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November Meeting & Luncheon – Applying Technology in Libraries: Archiving at the New Yorker

Nov 2011 program flyer

New Jersey Law Librarians Association
November Meeting & Luncheon
 
Applying Technology in Libraries: Archiving at The New Yorker with Jon Michaud

Program Description:
Jon Michaud will discuss how The New Yorker magazine manages its archive, employing both paper and digital technologies, and how the magazine makes its archive available and accessible to its readers, from blogs to ebooks.

Presenter:
Jon Michaud is the head librarian at The New Yorker. He is a graduate of the University of East Anglia, in England and holds an MLS from Pratt in Brooklyn. His first novel, “When Tito Loved Clara” was published earlier this year. He lives in Maplewood, NJ with his wife and two sons.

Date/Time: Tuesday, November 15, 2011, 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Location: Saiber LLC, 18 Columbia Turnpike • Suite 200 • Florham Park, NJ • 07932
Directions:   (http://www.saiber.com/office.asp?id=1&/Florham_Park
Cost: $5.00 – members $10.00 – non-members $2.50 – students
Lunch Included

Please RSVP by Friday, November 11, 2011
Contact: Johanna Bizub email: jbizub@prudential.com or call 973-367-3175
Make check payable to: New Jersey Law Librarians Association
Mail to: Johanna Bizub, Prudential Insurance 751 Broad Street, NJ-01-04-13, Newark, NJ 07102-3714

COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT:
The Committee will be collecting canned and boxed food for a local food closet.

NJLJ DDS archive access restored to NJLJ subscribers

On September 1st, I posted that access to most of the Daily Decision Service Alerts on the New Jersey Law Journal web site had been limited to LexisNexis subscribers. I was informed today by our account manager at NJLJ, and have verified by looking at the site, that that blockage of access has been corrected. NJLJ subscribers now have full access to the DDS Alert archive, back to January 1994. NJLJ subscribers also have access to the archives of case summaries, notices to the bar, judicial guides, supplements such as the “New Partners Yearbook,” and the various columns such as “Inadmissible” and “On the Move.” It is only for feature articles and some other content such as editorials and “Voice of the Bar” that access is limited to LexisNexis subscribers when the material becomes six months old. – PAX

 

Supreme Court Rules Committee Reports

Back in 2009-10, at the recommendation of NJLLA, the Judiciary web site added a single index page leading to the biannual and annual pages that provide links to the reports of the various Supreme Court Rules Committees. That index page, which was at http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/reports/, has now been missing for some months, while a dead link to it remains in the “Quick Index” to the Judiciary web site. Communication to the Judiciary webmaster has been unavailing. The biannual and annual pages of reports are still on the site, and their addresses are consistently constructed, using the final year of the reporting cycle. For example, the page for the reports of the 2000-2002 cycle (the earliest reports on the site) is found at http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/reports2002/, and those of the the 2009-2011 cycle (currently the latest ones) are at http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/reports2011/. The Rutgers Law Library has compiled links to all the report pages at http://law-library.rutgers.edu/ilg/njlaw.php#reports.

Visit NJLLA’s web site at http://www.njlla.org.

article on N.J. legislative history

In a recent issue of Legal Reference Services Quarterly appears as article by Barbara H. Garavaglia (of the University of Michigan Law Library), entitled “Using Legislative Histories to Determine Legislative Intent in New Jersey,” 30 LRSQ 71 (2011). Of particular interest in the article is the section on “use of legislative histories in New Jersey Courts,” 30 LRSQ at 73-78 and the accompanying notes.

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BPU orders to be on the web

P.L. 2011, c.63, approved May 4, 2011, requires Board of Public Utilities orders to be in writing and to be posted on the BPU’s Internet website. The law is to be effective 30 days after enactment. [Follow-up: As of June 2nd, 2011, BPU orders from 2007 forward, current to mid-May, are available on the BPU website at http://www.state.nj.us/bpu/agenda/orders/.]

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Lexis Advance lacks segment-restriction

In the Beta version of Lexis Advance as of May 2011, the search capabilities do not include segment-restricted searching – that is, there is no efficient way to restrict a case law search by counsel, by opinion author, or by party. The content does not yet include any administrative regulations, but they are expected to be added this fall.

Visit NJLLA’s web site at http://www.njlla.org.

N.J.L.J. no longer in Westlaw, only in Lexis

As of May 1st, 2011, the New Jersey Law Journal is no longer on Westlaw, but is exclusively on Lexis. The NJLAWJ file on Lexis contains the N.J.L.J. from July 1990 forward — but the Unpublished Opinions column appears to be only available from January 1997 forward. To limit a search to the Unpublished Opinions column, use the segment restriction HEADLINE(UNPUBLISHED).

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Working Smart: Innovative Ways to Do More with Your Day

Speaker: Julia Hughes, Director of Library Services
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

Program Description: Not enough time to do it all? In the current economic environment, with shrinking resources, librarians need to be more innovative than ever before. The speaker will address that challenge by exploring and showcasing techniques and technologies that expand and maximize librarian efficiency.

Speaker Biography: Juli Hughes is responsible for Stradley Ronon’s library functions across six offices. Her core responsibilities include reference and research, negotiating online contracts and training attorneys and paralegals to use online resources. Prior to joining Stradley Ronon, Ms. Hughes worked as a solo librarian at a 65-attorney law firm in Lancaster, PA, and managed library services for five offices. She is an active member of AALL, serving on multiple committees, including the Conference of Newer Law Librarians Committee, the Private Law Libraries Special Interest Section Public Relations Committee and the Computer Services Special Interest Section. She frequently speaks at AALL programs.

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