I’m back from Chicago Kent where I attended the Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium. I was unable to live blog the afternoon sessions, so I’ll share a few thoughts now. Right after …
Month: May 2007
Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium – Librarian and Practitioner Legal Research Survey Results
At the mid-morning session at the Back to the Future Symposium, we learned about the results from various practitioner and librarian surveys regarding legal research practices. Speakers were Sanford Greenberg and Tom Gaylord of Chicago-Kent …
Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium – Access to Digital Legal Information
I’m down in Chicago today attending the Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium. The morning session has been very thought provoking. We heard from Mary Alice Baish of the American Association of Law …
LLJ Articles from the Berring Symposium on Legal Information & the Development of American Law
The latest edition of Law Library Journal is out and it contains articles from the symposium on Legal Information and the Development of American Law: Further Thinking about the Thoughts of Robert C. Berring. Included …
Wisconsin Eye Legislative Broadcasts to Begin Today
Although the site still says it’s under construction, WisconsinEye is scheduled to broadcast its first live gavel-to-gavel Internet coverage of the state Assembly and Senate at 11 a.m. today. According to JSOnline PoliticsWatch: WisconsinEye has …
Thomson to Take Over Reuters
The New York Times reports that Reuters agreed today to a “$17.2 billion takeover by Thomson that would vault the combined entity ahead of Bloomberg to become the world’s largest financial data and news provider.” …
Hollywood Librarian to Premier Next Month – Trailer on YouTube
The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians through Film, the first full-length documentary film to focus on the work and lives of librarians, is scheduled to premier at American Library Association (ALA) 2007 Annual Conference …
Univ of Washington Launches WorldCat Local
From OCLC: The University of Washington Libraries is the first to pilot WorldCat Local, a new service that builds on WorldCat.org to allow Web access to the world’s richest database for discovery of materials held …
USPS Rates Go Up Today
Don’t forget that the new United States Postal Service rates go into effect today. The price of a first class stamp is now 41 cents. Looks like I’ll have to go get a bunch of …
Law Library Podcasts – Experiences and Insights
There is an interesting article entitled “Are You Podcasting: Current Uses of Podcasts in Law Libraries” in the May issue of AALL Spectrum. Although they haven’t caught on as quickly as blogs have (there are …