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Soliciting Professional Intelligence for Addressing Our Legal Relationship with Vendor Business Practices and Their Licensed Content

05 Dec

The Vendor Colloquium resulted in two documents, A Statement of Shared Principles and an Action Plan. Follow-up work has commenced. The October 2011 issue of AALL’s eNewsletter included an announcement that our President has recently established two task forces to…

 

Soliciting Professional Intelligence for Addressing Our Legal Relationship with Vendor Business Practices and Their Licensed Content

05 Dec

The Vendor Colloquium resulted in two documents, A Statement of Shared Principles and an Action Plan. Follow-up work has commenced. The October 2011 issue of AALL’s eNewsletter included an announcement that our President has recently established two task forces to…

 

Yale Law Journal Joins the Ranks of Major Law Journals Issuing eBook Editions Published by Quid Pro Books

14 Nov

Yale Law Journal has joined Standford Law Review and Harvard Law Review in making available issues in multiple eBook formats published by Quid Pro Books. Starting with vol. 121, no. 1, dated October 2011, YLJ is now available for Kindle…

 

Copyright Office Identifies Libraries, Mass Digitization as Priority In Copyright Policy

31 Oct

Maria A. Pallante, the Registrar of Copyrights, released a report last week identifying the legislative priorities for October 2011 through October 2013. These are, as the proverb goes, interesting times for copyright law, what with every interested party staking out…

 

Are We/They Worth It? Collective Bargaining for Public Employees

24 Oct

In the October 14th Chronicle of Higher Education article “Faculty Unions Ponder New Strategies in Changed Political Climate,” author Schmidt reports on the largely successful campaigns in both Ohio and Wisconsin to defeat the right of faculty unions to engage…

 

"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…

 

Reminder: HeinOnline Webinar on New Enhancements and Law Journal Library Subject Searching Set for Wednesday

18 Oct

From the announcement: Wed., October 19, 2011 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT- Register Now What is covered in this webinar? During this webinar we will demonstrate some of our newest enhancements and focus further on how to make the…