Many of us just learned the sad news that Nylink, which has served New York State Libraries for 37 years, is phasing out its operations and will be closing in one year. We understand that Nylink will be closing its operations primarily due to a steep decline in its revenue…
Jonathan Stock who along with others has been working tirelessly to save six threatened law libraries in Connecticut from closure due to financial constraints. Here is Jonathan’s latest report, received as an e-mail on May 6, 2010.: The Connecticut General Assembly closed down last night. We now know that the…
By Joni L. Cassidy Cassidy Cataloging Services, Inc, On March 17, 2010, my post about www.theSkyRiver.com and OCLC included the following statement: “OCLC and Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc. may finally reach a compromise. OCLC may grant permission to allow a WorldCat Local institution that has purchased Cassidy MARC record sets…
TITLE: Capital Punishment on Trial SUBTITLE: Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty in Modern America AUTHOR: David M. Oshinsky PUBLICATION DATE: April 14, 2010 PUBLISHER: University Press of Kansas PAGE COUNT: 160 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7006-1711-1 (Paper) 978-0-7006-1710-4 (Cloth) PRICE: $14.95 (Paper) $29.95 (Cloth) Oshinsky , a Pulitzer-prize winning historian…
In a unanimous 3-0 Decision last Tuesday April 6 the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Federal Communication Commission did not have the authority to order Comcast in 2008 to cease and desist interfering with the traffic of Bit Torrent a P2P…
A select bibliography. In response to a recent request I compiled a short, selected list of treatises published between the years 1880 and 1990. It is being reproduced here for the benefit of those readerw who might also be interested. This list is selective and thereroe not intended to be…
Posted by : Joni L. Cassidy, Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc. 3/17/10 DEFINITION OF TERMS: OCLC WorldCat – the union database of bibliographic and authority records contributed by member libraries, the Library of Congress, the National Library of Medicine, the National Agriculture Library, the U.S. Government Printing Office and several other…
Udated March 17, 2010. On Tuesday March 16, 2010 the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a proposal to overhaul the U.S. broadband* policy by introducing a plan that would provide higher speed internet access and much faster internet connections thoughout the U.S. than are presently available. The plan sets…
Mary Alice Baish, Director of Government Relations and Emily Feldman, Advocacy Communications Assistant (both of the American Association of Law Libraries, AALL), have been doing a tremendous job serving as advocates for high quality and highly accessible legal information on the web in a format that can be authenticated. The…
The 2010 CyberSecurity Watch Survey, sponsored by Deloitte and conducted in collaboration with CSO Magazine, the U.S. Secret Service, and the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon, indicates that threats posed by cyber crime have increased faster than potential victims — or cyber security professionals — can cope with, placing…