When I first started reaching Marc Prensky’s Commentary, In the 21st Century University, Let’s Ban Books, (Page A30 of the November 18th Chronicle of Higher Education if you don’t have an online subscription), I thought it was going to be…
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Are eBooks Destined to Become the "8-track Tape" of the 21st Century?
In the context of current law eBook offerings, I think we can conclude from Jean O’Grady’s recent Dewey B Strategic post the answer to the title question is “yes.” (“The more I talk to publishers about the model for “circulating”…
Creating a Total Package to Compete with Wolters Kluwer in the 21st Century: BLaw+BNA and BGov+BNA in the Specialist Law, Regulatory and Business Marketplace
Assuming a majority of BNA former and current employee-shareholders tender their shares, an assumption that must take into account that many current employees are union-represented, Bloomberg, a company not known for acquiring other companies, will have made its largest acquisition…
Providing Routine Legal Services to the "Masses" in the 21st Century, Part Two: A Prescription for Allowing Main Street-Based Services Provided by Licensed Legal Assistance Practitioners
“The county’s public law library can help you because … .” Usually the sentence ends with “court forms” when spoken by local court employee or “information” when spoken by a legal services staffer whose office cannot provide the services requested….
Providing Routine Legal Services to the "Masses" in the 21st Century, Part One: Internet-Based Legal Document Prep Services
Does LegalZoom’s business practices violate Missouri law which bars non-lawyers from preparing legal documents? Been wondering when we would see this issue presented in court. Now that Missouri federal judge Nanette K. Laughrey has set a trial date, August 22,…
eReading Application Showdown
India Amos has launched a series of articles to analyze eReaders by functionality titled E-Reading Application Showdown on Digital Book World: The Publishing Community for the 21st Century. The areas she plans to discuss are Annotation Typography Colors and themes…
Freeing Digitally Conceived Text, Part 3: The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act is a Good First Step But Not a Major Accomplishment
Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act From the Prefatory Note’s Introduction Providing information online is integral to the conduct of state government in the 21st century. The ease and speed with which information can be created, updated, and distributed electronically, especially…
Is There a "Future" for Law Libraries Without Gov 2.0 and Competition in the US Market?: An Observation on Tomorrow’s "The Future of Law Libraries: The Future Is Now?" Conference Hosted by Harvard Law School Library
The Conference announcement poses a provocative question: This is supposed to be the future of law libraries. A decade into the 21st century, how is it working? Is the digital utopia all it’s cracked up to be? What’s taken off…
Come Back With a Warrant!
Quoting from EFF’s Kevin Bankston’s legislative analysis: [In mid-May,] Senator Patrick Leahy introduced much-needed legislation to update the Electronic Communication Privacy Act of 1986, a critically important but woefully outdated federal privacy law in desperate need of a 21st century…