I usually appreciate the work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, though I sometimes roll my eyes at the hyperbole in some of those positions. Biases aside, the EFF report on the Stop Online Piracy Act (H.R. 3621) is pretty right-on…
Law Library Information Budget Estimates Decline by 21.7% According to 2011 AALL Findings
01
Nov
The 2011 edition of The AALL Biennal Salary Survey and Organizational Characteristics is now available. While the salary survey findings may not be very useful in the private and government sectors, the findings of organizational characteristics with respect to information…
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…
Who’s Up For Some Dumpster Diving at the Library of Congress?
31
Oct
Did you know that the Library of Congress gets at least two copies of everything copyrighted in the United States? And that includes law journals? And that they don’t keep everything that they get deposted through this program so they…
Librarians, Vendors and AALL: Is anyone really asking (or expecting) AALL to do their jobs for them when conducting business with vendors?
31
Oct
In calling upon AALL to doing something in terms of consumer advocacy for its institutional buyer members in the commercial marketplace, some, well at least one, professional law librarian, apparently thinks law librarians are not performing their jobs: Asking AALL…
Round-Up of Law Practitioner Blogs
30
Oct
Jacksonville Personal Injury Lawyer Blog http://www.jacksonvillepersonalinjurylawyerblog.com/ http://www.jacksonvillepersonalinjurylawyerblog.com/index.xml Discusses personal injury cases, news, and opinions in Florida. Published by Apple Law Firm, PLLCLos Angeles Trademark Attorney Blog Los Angeles Trademark Attorney Blog http://www.losangelestrademarkattorney.pro/ http://www.losangelestrademarkattorney.pro/index.xml Examines trademark cases, news, and related matters…
Industry Sector Analysis of Big Data Harvesting
29
Oct
“‘Big data’ refers to sets of data whose size surpasses that of what data storage tools can typically handle. As the amount of digital data grows exponentially each year, big data has the potential to become the next frontier for…
A Word About Better World Books
28
Oct
There are times when a library has to weed a collection because of space or other constraints. The question arises as to what to do with the discarded items, which at times can be significant in numbers. I’m not talking…
Fighting for Open Access in Academic Legal Publishing
28
Oct
During this year’s Open Access Week, CALI Director of Content Development Sarah Glassmeyer published the first post-launch announcement feature on the new CALI Spotlight blog. In Why We Fight, Sarah writes: I feel like OA doesn’t get as much traction…
Friday Fun: A Blast from the Past: the forgotten web browsers of the early 1990s
28
Oct
On Ars Technica, Matthew Lasar presents a brief but interesting historical snaphot of early 1990s web browsers — CERN browsers, Erwise, ViolaWWW, Midas, Samba, Mosaic, Lynx and Cello — complete with screen captures and some background information about them. Lasar…
