February 27, 2008. Supreme Court rejects wiretapping suit “The U.S. Supreme Court declined February 18 to consider whether plaintiffs who believed they had been spied on without a court order could challenge the legality of such surveillance without tangible proof-even if the proof is classified as a state secret. The…
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world’d largest developer and publisher of international standards. Many of these standards relate to matters of interest and concern to law libraries and law librarians. Part of their process for standards development is to prepare drafts to various interested groups for comment and…
From: OCLC Updates. February 26, 2008. WorldCat.org users who want to keep tabs on lists of items created by fellow users can now do so without having to return to the site: Public WorldCat lists are available as RSS feeds that can be monitored using any RSS-capable service or software.…
News from the American Library Association: House allows warrantless wiretaps law to expire A dramatic showdown between House Republicans and Democrats February 14 has led to Congress beginning a one-week break without sending any surveillance legislation to the White House. The result is the February 16 expiration of the Protect…
“(U.S. 6th Cir., Feb. 5, 2008) – Defendants’ sentences resulting from their clumsy robbery of rare books from a university and attempts to sell them at auction are vacated and remanded for re-sentencing, where the district court erred by excluding books dropped and abandoned in the library stairwell from the…
We just received the following announcement and thought some of you might be interested even if you are not able to participate. Calling All Library Auteurs: Library Movie Festival! Free Nylink Community Brown Bag Session Date: Thursday, February 21, 2008 Time: 11:30am – 1pm Location: Mid-Manhattan branch of NYPL Have…
New Maryland Rules Now Free Online http://marylandlaw.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-maryland-rules-now-free-online.html * ————————————————– *Thanks to Trevor Rosen, Librarian at Shapiro Sher Guinot & Rosen in Baltimore, MD for sending this.
From LexisNexis, In the Know: In an exciting move, LexisNexis has been able to work with numerous cities, municipalities, and villages to obtain the right to publish their local codes, statutes or ordinances (depending on the term that the location uses). These sources are currently scheduled for updates twice a…
From Cassidy Cataloguing Inc. “We are pleased to announce that… Cassidy Cataloguing [is offering] MARC21 records for the World Trials Library. The MARC21 records for this collection will be developed and managed wholly by Cassidy Cataloguing, who is offering the records at a one-time subscription price. A subscription will include…
From William S. Hein and Company, Inc.: 1. Dahl’s Law Dictionary – Spanish/English 4th Edition Now in its fourth edition, Dahl’s was the first bilingual dictionary containing encyclopedic definitions. This new edition includes more than 11,000 words and phrases to aid researchers in defining legal terms in both English and…