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mahi manral Hassle Free Household Shifting With Movers Packers in Hyderabad

These days the moving agencies are doing are a great in the industry of packers and movers. They are well known in the market for providing best packing and moving services to the customer at the most economical rate. What are the reasons for their popularity is not the price they charge but the services they provide. They have team of expert professionals who are proficient in packing and shifting of goods without making even a single scratch on it. More of all these companies are highly experi… Continue

Added by mahi manral on November 7, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

marty Libraries of Health Records

What do people think about the new hospital libraries? They are getting all info such as heart surgery and short term health insurance records recorded in a data base for retrieval in health care situations. Is it legal for all personal information to be availabl… Continue

Added by marty on November 1, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Rob Richards Legal Research Instruction: Recent Developments

Colleagues, Greetings. I've gathered information about recent developments in legal research instruction, in a new post at Legal Informatics Blog. Comments are welcome. Happy holiday weekend, and best wishes for the new semester/quarter, Rob Continue

Added by Rob Richards on September 6, 2009 at 2:22pm — 1 Comment

Betsy Chessler Trying out Ning

As part of AALL's Web 2.0 Challenge, I am getting up to speed on social networking sites, and Ning is one I wanted to try out. Continue

Added by Betsy Chessler on August 21, 2009 at 7:54pm — 3 Comments

Rob Richards Law School Admission Project & Legal Research

Colleagues, Professor Marjorie Shultz of Boalt Hall just gave me permission to distribute a report explaining the methodology used in developing the "effectiveness factors" utilized in the The Law School Admission Project: Looking Beyond the LSAT. Those factors include "Researching the Law." The report also includes a useful literature review of empirical studies that ide… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on August 17, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Rob Richards Susskind on The End of Lawyers

Colleagues: I've put together, over at Legal Informatics Blog, links and cites to a number of resources (including lectures, interviews, commentary, and reviews) related to Dr. Richard Susskind's book, The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services (2008), which is being widely discussed by lawyers and leg… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on August 7, 2009 at 5:50pm — No Comments

Amy Domestico Lavelle Law Ltd. initiated a series of weekly podcasts

Lavelle Law Ltd. initiated a series of weekly podcasts covering topics associated with its various practice groups. The series, "Chicago's Legal Latte," can be heard live Tuesdays at 4 p.m. at http://budurl.com/Chicagolaw Continue

Added by Amy Domestico on August 4, 2009 at 8:35pm — No Comments

Lucie Olejnikova Building Law Library After 30 Years of War

The Foreign, Comparative & International Law (FCIL) SIS invites you to attend an Annual Meeting event … FCIL-SIS Executive Committee Presents The Past, Present, and Future of the Law Library and Librarianship in Afghanistan: The Challenges and Rewards of Building a Library After 30 Years of War Please join the recipient of the 2009 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians, Mr. Ahmadullah Masoud (Independent Nati… Continue

Added by Lucie Olejnikova on July 10, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Rob Richards Law Student Learning Styles: Boyle et al., Law Students Are Different from the General Population

Colleagues: Jim Milles recently pointed us to the following new article on SSRN, which may be of interest: Robin Boyle et al., Law Students Are Different from the General Population: Empirical Findings Regarding Learning Styles, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1416866. Abstract: "The authors conducted an empirical study comparing the learning styles of law students with young adults at other educational institutions. The law school sampl… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on July 1, 2009 at 5:12pm — No Comments

Lyonette Louis-Jacques Greening the Legal Profession (and Law Libraries)

In the "it's never too late" department, I just finished listening to the "Greening the Legal Profession" webinar co-sponsored by AALL for Professional Legal Management Week (PLMW), September 2008. The .wmv file is here: http://bit.ly/pOSIC The PowerPoint file is here: http://bit.ly/wJxwA Related files from AALL are here: Spending Green How law libraries can save energy and money with cow-bel… Continue

Added by Lyonette Louis-Jacques on June 26, 2009 at 12:15pm — No Comments

Lyonette Louis-Jacques The Law Librarian on Blog Talk Radio (Richard Leiter and Brian Striman's show)

Just listened in to the most recent radio show on "Managing Electronic Titles in Law Libraries" with guests, Yael Mandelstam and Angela Jones providing a technical services perspective. Great stuff! And there's a chat room where listeners can exchange information, links, and ask questions. There were up to 82 listeners today. The shows are archived so you can listen in later: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thelawlibrarian/ In previous e… Continue

Added by Lyonette Louis-Jacques on June 5, 2009 at 4:34pm — No Comments

Sally Irvin Announcing the Web 2.0 Challenge 2009 A Free, Online Course to Introduce Law Librarians to Web 2.0 Technologies

Last year the AALL Computing Services Special Interest Section sponsored the first Web 2.0 Challenge, an online course to introduce law librarians to social software and how to use it in their libraries. The course was so popular CS-SIS is sponsoring it again in 2009. The Web 2.0 Challenge will provide a free, comprehensive, and social online learning opportunity designed for law librarians that incorporates hands-on use of these technologies. The course is intended for law librarians who have… Continue

Added by Sally Irvin on June 3, 2009 at 11:59am — No Comments

Rob Richards Future of Private Legal Services Market: Discussion

Jim Milles has a fine post at Out of the Jungle about the debate over the permanence of the contraction in the private legal services market. This is an important contextual issue respecting legal informatics, legal education, and law libraries. A lively debate is taken place in the comments to Jim's post… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on May 22, 2009 at 2:03pm — No Comments

Rob Richards WolframAlpha & Legal Research

Colleagues: Some of us have done some testing of legal questions on WolframAlpha this weekend; results so far are reported in the comments to this post at Legal Informatics Blog. What are your experiences with WolframAlpha and law-related questions? Please add comments to this post or join us for discussion of this topic… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on May 17, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Rob Richards Web 3.0 Presentation: Macmanus & Boutin

Colleagues: Richard Macmanus summarizes Greg Boutin's presentation on Web 3.0 at http://bit.ly/ROmgs ; both look useful and current. Rob Richards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robert C. Richards, Jr., J.D.*, M.S.L.I.S., M.A. Law Librarian & Legal Information Consultant Philadelphia, PA richards1000@comcast.net Legal Informatics Blog: http://legalinformatics.wordpress.com Legal Information Systems & Legal… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on May 15, 2009 at 5:26pm — No Comments

Rob Richards Legal Informatics Blog Now Available

Colleagues: Legal Informatics Blog, offering scholarly and professional commentary on legal information systems, is now available. It's a companion site to Legal Information Systems & Legal Informatics Resources, which gathers resources on legal information systems research. We also have a Twitter feed at h… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on May 15, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Lyonette Louis-Jacques Happy (belated) Birthday, Law Libraries and Librarians Ning! (launched May 11, 2008)

Just realized this network is a year old! All I can say is, thanks, Jim! :-) Cheers, Lyo. http://listproc.ucdavis.edu/archives/law-lib/law-lib.log0805/0111.html Continue

Added by Lyonette Louis-Jacques on May 12, 2009 at 7:02pm — 1 Comment

Lyonette Louis-Jacques The Kindle for Law Libraries and Librarians (E-Book Readers)

I've drafted an article for a local newsletter on how the Kindle can be used in law settings. I tried to make it broadly applicable, but may have a law school library bias...:-) Anyway, comments and any other feedback are welcome! [I've removed the draft pending publication of the article; will post new URL when the revised article is published - Lyo, June 2, 2009] Continue

Added by Lyonette Louis-Jacques on May 10, 2009 at 1:00am — 7 Comments

Celeste R. Smith Why Learning about Emerging Technologies is Part of Every Librarian’s Job

I really liked the article, Why Learning about Emerging Technologies is Part of Every Librarian’s Job posted by OPL on May 5. It discusses 21 reasons why learning emerging technologies is basically a standard for success in today's world. Being technologically adept is one of those "need to have items" on a checklist of skill sets. It was also a theme that continued to weave its way through the moderated discussion on the AALL Competencies (held by CPE last week). It might be nice to sha… Continue

Added by Celeste R. Smith on May 8, 2009 at 11:11am — 1 Comment

Karen B. Douglas AALL Workshop W-3 Managing from the Middle: Techniques for Success in Technical Services

AALL Annual Meeting Workshop W-3 Managing from the Middle: Techniques for Success in Technical Services! There's no better time than now to speak up and speak out on behalf of your department .. register for the workshop that will help you get started. Advocacy: how to promote your department within the library, with the main library, faculty, administration etc. Filippa Marullo Anzalone, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Library & Technology Services Boston College Law Library… Continue

Added by Karen B. Douglas on April 24, 2009 at 2:25pm — No Comments

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