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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”
Routledge Library Newsletter
From:
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Welcome to the second issue of the Routledge Library Newsletter!
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer Resigns
NEW YORK (AP) – Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced Wednesday that he is resigning, completing a spectacular fall from power for a politician whose once-promising career imploded amid allegations that he paid thousands of dollars for high-end prostitutes.
“I look at my time as governor with a sense of what might have been,” Spitzer said, with his expressionless wife Silda standing at his side. “There is much more to be done, and I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people’s work.”
Spitzer says his resignation is effective Monday. He will be replaced by Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who will become New York’s first black governor.
William S. Hein & co., Inc. & the American Association of Law Libraries Are Looking for Proposal Ideas for the AALL Publication Series
William S. Hein & Co., Inc. & the American Association of Law Libraries are Looking for Proposal Ideas for the AALL Publications Series
Do you have an idea for a new publication? The AALL Publications Committee, together with William S. Hein & Co., Inc. welcomes proposals relating to law librarianship for additions to the AALL Publications Series. Publications within the series vary widely in their subject matter, covering traditional technical services, information technology, advances in technology with respect to library functions, and subject-specific manuals, bibliographies, and research guides. To review titles currently available within the series, visit AALL’s web site at http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_series.asp. Instructions on how to submit a proposal can be found at http://www.aallnet.org/committee/publications/proposal.htm.