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Opening: Assistant Director for Information Services, George Washington University Law School, Jacob Burns Law Library

20 Oct

The George Washington University Law School seeks a qualified librarian to lead and manage the Information Services Division of the Jacob Burns Law Library. Basic qualifications for this position include an ALA-accredited MLS (or equivalent) and an ABA-accredited JD (or…

 

Perhaps Fidel Castro Isn’t a Good Example of an Alternative Career: Arizona Law’s Handbook Disappears from the Web

05 Oct

On Sept. 23, 2011, ATL’s Staci Zaretsky reported: A tipster from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law informed us that the school’s career services office put out a new publication this summer for students interested in…

 

Opening: Associate Dean for Library and Information Services, Valparaiso Law

04 Oct

Valparaiso University Law School invites applicants for the position of Associate Dean for Library and Information Services. This is a tenure or tenure eligible faculty position, reporting directly to the Vice Dean of the Law School, with an anticipated start…

 

Opening: Reference Librarian, Tarlton Law Library, Univ. of Texas

03 Oct

The Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law invites applications for a Reference Librarian position.The Tarlton Law Library is recognized worldwide for its innovative programs and services and for its distinguished resource collections. Tarlton…

 

Opening: Head of Serials, Tarlton Law Library

26 Sep

The Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law invites applications for the Head of Serials position. The Tarlton Law Library is recognized worldwide for its innovative programs and services and for its distinguished resource…

 

"Trust Me"? Might Be Time to Verify LSAT/GPA Stats Self-Reported to the ABA by Law Schools

23 Sep

It is at the Univ. of Illinois College of Law. After an internal investigation, the University of Illinois reported that its College of Law’s median LSAT score was 163, not 168, and median GPA was 3.70, not 3.81, for the…

 

Authors Guild Sues HathiTrust Over Orphan Books

14 Sep

Readers of this blog may have come across news stories of the Authors Guild suing various university libraries comprising the HathiTrust for digitizing copyrighted works and their plan to make orphan works available to their user communities. It was merely…

 

University of Illinois Investigating Posts of Fudged Class Profile Data

12 Sep

The news came this morning that the University of Illinois has withdrawn inaccurate data about the law class of 2014 that had been posted to its web site. The information consisted of grades and test scores composing the class profile….

 

Duke, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, and Emory To Offer Orphan Works Electronically

29 Aug

I wrote at the end of June about the decision by the University of Michigan Libraries to give campus access to electronic versions of orphan works scanned by Google from the school’s collection. See University of Michigan To Allow Campus…

 

Even More Law School Unhappiness

26 Aug

Law schools are easy targets for lawsuits these days, what with students suing their schools for fraud or faculty suing their administrators when collegiality is replaced by bad blood. One of the latest comes against the University of Pittsburgh, which…