New Jersey Law Librarians Association (NJLLA)
A Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries
The Google Blog reports –
Starting today, we’re enabling people everywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar. You can find these opinions by searching for cases…or by topics…or other queries that you are interested in.
For the full story, click here.
The discussion continues in this recent Houston Chronicle (Chron.com) article, It’s online, and today’s librarians are experts at finding it.
A provocative editorial from the February 15th Library Journal, wherein John N. Berry III, Editor-at-Large, jberry@reedbusiness.com opines: “once professional responsibilities of librarians are being dumbed down into the duties of retail clerks or the robotic responses of machines.” Feel free to comment here or on the article site.
From Publishers Weekly: Twelve Research Libraries Join Google Library.
From today’s Princeton Packet: “A million books to be digitized over six years” The article is available here.