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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Newark Public Library’s "Keeper of the Prints"
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.
E-Discovery Blogs And Tools
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.
Guide To Law Online
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!
Legal Threats Database
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.
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.
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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.