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National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws to Form Study Committee on Online Authentication of Legal Materials
From the AALL E-Newsletter, March 2008:
“We have just learned of an exciting new outcome of AALL’s National Summit on Authentic Legal Information in the Digital Age convened by Immediate Past President Sally Holterhoff in April 2007. Delegate Michele Timmons, Minnesota revisor of statutes and a National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) commissioner, submitted a proposal to the Uniform Law Commission in June 2007 to create a study committee to explore the complex issues regarding digital authentication. The Law Revision Commission recently approved the new Study Committee on Online Authentication of Legal Materials to investigate the issues and discuss the feasibility of a uniform law or model act. The chair and members of the new study committee will be appointed in August, and AALL has been invited to name an observer…”
International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) Bursaries to Attend Conference in Puerto Rico
Conference Dates: November 30 – December 3, 2008:
You want to join the next IALL Annual Course?
The International Association of Law Libraries each year makes available financial assistance to enable law librarians who are normally unable to benefit from Association activities to attend the Annual Course in International Law Librarianship that forms the annual conference of the
ABA Book Publishing
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
Virtual Law: Navigating the Legal Landscape of Virtual Worlds
By Benjamin Tyson Duranske
2008 Jury System Impact Award
Deadline for all Nominations: April 1, 2008.
The ABA Commission on the American Jury Project established the Jury System Impact Award to recognize an individual or organization that has made significant contributions and tremendous efforts to the improvement, preservation and strengthening of the American Jury System.
The 2008 Award will be presented at the ABA Annual Meeting in New York, NY.
2008 State of the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Industry
Excerpts from AIIM President, John Mancini’s Keynote Address — 4 March 2008 — AIIM International Exposition and Conference
There are four intersecting tensions in the marketplace that have been at work over the past 2 years and are aligning right now to change all of this and to truly create the mainstream market that we have all thought was on the horizon.
#1 – Control Over half of those surveyed have either marginal confidence or no confidence in the integrity of their electronic information. That awareness alone is doing a lot to change the “pain”/”make the pain go away” equation.
Hein Publications: Electronic HeinCites
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Illegal Sex Discrimination or Permissible Customer Preference? Refusal to Hire and Employ Male Gynecologists:
A Legal Research Guide
American Libraries Direct – March 12, 2008
News from ALA and the world of libraries:
New York librarian becomes embedded journalist in Iraq
“Twice in the past two years, librarian Shelby Monroe persuaded the 101st Airborne Division to let her be an embedded war correspondent and blogger. In those articles and accompanying photographs, she tries to capture the ordinary lives of American soldiers and Iraqis. To go to Iraq, she quit three part-time jobs-in the Chappaqua (N.Y.) Library, the Field Library in Peekskill (where she worked as adult services reference librarian), and in the Village Bookstore in Pleasantville….”
Emerging Library Leaders for the 21st Century
The Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science at River Forest, Illinois (near Chicago) has been conducting a series of innovative workshops on this topic, including the following:
March 17, 2008: 4-6pm
“Get a Voice: Why Writing, Blogging and Speaking Out Are Crucial to Advancing Your LIS Career”