For week of November 16-20, 2009.
PREPARED BY: Michael Chernicoff
Weighing Life in Prison of Youths Who Didn’t Kill
Book Review: Gay Families and the Courts
TITLE: Gay Families and the Courts SUBTITLE: The Quest for Equal Rights
AUTHOR: Susan Gluck Mezey PUBLICATION DATE: September 2009
PUBLISHER: Bowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
National Information Standards Organization To Develop Recommended Practice for Physical Delivery of Library Materials
Document aims to facilitate library resource sharing* **
November 11, 2009 – Baltimore, MD – The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Voting Members have approved a new work item to develop a Recommended Practice related to the physical delivery of library materials. NISO is pleased to announce that the Working Group roster for this project is now finalized, and work will be commencing with a kick-off call of the group on November 18, 2009. Building on the efforts of three recent projects–Moving Mountains, Rethinking Resource Sharing’s Physical Delivery Committee, and the American Library Association’s ASCLA ICANS’ Physical Delivery Discussion Group-the recommended practice document is proposed to include recommendations for: packaging, shipping codes, labeling, acceptable turn-around time, lost or damaged materials handling, package tracking, ergonomic considerations, statistics, sorting, a set of elements to be used for comparison purposes to determine costs,linking of regional and local library carriers, and international delivery.
“A recent study found that 77% of academic libraries participate in state or provincial resource sharing networks above and beyond the 10,000,000 interlibrary loan (ILL) transactions that OCLC annually processes,” Valerie Horton, Executive Director, Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC), who proposed the project and will be serving as co-chair, explained. “The increased volume and costs of library delivery is creating a demand for more information about how to run efficient and effective delivery operations.” Diana Sachs-Silveira, Virtual Reference Manager, Tampa Bay Library Consortium, will be co-chairing the group with Ms. Horton.
CLLB: Information Security Newsletter. Volume 2 Number 11 November 2009.
Volume 2 Number 11 November 2009
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The Jury Expert
Volume 21 Issue 6 November 2009.
Table of Contents
Sex and Race in the Courtroom: Shifting Gender-Role Attitudes in a Changing World
ABA Jurimetrics Journal Goes Electronic
Jurimetrics, The Journal of Law, Science and Technology (ISBN 0897-1277), published quarterly, is the journal of the American Bar Association, Section of Seience & Technology law and the Center for Study of Law, Science and Technology of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. It was first published in 1959 under the leadership of Layman Allen as Modern Uses of Logic in Law (MULL). A former name, Jurimetrics Journal, was adopted in 1966. The current name was adopted in 1978. Until now Jurimetrics has been published and distributed in hard copy. Soon ( beginning with the Winter 2010 issue) Jurimetrics will be electronic only.
According to the American Bar Association, here is how this works: Subscribers will receive an e-mail message letting them know when a new issue is available. That e-mail will include a link to a Web site where subscribers can lood at all of the abstracts and then download-or print out-any of the articles they want to read in PDF format.
The electronic version will be fully searchable, so subscribers can scan Jurimetrics for topics that are of interest. According to ABA this enhanced format also means that subscribers can be provided with more articles, “packed with more information–and get them to you much faster.”
AALL Maryland Authentication Working Group and Maryland Register Print Discontinuation
The Maryland Authentication Working Group and the print discontinuation of the Maryland Register are both discussed in the following e-mail from Joan M Bellistri, a member of the Working Group:
The AALL Maryland Authentication Working Group has been created. Ideally, this working goup would have been formed before there were any issues in Maryland but we now have the immediate issue of the conversion of the Maryland Register to pdf distribution only. The Working Group is composed of librarians from court, academic and firm libraries and consists of Joanne Colvin, President of LLAM, Janet Camillo, Chair CMCLLD, Pat Behles, Carol Mundorf, Andy Zimmerman, Steve Anderson and myself. We hope to be adding members from the public library government docs community and the academic libraries and the Maryland State Bar Association. The ultimate purpose of the group would be to monitor
Maryland’s legal resources in terms of e-life cycle management (authentication, permanent public access and preservation) and work to educate the appropriate officials about the importance of these issues through the creation of a policy paper as a follow up to the
ABA Journal Weekly Newsletter. August 13, 2009.
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CLLB: Criminal Justice Abstracts. November 13, 2009.
For week ending November 13, 2009.
PREPARED BY: Michael Chernicoff
Looser Rules on Sentencing Stir Concerns About Equity
Judge Finds Murder Defendant Jailed 18 Years to be Innocent
An Acting Supreme Court Justice in Manhattan dismissed a 1991 murder indictment “with prejudice” yesterday, finding an inmate jailed 18 years to be “actually innocent”.
Justice John A. Cataldo found that the conviction of Fernando Bermudez to have been undermined by flawed identification procedures and the submission of testimony that the prosecution should have been known to be false.
Mr. Bermudez remains in jail for now because of a separate federal drug sale convicrtion that carried a 27 month sentence.