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Remote Online Usability Testing: Why, How, and When to Use It. From the article: “…in-person usability testing isnt always feasible. Projects take longer than expected, budgets get tightened, and target users can be hard to come by. So whats a usability crusader to do when in-person usability testing is impossible? One option is to conduct …
Status Report on ALAs Redesigned Web Site.
Revolution or Evolution for Law Libraries? – “More seasoned practitioners are loath to give up traditional libraries; firms would do well to listen to them.”
An editorial from the Christian Science Monitor, July 8, 2003: Privacy at the Library – “The Patriot Act, designed to help combat terrorism in the US, has many citizens worried about censorship and a loss of privacy. Vigilance certainly is warranted when it comes to ensuring Americans’ precious freedoms. And that includes ongoing, thoughtful consideration …
ACLU Report, 23 pages in pdf: Independence Day 2003: Main Street America Fights the Federal Government’s Insatiable Appetite for New Powers in the Post 9/11 Era.
From the New York Times: “Officials of the American Library Association will call a meeting with the makers of Internet filtering software next month to voice concern over a federal law that requires libraries and schools to use Internet filters or risk losing federal money.” See also: American Library Assoc. Wants More Info On Net …
A Guide to Russian Legal Research Tech Trenches: Searching about Search Engines Co-Founder Tim Stanley Leaves FindLaw The Collapse of Enron: A Bibliography of Online Legal, Government and Legislative Resources Tech Trenches Update: Top Web Sites for Summer Associates Burney’s Legal Tech Reviews: Visioneer Strobe XP 100 Scanner and FutureDial Mobile Phone Software
For those with access to the print or online version of today’s WSJ, see this article, Law Firm Cubicles and Libraries Give Way to Team Rooms, Lounges. Law firm office designs are “scaling back offices, the number of secretarial and paralegal cubicles, libraries, computer-servers and data-storage areas. Meanwhile, they are adding more communal spaces, from …
On June 23, Congressman Sanders of Vermont addressed the issue of the Freedom to Read Protection Act at the joint conference of the American Library Association and Canadian Library Association at their General Assembly Program in Toronto. Text of Sander’s statement.
From the press release: The Public Library of Science is a San Francisco-based non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a public resource. Since October 2000, more than 30,000 scientists, including 13 Nobel Laureates have supported the Public Library of Science and its mission. More information about PLoS, including …
Justices Put Access to Online Information in the Wrong Hands. Also see my posting, Supreme Court Backs Net Filters For Libraries. And, a cartoon is worth a thousand words… (sent by James S. Tyre).
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