Pacer Extends Cap on Document Fee
From the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Pacer Service Center: 30 Page Cap Will Soon Include Docket Sheets See also the Chronology of the Federal Judiciary’s Electronic Public Access (EPA) Program
LC Grants Limited Digital Copyright Exemptions
Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works Statement of the Librarian of Congress Relating to Section 1201 Rulemaking Determination of the Librarian of Congress and Text of the Regulation The Recommendation of the Register of Copyrights
Personal Data Must Be Redacted from Paper and Electronic Filings Before Year’s End
From today’s Daily Business Review: “To prevent identity theft and other criminal uses of data as more court documents go online, the policy-making arm of the federal courts [U.S. Judicial Conference] has approved a plan that requires attorneys to delete selected personal data, including Social Security numbers, from both their paper and electronic filings [effective …
Online Cost Recovery for Legal Research
Taming Online Research: Tracking, Reporting, & Cost Recovery: “Law firm libraries and information centers have new and better oppurtunities to track usage of online research, and participate in cost recovery endeavors. Software vendors, both new comers and old timers, help make better reporting possible.”
Google to Compete With Amazon on Searchable Book Database
With Amazon having significantly increased the stakes in the e-commerce arena with the recent introduction of their Search Inside the Book service, news that a formidable new adversary may be actively exploring entering the same market. An article from yesterday’s Publishers Weekly,The Amazoning of Google? Search Firm Looks for Book Content, indicates that “Google has …
New Center to Assist Victims of ID Theft
The Financial Services Roundtable, with 100 financial services member companies, announced plans to launch a free Identity Theft Assistance Center, with a pilot program available by Spring 2004.
New Study on the Information Explosion
A team of researchers from the School of Information Management and Systems University of California, Berkeley released a new study today, How Much Information? 2003, that chronicles the information explosion over the past several years. According to the team, during the period of 1999 to 2002, “new stored information grew about 30% a year.” Additional …
Growing Number of Organizations Press for WHOIS Database Privacy
CircleID reports that a letter to ICANN, seeking increased privacy for the wealth of personal data available in the WHOIS database, has been signed by a coalition of 50 organizations, including the American Library Association (ALA). The ICANN Meeting is currently underway in Carthage, Tunisia through October 31, and a link to the agenda is …
House Speaker May Force Vote on Anti-Spam Bill
Internetnews.com reports that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert may push forward with a full floor vote on the Can Spam Act (passed by the Senate on October 22) tomorrow. The goal of passing an anti-spam bill by the end of the year is questionable in light of objections to various provisions of the Act.
Consumers of E-Publications More Web Savvy and Affluent
According to a new Nielsen//NetRatings study (link not available, and commissioned by Newsstand), “users of so-called e-editions of print publications are shown to be more affluent, better educated and heavier users of the Internet than the average online user.” [Link thanks to dc] See also this pbs.org interview by Terence Smith that “examines the growing …
HHS Releases Website Guidelines for E-Gov Websites
Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines covers 17 areas of website design, navigation, organization and content, and offers 187 site optimization guidelines developed primarily for federal government website managers and designers. The guide was created by the National Cancer Institute’s Usability.gov section.
Growing Influence of Librarians in Debate on Patriot Act
From Page One of today’s WSJ, an article titled, Patriot Act Riles An Unlikely Group: Nation’s Librarians– [subtitled] Fears About Terrorism Clash With Principles of Privacy As Online Searches Surge: “The Patriot Act has generated protests from the left and the right since it passed, almost unanimously, six weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. …