Over at Slaw Wendy Reynolds writes Why Librarianship.
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connie
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connie
Darlene Fichter’s talk Monday morning at the Canadian Association of Law Libraries conference was definitely a highlight of this year’s conference for many of us. She has shared her slides, which I have reposted to Slaw.
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jamespmullan
Quick straw poll for UK Law Librarians, could you let me know what Library Management Systems you use/are aware of? My list has Workflows from SIRSIDynix, Heritage from Heritage, OLIB Webview, Liberty cant remember the name, Penny Bailey thing…any others?
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jrbeatty
Via Law Librarian Blog: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Hiring Director or Library and Archives. Anyone else find it amusing that one has to pass a drug test to work at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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Barbara Gordon
Leeds man named ‘dumbest criminal’ [Outlaw] “A Leeds man has had to be restrained by an ASBO from posting evidence of his own anti-social behaviour online. Andrew Kellett, 23, has been given the order to stop him posting films of his exploits on YouTube.” Future Darwin award winner, perhaps?
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jenenifer
For those who might need to know - there have been no new COM or SEC docs added to Eur-Lex since the 30th of April - apparently there is a technical fault with their system and they are currently unable to upload documents. This probably means that they haven’t been added to any of the subscription databases either, so if you need to find these, you may have to look a bit further afield.
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Barbara Gordon
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jennielaw
Because it is, I’m switching to soft drinks…
Sheesh - as if getting over-friendly with bicycles and pavements isn’t enough!
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nickholmes
Just testing user permissions. As Author I can post and edit. I get the Write Manage Comments and Upgrades menus, but I can’t change anything else. So all seems OK.
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lforste
Just re-posting after an earlier effort. I would be interested in your thoughts on the relevance of ‘authorised’ law reports today.
I have been puzzling as to why there has been no debate in the profession on the continued ‘tradition’ of the authorised law report. This year I have been perusing the library budget trying to figure out where the money goes and if there is any duplication that can be weeded out. I came to the section for electronic law reports and began to ponder the need for the various authorised reports, unauthorised reports, unreported judgment databases, and the variety of indexes and other tools we use to research caselaw. If the courts are providing judgments directly to the varous LII’s, then the issues that prompted the rise of the initial authorised law reports (UK) surely no longer exist. It is the judgment that is the law, the rest is editorial analysis - useful but not binding. There is significant push for online legislation to be official or authorised. Why is there no push for the web/LII versions of judgments to be accepted? Does it come down to the maintenance of contracts with the publishers? There are lots of issues surrounding this topic but I honestly cannot see why I need to be paying multiple times for the same judgment that the court is supplying free of charge to a LII (the finding and summary tools are something else). What does everyone else thinK? -
iOverlord
I just got a 2 question survey from Lexis: How likely are you to recommend LexisNexis News & Business* (Inc Nexis, LexisNexis Professional, LexisNexis Executive, KYC) to a friend or colleague? ( to be answered on a number scale), followed by what is the single most important thing that we could do to make you more likely to recommend us? (and a box for comments). nil points for good survey creation abilities. Context, people!
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nickholmes
Are there, like, only 17 law.librarians in the whole world?
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Barbara Gordon
UK government wants a phone call and email database. Worlds of bad!
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iOverlord
Interviewing Strategies that Work from Law Practice Today. Not a bad guide list.
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lo-fi
Just discovered the Legal Action Group’s news blog (although it started in March!) Shame on me :(
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AbsTracked
BYU’s Hunter Law Library has created a neat, new drop-down search toolbar for their students and faculty. Has anyone else created something with multiple database options like this for their library?
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Barbara Gordon
In excellent news: Information Commissioner gets power to fine for privacy breaches
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lo-fi
Records of the Parliament of Scotland - 1235 to 1707 found via the BBC
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connie
Jim Milles has created a Ning network for Law Libraries and Librarians. He just created it on the weekend and already we’ve got a crowd over there. Do join us.
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Barbara Gordon
Facebook users warned about [credit card] ads Apparently CC companies are flouting ad regulations by not including interest rate information (and targeting younger users…)
