The Citizen Media Law Project has created a Legal Threats Database in order to “create an accurate and complete collection of legal threats directed at online speech.” The Citizen Media Law Project is jointly affiliated with The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and The Center for Citizen Media. To read the news release about this project, click here.
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The Care And Feeding Of A Law Librarian
Do you think that your job is done once you hire a law librarian and provide your new hire with an orientation session? Think again. Tricia Kasting at Law.com provides these tips on how to create and maintain a productive work relationship with a law librarian.
November Luncheon Presentation Now Available
Kevin Reiss has made available his November 12, 2007 presentation, titled: A Web 2.0 Crash Course. Kevin is the Systems Librarian from the Mina Rees Library at the CUNY Graduate Center. Clcik here for the full presentation.
New Jersey Law Librarians Association November Luncheon
What do Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and their cousin, the social web, mean for law librarians? The 2.0 umbrella includes social networking tools such as facebook, new approaches to library catalogs and resource discovery like aquabrowser, social tagging tools like del.icio.us, and collaborative editing software like the ubiquitous wiki. Web 2.0 is a new approach to building web services based on a philosophy that utilizes technologies that can be rapidly deployed, easily combined, and easily modified. Web 2.0 technologies are rapidly emerging on the web and within vendor products. Come get an introduction to what Web 2.0 is, how 2.0 technologies are currently being used in libraries, and a hands-on demonstration of how some of them work.
Visit http://www.njlla.org/index.cfm for more information.
New Temp Jobs posted on NJLLA.org.
Check here for two new temp opportunities in NYC.
Bar Exam May Soon See Legal Research Questions
From UT-Austin’s Daily Texan: “Law professors from across the U.S. and Canada joined for a three-day conference, “Teaching the Teachers” at the UT School of Law to discuss how law students research and how they can improve these methods.” Click here for the full article.
AALL Call for Papers Competition Announcement
From a recent email sent to the AALL State, Court & County SIS <sccll-sis@aallnet.org> mailing list:
The “CALL FOR PAPERS” HAS BEGUN!
Have you been thinking of writing an article of interest to law librarians? Need a push to get started? Well, here it is.
The AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee is soliciting articles in three categories:
Open Division: for active and retired AALL members and law librarians with five or more years of professional experience.
New Members Division: for recent graduates and AALL members who have become law librarians since July 1, 2003.
Student Division: for students in library, information management or law school. Participants in this division need not be members of AALL.
The winner in each division receives $750 generously donated by LexisNexis plus the opportunity to present the winning paper at a program during the AALL Annual Meeting in Portland! Winning papers are also considered for publication in the Association’s prestigious Law Library Journal.
A list of previous winners is available at the Call for Papers web site. This list can give you an idea of the range of topics that law librarians have chosen. The web site also has additional information about the competition, including information on how to submit your entry and and application form. That web site is at: http://www.aallnet.org/about/award_call_for_papers.asp.
Articles in the Open and New Members Division must be submitted by March 1, 2008.
Articles in the Student Division must be submitted by April 15, 2008
If you have any questions, please contact a member of the AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee:
Chair, Joseph Gerken, gerken at buffalo.edu
James Donovan, jdonovan at uga.edu
James Heller, heller at wm.edu
Are Libraries Needed in a High-tech Internet World?
The Dothaneagle web site (Alabama) answers this question and others. Click here for the answers.
Two New Jobs Posted on NJLLA.org
Two new jobs have been posted on the NJLLA Employment Opportunities page. Check them out here.
The Life of a Modern Law Librarian
Even though her firm’s library has shrunk considerably in recent years, law librarian Sybil Turner finds herself busier than ever. This article from law.com discusses how online resources have changed the nature of legal research for librarians.