A librarian’s response to a user’s “challenging” of a children’s book dealing with gay marriage. It’s a really thoughtful response to a thorny issue.
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neilstewart
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AbsTracked
Genie Tyburski says she is going to close up The Virtual Chase. :(
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neilstewart
An interesting list of the most “modern” libraries in the world.
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Barbara Gordon
Two cases of interest: man wins libel case over false Facebook profile and Max Mosley wins privacy case against News of the World.
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Nick Holmes
In the latest issue of VIP Diane Raper provides an in-depth comparison of the Big Two legal information providers, LexisNexis Butterworths and Westlaw UK, while Jonathan Gordon-Till takes a close look at cchinformation.com, provider of access to full-text publications in tax and accountancy. Anyone fancy shelling out £54?
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lo-fi
QC sues LNB from Legal Week
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iOverlord
Appeals Court throws out janet jackson ‘wardrobe malfunction’ fine. At last, common sense. May do a blog post on this, once had time to read opinion.
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iOverlord
Don’t really have much need for Heath Law sites, but came across this one this morning ” LS Law, the world of life science law online.” and thought it was woth a plug.
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neilstewart
Flickr gallery of portraits of librarians. Hat tip to kottke.org.
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iOverlord
Proof that lobbying works has been born out by the announcement from the European Commission that it will push ahead with plans to extend the term of protection for recorded performances and the record itself from 50 to 95 years – idiots. Feel a blog post coming on.
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connie
Steve Matthews has written an article for the Canadian Bar Association’s CBA PracticeLink: Lawyer Marketing with Twitter. Kudos, Steve!
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neilstewart
Geoffrey Robertson makes a strong case against the use of anonymous witnesses in criminal trials.
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lo-fi
Here is the code for embedding the ORG fundraising widget in case anyone would like to add it to their own blog/site… Hmmm… didn’t work. Email me if you want it, but it can also be found here.
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shucha
The CS-SIS Web 2.0 Challenge site is now up. Enrollment is closed, but anyone can follow along as a guest. To access the course, go to http://www.cssis.org/Web20Challenge/login/ and select “Login as guest”
The Web 2.0 Challenge — a free, comprehensive, and interactive online course — will use hands-on exercises to introduce law librarians to many kinds of social technologies in just five weeks. The course is intended for those who have little experience with these technologies but are interested in learning more.
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lo-fi
This came to my email, but is addressed to Neil -
Hi Neil,
First, let me say thanks for covering the copyright extension issue
back in February on law.librarians, and mentioning the Open Rights
Group in the post. ORG has grown up online, so we know the value of a
well-placed link in getting our message out. So, thank you very much.That’s actually the reason I’m writing: ORG is kicking off a
fundraising drive this Saturday at Open Tech 2008, and we’d love your
help in publicising it. We hope to grow our supporter base from 750 to
1500 £5/monthly donors, which will bring us financial stability and
keep us protecting digital rights for years to come. Part of
tomorrow’s event is the unveiling of a thermometer-shaped widget that
will track our progress as new subscribers sign up. If you’re
interested in displaying this widget for us, I’ll send you the
embeddable code shortly after Saturday’s launch. Of course, if you’d
rather not wear our widget, we’d be thrilled with a post instead!If you’d like to help us at this crucial point in ORG’s lifetime, you
have my unending thanks (really!). If you’d rather not, though, no
worries — we don’t have a spam list, so just let me know, and you
won’t hear from us again.Thank you very much,
Dan
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neilstewart
Continuing the Google theme: Is Google Making us Stupid?, from Atlantic Monthly. Personally I was stupid long before Google came along.
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Barbara Gordon
Google to hand over YouTube viewer logs to Viacom “Google must hand over the log holding details of every user who has watched any video on YouTube, a US court ruled”
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iOverlord
Just realised that Complinet does rss feeds.
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iOverlord
The anti-trust and competition policy blog has a link to a new (free) on-line encyclopedia on competition laws covering 30 European jurisdictions, called the Antitrust Encyclopedia.
