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(19 Jun) Cornell's Legal Information Institute (www.law.cornell.edu) founder and director Tom Bruce will give a brief talk at the Philadelphia Association of Paralegals luncheon on Tuesday, July 8th (1:00 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on 1800 Market Street). The luncheon is open to non-members at a cost of $33 (register by July 1 with Kim Bittinger at KLaskowski [at] Schnader.com). You can also catch up with Tom and some of the LII crew later that night at an informal get-together from 5:00 - 8:00 at Misconduct-Tavern at 1511 Locust Street www.misconduct-tavern.com).
'Ten tunes in ten minutes: Why the Legal Information Institute is more than you think, less than it could be, and about all we can handle.'
David Byrne once said that singing is just a trick to get people to listen to music. Many people know the LII as the first free legal Web site and a landmark source for the US Code, the decisions of the Supreme Court, the LIIBULLETIN (analysis of Supreme Court cases), WEX (commentaries and secondary materials), and the American Legal Ethics Library. But all the LII's great free stuff may just be a trick to get people to listen to a song about legal information itself and the many ways it's used by lawyers, by non-lawyer professionals, and by the general public. Tom will talk about the behind-the-scenes work in technology, research and policy that makes the LII's information the tremendous resource it is. Fortunately, he will not sing.
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(20 Jun) I've been following developments regarding a relatively new legal information product called Bloomberg Law. While on the one hand it seems to be a product with great potential and one law librarians should get to know, it's dependent on proprietary software, which is extremely old-school for an information service. And then there is the rather hefty price tag listed in the referenced article as $1800 per subscription per desktop.
Nina Platt's analysis and advice is right on. "The reality is that this is a service that has some power behind it and the lawyers in your firms will want to look at it. My advice to law firm librarians would be, to be proactive. Invite Bloomberg in for a visit."
"My advice to Bloomberg would be, move to a web-based solution. The associates and librarians starting at law firms today who will be doing the largest part of the research and be partners some day (fingers crossed), have grown up with the Internet. The lawyers and librarians who have worked in law firms for some time, have made the switch to using the Internet for research."
SOURCE: About Bloomberg Law
(Jun 2008) Christine Hamilton-Pennell, whose company provides training, consulting and research to communities developing local entrepreneurship support initiatives, outlines the competitive research needs of small business owners. She discusses strategies and resources for finding competitors, conducting market research and discovering industry trends.
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(17 Jun) Karen Blakeman shares the top search tips of attendees at her advanced workshop, Google and Beyond.
RELATED: Web Searching with Advanced Commands
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(Seeking out facts, and even basic information on a topic, is relatively easy. Enter 2 or 3 relevant keywords at your favorite search engine. But going beyond the basic, or conducting investigative research, often means using advanced search commands, not to mention additional or more targeted finding tools. This article examines the first issue - using advanced search commands to manipulate or improve search results.)
(17 Jun) How do we bridge the gap between students' research competence and what's required of a modern college graduate? "In an effort to nudge curriculums in the direction of incorporating research methodology into the fabric of courses themselves, two universities are experimenting with voluntary programs that encourage cooperation between faculty and research specialists to develop assignments that will serve as a hands-on and collaborative introduction to the relevant skills and practices."
(24 Jun) Have you ever wanted to browse books at Amazon? For instance, view a shelf of all available books on history, or some other topic? A Canadian company is experimenting with a tool, called Zoomii, which will let you do just that.
It will require some improvement before it really takes off. Currently, there are too few categories and none are specific. But what if you merged the strengths of a library catalog (subject headings, author and title indexes) with Zoomii, and then added user-generated tags? Zoomii is perhaps giving us a glimpse into the future of how library catalogs should work.
(17 Jun) BRB Publications announces the availability of a new handbook, The Safe Hiring Audit. Written by Les Rosen and Michael Sankey, the handbook provides a blueprint to evaluate and improve a company's hiring procedures.
(16 Jun) The University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication has suspended publication of OJR (Online Journalism Review).
JURIS Database, The: Non-profit organization, Public.Resource.Org, whose mission is to make all court cases available online for free, now offers the content of the former FLITE database. FLITE, launched by the Judge Advocate General's (JAG Corps) JAG Corps, later changed hands and became the Department of Justice's JURIS database.
JURIS consists of a virtual federal law library. "The general legal data base currently includes the full text of over 225,000 federal cases, including headnotes, as well as headnotes from over 475,000 state court cases. The data base also contains a large number of statutory, regulatory, and administrative files." See the database contents here.
While the contents note referenced above indicates that the database is frequently updated, it appears to be current through 1992 or 1993, depending on the section. You may browse the database directory or download portions or the whole database. There is no search feature. (et)
LexMonitor: Developed by LexBlog, a company that provides technical and content services for law blogs, LexMonitor collocates feeds from law blogs around the Internet. It arranges them into subject categories to facilitate monitoring multiple feeds on a common topic. LexMonitor also enables tracking blogs on a subject via RSS feed.
Review the tabs at the top of the home page for options that let you browse by blog author, subject or tag. All the new site lacks is a search engine, but perhaps that's in the plans for a future version. (et)
Research News Archive
12 June 2008
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