Recently several elected ALA officers plus an association official and a task force chair met face-to-face with senior executives of Penguin, Macmillan, Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Perseus in New York City. At issue was publisher policies and practices…
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Browsing On A Sunday: Porn In Libraries, Librarians In Porn, Cultural Archives, And Affirmations Of Piracy
05
Feb
The issue of porn on public library computers is back in the news thanks to an incident at the Lake City Public Library in Washington State. A mother with her two children observed a man watching hard core porn there…
For the Love of It: On why law profs write fiction
27
Jan
Actually, on why one law prof writes fiction. See Ohio Northern Univ. law prof Scott Douglas Gerber’s article, Why a law profressor writes fiction in the January 2012 issue of The National Jurist at 14. Gerber admits the reason is…
How Libraries Can Go High-Tech on a Tight Budget
24
Jan
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…
Chief Justice Roberts on SCOTUS Ethics Procedures
03
Jan
“Some observers have recently questioned whether the Judicial Conference’s Code of Conduct for United States Judges should apply to the Supreme Court. I would like to use my annual report this year to address that issue, as well as some…
December Law Practice Today Issue Focuses on eLawyering
14
Dec
The latest edition of the ABA’s Law Practice Today webzine has good articles on elawyering and virtual practice and a really innovative piece by Marc Laurtisen titled, Dancing in the Cloud, and an introduction to the elawyering concept by Stephanie Kimbro — Getting Started With eLawyering).
I also wrote a short article on Document Assembly Over the Internet , which as readers of this Blog will know is an old theme for me.
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"Transparency continues to be an issue for AALL members"
18
Oct
In the From the President column in the September/October 2011 issue of AALL Spectrum, Darcy Kirk writes Transparency continues to be an issue for AALL members, so I plan to provide as much information to members as possible, in as…
