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WestlawNext

I thought it would be useful to start a discussion about WestlawNext.  Participants in this thread might post links to reviews, thoughts on timing and pricing, summaries of preview breakfasts, etc.  …

Tagged: WestlawNext, Westlaw

Started by Scott Frey in Legal Research Feb 2.

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New on VoxPopuLII: Iyengar on Free Access to Law in India

At the VoxPopuLII Blog, Prashant Iyengar, Esq., of Columbia University and Alternative Law Forum, has just published Confessions of a Legal Info-holic. The post describes the creation of OpenJudis, w…

Tagged: Prashant Iyengar, Sushant Sinha, VoxPopuLII, OpenJudis, Legal information institutes

Started by Rob Richards in Innovation and Change Feb 1.

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Rhodes on Preserving Born-Digital Legal Materials

Sarah Rhodes of Georgetown University Law Library and the Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive, has published an overview of preservation of digital legal information, entitled Preserving Bor…

Tagged: Preservation of legal inform…, Sarah Rhodes, VoxPopuLII, Preservation of electronic l…, Preservation of digital lega…

Started by Rob Richards in Innovation and Change Jan 15.

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December 31 Deadline: Request for Comment: Legal Ethics Reform Proposals Being Considered by ABA Ethics 20/20 Commission

Comments are invited (please scroll down), with submission deadline of 31 December 2009, on the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20 Preliminary Issues Outline. The Commission's charge is to "perform a tho…

Tagged: Legal social networks, Legal social media, Legal ethics reform, Outsourcing of legal services, Privileged information

Started by Rob Richards in Innovation and Change Dec. 28, 2009.

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Lucie Olejnikova

2010 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians

The Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries is now accepting applications for the 2010 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians.

The FCIL Schaffer Grant for the July 10-13, 2010 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado provides a waiver of the AALL Annual… Continue

Posted by Lucie Olejnikova on February 5, 2010 at 4:30pm

Lyonette Louis-Jacques

About the Law Libraries and Librarians Ning Network

The Law Libraries and Librarians Ning was started by Jim Milles over a year ago. He posted a notice about it on the law-lib list on May 11, 2008.

http://lawlibraries.ning.com/

The Ning administrators are:

Connie Crosby
Lyonette Louis-Jacques
Roger Skalbeck
Elizabeth Farrell

Becoming a member of the Law Libraries and Librarians Ning network wa… Continue

Posted by Lyonette Louis-Jacques on January 4, 2010 at 8:56pm

Rob Richards

CFR in XML Available for Bulk Download from GPO

The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) for 2007-2009 is now available for bulk download in XML from U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) FDsys. Click here for the user guide.


Why is this of potential interes

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Posted by Rob Richards on December 27, 2009 at 11:36pm

Rob Richards

Legal Educational Methods & Technology: Special Issue of JILT

The new issue of JILT: Journal of Information, Law & Technology is a special issue devoted to legal educational methods & technology, and contains a number of articles that may be of interest to law librarians:



  • Simon Ball & Helen James,

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Posted by Rob Richards on December 27, 2009 at 11:30pm

Connie Crosby

Monday - join us for The Law Librarian roundup of the past year!

Join us for the Year in Review on The Law Librarian Dec. 21.

Guests include: Connie Crosby, Marcia Dority Baker, Margie Maes, Tracy Thompson Pryzluki, Roger Skalbeck and Richard Leiter discussing this year's legal information developments on BlogTalkRadio's The Law Librarian Monday morning December 21 at 11:00 AM Eastern

Thanks to the Law Librarian blog for noting this and other discussions in… Continue

Posted by Connie Crosby on December 18, 2009 at 12:57pm

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Notes Home

Welcome to Notes.  We are hoping to use this wiki-like space to plan out some meetings in the meebo chat room.  What topics would you like to discuss as a group in the meebo chat room? We can schedule chat "meetings" in advance at a set date and time.  Some uses:

  • professional development [What would you like to learn? What would you like to teach?]
  • brainstorming [Do you have a project you are working on? Upcoming presentation you need input on?]
  • moral suppor
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Created by Jim Milles May 15, 2008 at 9:51am. Last updated by Connie Crosby May. 15, 2008.

 
 

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