Law Librarian Blog
Is devoted to issues related to law libraries, including digital preservation and documentation. The blog covers general news and provides resources for practicing law librarians and those interested in legal research.
Author: Joe Hodnicki, associate director for library operations at the University of Cincinnati Law Library, and Ron Jones, the Electronic Resources & Services Librarian at the University of Cincinnati Law Library, edit the Law Librarian Blog. Both are also listed as contributing editors to Law X.0. Hodnicki is also on the board of advisers for Law School Innovation.
Blawg Related Categories: Law Libraries • University of Cincinnati • Law Professor • Librarian
Recent Posts from Law Librarian Blog
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Grade "Reform" in a Down Labor Market: Get Your Free 0.1 Point at USC Law
Above the Law is reporting that USC Law is proposing to tweak the School's grading curve by setting the average grade in each first-year course at 3.3 rather than at 3.2. The effect of this…
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Voting Underway for the 2008 ABA Journal Blawg 100
The editors of the ABA Journal have selected 100 law blogs for the Journal's second annual blog award contest. Voting in ten categories ends Jan. 2, 2009. Yes, it is a popularity contest but this…
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Google: The Open Access Ideal and Compliance with Foreign Laws
In Google’s Gatekeepers, a New York Times Magazine feature article, Jeffrey Rosen (George Washington) examines Google's attempts to provide open access to online content while complying with the demands of governments interested in censoring that…
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First Books on Heller Published
This summer the Supreme Court had its first opportunity in seven decades to decide a question at the heart of one of America's most impassioned debates: Do Americans have the right to possess guns? Two…
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Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews
Reviews published in the November 17th, 2008 issue of InSITE: Audiovisual Library of International Law FARAdb: Foreign Agent Registration Act Database Nuremberg Trials and Their Legacy Women's Environment & Development Organization
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December Issue of AALL Spectrum Online
The December issue of AALL Spectrum is available online. This month’s articles feature: how to use online collaborative tools for long-distance teamwork a call for photographers for the 2009 Day in the Life photo contest…
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Can Your Blog Give Your Boss Clues to What Projects Should Be Assigned to You?
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment is a personality test employers use as a means to sort out the workforce into productive assignments best suited to individual strengths and weaknesses. It has also been used in…
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Is It a Federal Crime to Violate a Web Site's TOS?
In light of the recent verdict in the Lori Drew case, one of Drew's attorneys, Orin Kerr has established new Terms of Use for the Volokh Conspiracy, where he blogs. Of course merely viewing the…
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Court Grants Concord Law Student Permission to Take Massachusetts Bar Exam
In Mitchell v. Board of Bar Examiners, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that Ross E. Mitchell is entitled to a waiver of the state's rule that bar exam applicants must be graduates of accredited…
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Professional Reading: Problems with Current English-Spanish Legal Dictionaries
R. De Groot (University of Maastricht) and Conrad Van Laer (University of Maastricht) has deposited The Quality of Legal Dictionaries: An Assessment in SSRN. From the abstract: "In this article, the quality of the different…