In Challenge to ILS Industry, OCLC Extends WorldCat Local To Launch New Library System. This is big news. And here I thought merely shifting our local online catalog to WorldCat Local was a big deal.
April 17, 2009 • 1:26 pm 0
Law Professors Seek Injunction Over ‘Sham’ Treatise Supplement
Seems West Publishing put 2 professors’ names to a treatise supplement they didn’t work on. The professors claim that the supplement to their book “was so poorly researched that it will harm their reputations if allowed to remain on library shelves.” Oh, my. Makes me wonder about other (overpriced) West supplements.
(hat tip to Betsy McKenzie)
Filed under: Books, Law School, News
April 1, 2009 • 5:18 pm 0
Nifty blawg resource
The Law Library of Congress has cataloged and archived a bunch of law related blogs (blawgs) on a variety of subjects. [Hat tip, Jahnna Harvey]
Filed under: Cool links, Web 2.0, blog, library 2.0
• 2:37 pm 0
More use of social networks
Hat tip to the Law Librarian Blog for pointing out that Harvard has created a series of short video tutorials on a bunch of legal research topics. Check ‘em out on Harvard’s YouTube Channel.
Filed under: Twitter/Jaiku, Web 2.0, legal research, library 2.0, research guides, social networks, video
• 2:09 pm 0
Truly Amazing
From nextgov: GSA signs deal for agencies to use social networking sites. The mind boggles at the possibilities. Maybe OMB can get American Idol contestants to sing new budget proposals and put them up on YouTube. Or Congress can place scanned versions of bills on Flickr and let the public comment on them that way. Congresspersons are already twittering about proceedings.
Filed under: News, Twitter/Jaiku, Web 2.0, social networks
