New Jersey Law Librarians Association (NJLLA)
A Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries
Norman Oder of Library Journal reports that the Law Library of Congress has fiscal troubles. The Law Library has canceled at least $200,000 worth of subscriptions due to their increased costs, and further that funds need to be raised in order to reclassify approximately 675,000 volumes over the next ten years (over one-quarter of the Law Library’s collection).
Oder’s article goes on to discuss the wisdom of a proposed statutory change that would give the Law Library its own line item.
Although Martindale Hubbell is an established resource when you’re trying to track down an attorney, some firms opt out of this source. In LLRX, Scott Russell provides additional resources for looking up lawyers within the United States.
Public.resource.org, the brainchild of Carl Malamud, has struck a deal with Fastcase to electronically publish a free archive of federal case law.
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The Star Ledger’s I Am New Jersey blog contains a lengthy entry about Bill Dane, “the man who, for 60 years, has protected and enriched one of the finest public collections of prints in the country.
In Law.com, Robert J. Ambrogi provides this useful article that lists some very helpful EDD blogs and other online tools. If discovery support is a part of your job, you will find these resources to be invaluable.
The Law Library of Congress provides The Guide to Law Online, a handy and well-organized guide to online sources about government and law. You will want to add it to your favorite places list or your del.icio.us account!
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.
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.
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.
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.