Top Ten Stories of the Week December 23, 2008. Law Firms Is Thacher Proffitt Dissolving Before Christmas? Dec 22, 2008, 11:59 am CST Law Firms 100 Thacher Lawyers Don’t Satisfy Sonnenschein’s Growth Ambitions Dec 22, 2008, 08:51 am CST Criminal Justice Don’t Feed the Inmates: Arrested Lawyer Learns Lesson the…
December 2008 Volume 1 Pop-Ups From the Desk of David Badertscher We’ve all experienced Pop-up windows, or “pop-ups,” while browsing the Internet. Pop-ups may appear without any interaction or prompting by the end user. They can be innocuous, such as when used for advertising, but they can be used for…
Source: AALL: From the Desk of James E. Duggan, December 18, 2008. Some welcome news is today’s tough economy, U.S. News and & World Report last week named librarianship as a “Best Career 2009.” The overview dispels the image of librarians as “mousy bookworms,” reporting that librarians have become “high-tech…
From: New York State Archives – Region 1 Newsletter, December 2008 The New York State Archives is pleased to announce the release of its email policy development guidelines. These guidelines are intended as a starting point for state agencies and local governments to use for writing policies and procedures that…
According to libraryjournal.com, a libraries taskforce has been formed to investigate the recent OCLC policy changes regarding the use and transfer of WorldCat records. According to libraryjournal.com: “Taking a step likely to be welcomed by many in the cataloging community, the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) and the Association…
According to an NBC report on MSNBC, use of library has gone “way up” during the present economic downturn; circulation is “skyrocketing”. All of this at a time when the budgets of many of these libraries are being cut.. When you go to the above link, be patient, You will…
“GPO’s Authentication initiative focuses on the primary objective of assuring users that the information made available by GPO is official and authentic and that trust relationships exist between all participants in electronic transactions. In furthering GPO’s mission to provide permanent public access to authentic U.S. Government publications, GPO is working…
QUESTION: What are libraries with existing Thomson West Library Maintenance Agreements (LMAs) planning to do when those Agreements come up for renewal? Responses, arranged by type of library are quite varied. All names have been removed to protect privacy but we are especially grateful to the person who both submitted…
BY: Emmy Gordon Case Manager National Pardon Center of Canada Many fantastic careers await today’s law students upon graduation. There are the typical directions down the criminal justice road that many will take such as working as a public defender, a pardon attorney, a probation officer, or working in an…
An e-Newsletter of the American Library Association. December 10, 2008 Libraries nix dissed Christmas displays In separate incidents, the holiday-spirit sensibilities of library patrons have trumped tradition at the Oberlin (Ohio) Public Library and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: The first library heeded public comment by removing…