It may not be as big an issue in the private sector which knows how to justify the costs associated with using 21st century tech but it can be a fairly big deal in the academic and government sectors. In…
Posts Tagged ‘century’
"The physical book is a jail for ideas" – Prensky
21
Nov
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…
What Was the Legal Status of "Wanted – Dead or Alive" in the Wild West Days? (Assuming those posters weren’t a creation of Hollywood)
07
Oct
Kenneth Anderson wants to know: First, to what extent was this actually a historical practice [in 19th century frontier days], or is it really just a creation of Hollywood westerns– any scholarship on this, or actual examples? Second, from the…
Are eBooks Destined to Become the "8-track Tape" of the 21st Century?
29
Sep
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
26
Aug
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…
eReading Application Showdown
05
Aug
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…
History of Dictionary Usage by the Supreme Court: Is SCOTUS Guidance Needed?
27
Jul
And we are not talking about Black’s Law Dictionary. From the abstract of Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier and Samuel A. Thumma, Scaling the Lexicon Fortress: The United States Supreme Court’s Use of Dictionaries in the Twenty-First Century, 94 Marq. L. Rev….
Freeing Digitally Conceived Text, Part 3: The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act is a Good First Step But Not a Major Accomplishment
21
Jul
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
15
Jun
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!
09
Jun
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…
