A recent post from the rips-sis listserv points to a recently published article entitled “The Virtual Tax Library: A Comparison of Five Electronic Tax Research Platforms” by Katherine Pratt, Jennifer Kowal & Daniel Martin of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles …
CS-SIS has recently created a wiki for members to share ideas and information such as use of technology in law libraries, reviews of various tools & gadgets, resources used or produced by law librarians, and more. You'll also find information …
Kudos to LexisNexis for their Associates Serving Public Interests Research (ASPIRE) Program which provides up to 15 months of free legal research services to law school graduates doing work for the public good. Law school graduates can sign up to access certain …
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On Monday, July 27th, CS Member Scott Frey will lead a Roundtable discussion a the AALL Annual Meeting titled “Mashing Up the White House.” We will focus on how libraries are using the technological initiatives by the Obama administration to enhance …
There has been increasing attention to the difficulty of accessing Congressional Research Service Reports. As many of us know, the only way to get these reports is through the efforts of dedicated people who want them to be more …
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There's been a lot of buzz lately about the new search engine computational knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha (which is still in beta but due to debut later this month). The search engine, developed by Stephen Wolfram (a former partical physics prodigy), is “like …
Amazon has announced its new, larger Kindle eBook Reader. Called the Kindle DX, it has a 9.7-inch screen (about a third larger that the current Kindle), costs $489 (pre-orders are being taken for summer delivery) and will hold up to …
The folks at DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE) are committed to making digital preservation materials available to a wide audience. They are creating a series of short animations aimed at the general public that introduce and explain digital preservation problems and solutions. DPE's …
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In case you missed the announcement, this Friday, May 8 from 3:00 to 3:30 pm Eastern time, CALI is hosting a webinar that will introduce you to basic skills necessary to author a new or modify an existing CALI lesson with …
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AALL is hosting a Continuing Professional Education webinar on Libraries and Social Software on Wednesday May 20, 2009 from noon to 1pm Eastern time. The webinar is being given by fellow CSSIS-ie Sarah Glassmeyer, Reference Librarian from the University of Kentucky …
