Following up on LLB’s post, Won’t Publish, Won’t Referee, Won’t Do Editorial Work: Professors boycotting Elsevier STM journals because of the Company’s business practices, see also The Chronicle’s recent article. It reports on Elsevier’s response to the boycott and interviews…
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LLB Turns Seven Years Old Today
Happy New Year’s Day to all and happy anniversary to all the co-editors, contributing editors and readers of LLB since we started publishing on Jan. 1, 2005. [JH]
Last LLB Legal App Post of 2011
Come to think of it, I don’t believe I post very often about apps, at least not in a positive light. But I kind of like this one. Its WolframAlpha’s Lawyers Professional Assistant App for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad….
LLB’s 2011 Awards for Creative Alternative Uses for No Longer Needed Print Books
And the winners are: First Place: Constructing Public Services Desks out of pBooks Second Place: Repurposing Legal Reporter Volumes into Book Flasks (Bender Bound) Third Place: Going Green by Using Law Reporter Volume Bindings as Floor (or Wall) Covering Damn…
Sarah Glassmeyer, Recipient of Two Very Prestigious LLB 2011 Awards
In the spirit of “Best 2011 ‘Something’ Awards,” LLB is delighted to announce that Sarah Glassmeyer’s has been awarded LLB’s 2011 Best Recap of the Year Blog Post again. Actually we didn’t have an official LLB award last year, so…
Where is the Legislation That Banned Christmas?
First published in LLB on Dec. 25, 2007. Cromwellian apologists, like the Cromwell Association, argue that there is no evidence to support the myth that Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas: There is no sign that Cromwell personally played a particularly large…
SOPA Mark-Up: Manager’s Substitute and Links to Webcasts of Committee Hearings
Text of the Manager’s Subsitute for H.R. 3261, the “Stop Online Piracy Act”, referred to in yesterday’s LLB post. Links to “official” yesterday’s and today’s webcasts (well, sort of) and more here. [JH]
Being There: From Existential Angst to Professional Optimism
While my Thanksgiving Day LLB post was full of existential angst about the future from a personal, that is to say non-professional, perspective, Jenny Wondrackek’s RIPS Law Librarian post offers a more positive professional perspective: With all of the budget…