rates for billable time, which according to a recent informal survey on the Private Law Libraries Special Interest Section Listserv, range from $80 to $200 for …
New on LLRX.com for June 21, 2004: A Selective Guide to Online International Arbitration Resources UK Constitutional Reform Notes from the Tech Trenches: Spicy Handouts for Tastier Training FOIA Facts: Ronald Reagan’s FOIA Legacy Wisdom from the Grammar Goddess: Breaking the Spell After Hours: Travel Tip, Book It! and Time Travel Tickets, Part II (Old-Fashioned …
As an update to previous postings concerning access to CRS reports online, The Thurgood Marshall Law Library, University of Maryland, provides a searchable archive currently comprising 400 CRS reports on 50 topics, from 1993 to present (the most current entry, Sensitive Security Information and Transportation Security: Issues and Congressional Options, 6/9/2004). The site also references …
As referenced in an article on the lifespan of writeable CDs and DVDs from today’s WSJ, here is the link to NIST Special Publication 500-252, October 2003: Information Technology: Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs A Guide for Librarians and Archivists, by Fred R. Byers (50 pages, PDF) “The document provides guidance on …
The June 2004 issue of The American Lawyer includes an AmLaw Tech Library Survey: Books, Bytes and Budgets. Subtitled, “Caught between paper and PCs, librarians struggle to speed services and corral costs.”
