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Seeking Nominations for the 2012 Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing
...ssor Emeritus, Osgoode Hall Law School Michael Decore, Manager of Information Resources and Access, Alberta Law Libraries, George Tsiakos, Library Manager, Bull, Houser, Tupper, Vancouver. The Committee is chaired by CALL Past President, Rosalie Fox, who runs the library and information management branch at the Supreme Court of Canada. The award, established by CALL in 1999, was renamed to honour...
Developing and Using Stories to Teach Legal Research
...appropriate stories for teaching legal research List ideas for developing a story narrative for use in their law libraries Learn three of the essential elements of educational storytellingSpeakers: Vanessa Christman (formerly Uribe) is the director of the El Dorado County Law Library and was previously a public reference librarian and director of the Roseville Public Library’s Adult Literacy ...
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Special Libraries Association program - March 2, 2012 at UofL Brandeis School of Law
...Copyright Realities". Kurt Metzmeier will present “Free Assessable Government Information, Killed by a Thousand Budget Cuts?” Lars Smith will speak about PIPA and SOPA. Will Hilyerd will talk about legal research and Jim Becker may speak about courtroom technology and related issues. Cost: SLA-KY Members: $10, Non-Members: $20, Students: $5. An additional $1 service charge will be added to ...
Tags: sopa, access to information, pipa, government, lega research, fair use
ACLU argues that taxpayers should pay for porn - Communities purposes should not be thwarted by personal liberties
...ashington legal director Sarah Dunne (source). Forcing libraries to offer porn (or gambling, etc.), however, is a limitation. Libraries have only so many computers, only so much physical space. Somehow, libraries — guided by their communities — have to decide what appears on shelves and on computer screens. Or, is the ACLU saying libraries must offer EVERYTHING? If so, we will have to build l...
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On Public Access to Digital Data: Mining Public Comment
...n general proposed relative stakeholders recognize article databases focus force problem interest fund task critical recommended difficult report longer scientist flexible cases students participate position blue rapidly initiatives financial november written requiring possibility range recognizing demonstrate framework longterm line networked books blog 8. data repositories time government techni...
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ALA Admits Library Filters Work; Barbara Jones Bursts Her Own Breast Cancer Bubble
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"I've spent the past year and a half of my life in library school, and about three years before…"
...mic situation of the very poor? Pew Internet on Internet access. Your “80%” number is heavily influenced by ethnicity, socio-economic class, educational attainment. Also, there’s a damn-sight difference between bringing up the Facebook APP on your Blackberry, and trying to use the same device to write a research paper. EQUALITY (meaning, at any level, can they) may be approaching parity (a...
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PL 6/12: Correcting the KOSTRA statistics
...tical and economic issues incvolved and stressthe effective use of information graphics. Deadlines The deadline for statistics was yesterday (February 15). But there are many sessions still open as you can see from the list of all calls.. February Indigenous Matters Special Interest Group, Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section Theme: ”Empowering Library Services for Indigen...
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Grasping at straws
...ore vocal and open as they demand a better solution for distributing their works. It has always been problematic to give away the rights under copyright for free to publishers who then sold the works at a high profit, in which authors did not share. Now there are many other options available to authors, many of which publishers are anxiously trying to undermine. It is very important to some ...
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Links, Jobs, & Announcements #60
...f Toronto Law School), and Rebecca Tsosie (Arizona St. Law School). More participants will be confirmed in the coming weeks. Call for Authors: Multicultural America Encyclopedia We are inviting academic editorial contributors to Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia, a new 4-volume reference to be published in 2013 by SAGE Publications. Click here to download a zip file that contains...
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Preserving Email DPC Technology Watch Report released
...ns for more reports in the series in the near future. ‘Preserving Email is the first of five planned publications from leading experts in the new DPC Technology Watch Series. The format of the new reports has had a major redesign, and ISSN and DOI identifiers have been added. We hope these features will enhance the use, citation and impact of the reports. Further reports on Preservation of...
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January Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliograply published
... other articles. EDUCAUSE Review 47, no. 1 (2012): Includes “The Orphan Wars” and other articles. Ethics and Education 6, no. 3 (2011): Includes “The Academic Ethics of Open Access to Research and Scholarship” and other articles. Information Standards Quarterly 23, no. 4 (2011): Includes “Implications for a Medium-Sized Publisher in Using SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understandi...
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Getting the most out of an in-person professional conference…
...ming topics seemed to me to be turgid and dreary (I guess… I do not really know for sure…. as I switched off very early on). There was a backchannel conversation (via Twitter) about whether people presenting at VALA should be selected on presentation skills (via an audition movie ), as well as selected on the ideas that they had to express. I disagreed, arguing that people with good ideas o...
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Office of Commujnity Partnerships Newsletter - February 2012
...nter 115 Gibbs Street, Rockville, MD Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 children 12 and under. Gilchrist Center to Host Free Citizenship Information Session The Gilchrist Center for Cultural Diversity will present a Citizenship Information Session on Thursday, December 8th, 7:00 - 8:00 PM, at Upcounty Regional Services Center, 12900 Middlebrook Road, Suite 1100, Room 5, Germantown, Md 2087...
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When Lawyers Run the System It Becomes Dependent on Them
... prevent infringement of his cotton gin patent, and as a consequence made very little money from his invention. After a few chapters, I began to wonder what the point of all these anecdotes was. After all, the book bills itself as an explanation for America’s alleged decline in innovation. But it wasn’t clear what these blow-by-blow descriptions of the patent enforcement efforts of great 19th...
This Day, February 2, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
...ed to march to the camp center where they were forced to stand outside all night in their ragged clothing. Other times when the person who tried to escape was caught, during the winter they would pour water over him and force him to stay out in the freezing cold weather.” When I asked my grandfather if his father ever tried to escape, he replied, “No, he didn’t escape - nor did he try. There...
More bills sponsored by Prince George's senators (3 Feb 2012)
...y & Waste, Unfunded Mandates SB609; 2/3; Senator Benson; Task Force on the Establishment of a Statewide Spay/Neuter Fund - Sunset Extension; Education Health and Environmental Affairs; State Government - Agencies, Offices, and Officials; Studies & Commissions SB610; 2/3; Senators Benson, and Ramirez; Crimes - Sale of Drug Paraphernalia to a Minor - Local Law Authorizing Bus...
Hot off the presses! Jan 01 Nat Nanotechnol
... * Electron beams: An atom-sized vortex * Magnetic nanoparticles: At the crime scene * Nanoelectromechanical systems: Keeping the noise down * Electron microscopy: Mapping ensembles Nature480, 351–354 (2011) Any device that amplifies a signal inevitably adds noise, and quantum mechanics prevents this added noise being reduced below a certain value. It is possible to approach this quantum limi...
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2012
...tives Research Data- Architectures for large-scale data management (e.g., Grids, Clouds)- Cyberinfrastructures: architectures, operation and evolution- Distributed and collaborative information environments- Data mining and extraction of structure from networked information- Scientific data curation- Metadata for scientific data, data provenance- Services and workflows for scientific data- Data an...
Access to Foreign Law in Civil and Commercial Matters - Joint Conference European Commission, Hague Conference on Private International Law
...ds by Paraskevi MICHOU, Director of Directorate A, “Civil Justice”, Directorate-General Justice (European Commission) and Hans VAN LOON, Secretary General (Hague Conference on Private International Law) 2.45–3.45 p.m. Panel I – Theme I – The Global Need for Accessing the Content of Foreign Law – A Reality Chair and Moderator – Salla SAASTAMOINEN, Head of Unit A1 “Civil Justice Poli...