Justia Blawg Search

Justia Launches Free Federal District Court Filings Database Search

Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide, completely updated and revised by Sabrina I. Pacifici

Google Librarian Central

International Association of Law Libraries (IALL), International Calendar of Upcoming Events, 2007-2015.

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush, GPO Access.

Legal Research Engine, Cornell University Law Library.

WikiMatrix: "A tool to compare the features of various popular wiki engines in comfortable side-by-side tables."

Wikipedia Search with LuMriX - "Search the world's largest (web-) encyclopedia.."

Anglo-American Legal Tradition Project Launches Website

10 Best Intranets of 2007 (Jacob Nielsen's AlertBox, January 15, 2007)

WikiLex is an on-line public, community maintained legal resource specifically geared for the United States legal market

Selected Internet Librarian 2006: Presentation Links

Library Workflow Redesign: Six Case Studies, by Marilyn Mitchell, editor, January 2007. 81 pp.

Ask a Librarian (Library of Congress), online reference service

M.G. Gallagher Law Library, Legal Research Guides, Updated February 2, 2007

The Government Domain: Testing the THOMAS Beta

Secrecy Report Card 2006: Indicators of Secrecy in the Federal Government, 2006 by the OpentheGovernment.org

Librarians in the Movies - An Annotated Filmography, updated February 1, 2007

Where Can I Donate or Recycle My Old Computer and Other Electronic Products?

State and Federal E-Government in the United States, 2006

The Partnership - Education Institute Course Calendar

Associations

• Computing Services Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries (CS-SIS) Blawgs Committee
• 2007 AALL Annual Meeting
• American Association of Law Libraries
• AALLNET AALL Salary Survey (Online Edition) - members only
• AALL Chapters
• Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP)
• Special Libraries Association
• Special Libraries Association DC Chapter
• American Library Association
• American Bar Association
• Law Librarians' Society of Washington, DC

Blogs, RSS and Wikis:  Legal, Library & Technology Related News and Resources

• beSpacific - Accurate, focused law and technology news since 2002. Emphasis on current awareness monitoring and tracking of primary resources from state and federal government, corporations, academic institutions, foundations and think tanks. Free opt-in email update, and a searchable database of over 12,000 postings, updated daily. beSpacific received the 2006 AALL/West Excellence in Marketing Award for Best Use of Technology.
• Law Library Blogs and Blogs by Law Librarians or Law Library Associations
• WikiMatrix: "A tool to compare the features of various popular wiki engines in comfortable side-by-side tables."
• Library and Information Science Wiki: "LISWiki was established to give the library community a chance to explore the usefulness of Wikis."
• RSS Specifications and RSS Feeds
• What Is RSS? RSS Explained.
• The RSS 3 Version Homepage
• A blog software comparison chart, updated May 18, 2006.
• Computing Services Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries (CS-SIS) Blawgs Committee
• What Is RSS? RSS Explained.
• Library and Information Science Wiki: "LISWiki was established to give the library community a chance to explore the usefulness of Wikis."
• The Learning Circuits Blog - "This blog is dedicated to sharing ideas and opinions about the state of learning and technology."
• Plogress.com - Pick a state or territory and this free blog allows users to track legislation introducted/sponsored by respective representatives, as well as roll call votes. The data is from THOMAS, and the solo author includes topical polls, and RSS feeds.
• Guide to U.S. Government RSS Library
• Getting Started With RSS
• FDA's RSS News Feeds
• BlogBib - An Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging, with a Focus on Library/Librarian Blogs, updated January 2007
• Getting Started With RSS
• Blawg Republic "is a real-time search engine that monitors the legal blogging community every hour."
• Litblog Co-op, "Uniting the leading literary weblogs for the purpose of drawing attention to the best of contemporary fiction, authors and presses that are struggling to be noticed in a flooded marketplace."
• Top 100 Most-Subscribed-To RSS Feeds
• University of Alberta Libraries, New Books by Call Number (with their  respective RSS feeds)
• InhouseBlog - News for Inhouse Lawyers - informing inhouse counsel since 2005
• NewslettersByRSS� - "allows newsletter publishers to continue to deliver their newsletters by email while trying out a new delivery vehicle - RSS technology."
• Ethics Code For Bloggers - "CyberJournalist.net has created a model Bloggers' Code of Ethics, by modifying the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics for the Weblog world. CyberJournalist.net follows this code and urges other Weblogs to as well."
• Law Tech Guru Blog - Jeff Beard provides a range of well written and documented content on issues that include legal marketing, legal technology, mobile tech and gadgets, and tips to maximize successful blogging.
• beSpacific - Current awareness monitoring blog, with free weekday updates online and via an HTML e-mail subscription, focused on law, library and legal research related tech resources and news. Provides an extensively and continuously updated database of links to primary documents on issues pertaining to privacy, copyright, FOIA, e-government, government documents, state and federal tech related legislation, KM, ID theft, search engines, blogs, RSS, and more.
• Blawg - "Your Source for Legal Blogs, Podcasts & News Feeds"
• Daily Rotation - "Quick loading headlines from 300+ tech sites."
• JURIST's Paper Chase - University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
• Library Weblogs - Maintained by Peter Scott, with links to blogs around the world, including as available, to their respective RSS feeds.

Recycling and E-Waste

• Federal Gov't Creates Program to Recycle Old Computers - "Ecycling" Government Computers Under Recycling Electronics and Asset Disposition Services: "For the first time, EPA is awarding contracts to help the entire federal government recycle or properly dispose of computers and other electronic equipment. The new program will prevent hazardous substances inside these items from entering landfills. For example, each computer monitor contains six pounds of lead. All of this equipment contains components that can be reused in the current marketplace or recycled.
• Industry Launches Initiative to Address E-Waste: Learn how to safely dispose of, donate, sell or reuse PCs and tech gadgets, from this new website, the Rethink Initiative, co-sponsored by eBay, Intel and other industry leaders.
• EPA Site On Recycling E-Waste and other beSpacific postings on e-waste and recyling efforts on the local, state federal and corporate level
• GreenDisk
• Jadcore

Recent Conferences, Conventions & Programs and Presentation Links

• International Legal Research Tutorial - This is a collaborative project between Duke University School of Law and University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
• Internet Librarian 2006: Presentation Links
• AALL 2006 Annual Meeting Handout Materials Collection
• ABA TECHSHOW� 60 Sites in 60 Minutes Hall-Of-Fame
• Computers in Libraries 2006 Presentation Links
• CALI ^� The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction
• Information Today conferences

Copyright, Licensing and Intellectual Property

• Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity - From Booklist: "Lessig looks at the disturbing legal and commercial trends that threaten to curb the incredible creative potential of the Internet."
• iCopyright
• Liblicense - Licensing Digital Information: A Resource for Librarians - Includes licensing vocabulary, a bibliography, archives of a discussion group on the topic, and links to actual publisher licenses.

Virtual Reference

• Ten Steps to Wireless Internet Access in Your Library
• The Future of Online Reference - Interview with Patrick Spain, CEO of Alacritude
• "AskUsNow! is a 24/7 live online interactive service. It uses the expertise of librarians to provide answers to questions, research guidance, and help navigating the Internet."  Sponsored by the Maryland Libraries.
• The Teaching Librarian - Digital Reference
• USA.gov Live Chat reference service
• The Virtual Reference Desk Project "is a project dedicated to the advancement of digital reference and the successful creation and operation of human-mediated, Internet-based information services. VRD is sponsored by the United States Department of Education
• WebJunction's Focus on Virtual Reference.

Internet Research

Company Research

• Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide, completely updated and revised by Sabrina I. Pacifici
• Justia Free Sixty: 60 Essential Free Law Firm Competitive Intelligence Resources
• Got Competitive Intelligence? Tips, tools and techniques for the savvy marketer - Donna F. Cavallini and Sabrina I. Pacifici detail how to use a wide range of reliable free and fee-based sites and services to find and profile companies and people, for client/prospect monitoring, to follow market trends, and to track law firms and the legal industry.
• Competitive Intelligence (CI) Resources for the Legal Community
• How Competitive is Your Law Firm? Competitive Intelligence for the Legal Industry
• The Internet and Company Research
• Finding People Resources and Sites, by Marcus P. Zillman

Search Strategies

• Beyond Google and Yahoo, by Sabrina I. Pacifici and Tom Mighell
• Beyond Google and Yahoo: New, Nifty Search Engines to Optimize Your Research, by Barbara Fullerton and Sabrina I. Pacifici
• Gumshoe Librarian 2006, by Barbara Fullerton and Sabrina I. Pacifici
• Leveraging Blogs, RSS, News Alerts and Different Search Engines to Expand Your Research, by Sabrina I. Pacifici
• Search Engine Land - news about search engines and search marketing
• Search Engine Watch
• Search Engines - Info by Search Engine Guide - "Search engine news from across the Internet is posted each day. Includes a searchable archive of over 4600 articles."

Evaluating Website Quality

• Weblog Usability: The Top Ten Design Mistakes

• Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools
• Getting It Right: Verifying Sources on the Net, by Sabrina I. Pacifici
• The Lawyer's Guide to Internet Research.
• useit.com - Jacob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design

Internet Resources For Researchers

• ABA's Site-ation Archives - "...monthly e-newsletter highlighting new or useful Web sites of interest to attorneys and other legal professionals."
• The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) - This advocacy group provides readers with a wealth of primary documents, obtained through FOIA requests, on privacy issues that range from government and commercials data mining activities to library filtering.
• InSITE - "a current awareness service of Cornell Law Library, InSITE highlights selected law-related Web sites in two ways: as an annotated publication issued electronically and in print; and as a keyword-searchable database"
• Law Librarian Resource Center, from Thomson West, What's New for Law Librarians, and Resources that include links to Librarian Relations Staff, CLE, free newsletters, conferences and events.
• LexisNexis InfoPro
• Librarian's Index to the Internet
• OMB Watch - A bi-weekly online newsletter that focuses on regulatory matters, the federal government expenditures, and government accountability.
• Research Buzz
• The Scout Report - Since 1994, the Scout Project has focused on developing better tools and services for finding, filtering, and presenting online information and metadata.

Internet Use Policies

• Sitemaps and Site Indexes: What They Are and Why You Should Have Them - "Sitemaps and site indexes are forms of supplemental navigation. They give users a way to navigate a site without having to use the global navigation. By providing a way to visualize and understand the layout and structure of the site, a sitemap can help a lost or confused user find her way. Sitemaps are more widely implemented than site indexes, but both have their place and fulfill a unique information need."
• Computer Law Institute's Company E-mail Policy - Assemble a Policy
• E-Policy: How to Develop Computer, E-Policy, and Internet Guidelines to Protect Your Company and Its Assets, by Michael R. Overly.
• Internet Use Policies - ALA
• Microsoft - Use the Internet Safely
• Ten tips for implementing an acceptable Internet use policy

Job Sites and Resources

• Legal Recruiters for Law Librarians (AALL)
• Bibliography of Employment Resources for Law Librarians, by Gloria Miccioli, May 2005.
• Librarians Reference These Sites When Seeking Work (WSJ, free content)
• JinFo::Jobs in Info - from FreePint, for UK, France and Germany.
• craigslist - choose your city, and then job category.
• jobs.Feedster.com "provides the largest index of job related feeds on the web. Type in the job you want and the location and let Feedster do the rest."
• Lisjobs.com - Jobs for Librarians and Information Professionals.  Also provides an RSS feed.
• Guide to Employment Resources, by Marcus P. Zillman
• FindLaw for Legal Professionals
• Law.com's Career Center - Includes career-related articles and legal classifieds for attorney and other law-related jobs.
• Yahoo! Hot Jobs

Law Firm Libraries on the Web

• Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn LLP - Library

Legal Research

• Commonwealth Legal Information Institute:  467 databases from 52 Commonwealth and common law countries and territories in collaboration with members of the Free Access to Law Movement
• Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia
• Justia Launches U.S. Supreme Court Cases & Opinions Beta
• The National Clearinghouse for Science Technology and the Law at Stetson University College of Law
• From the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, DC, United States Statutes and the United States Code: Historical Outlines, Notes, Lists, Tables, and Sources, revised June 2006, Compiled by Richard J. McKinney.
• European and Comparative Private Law Homepage - University of Girona (Catalonia, Spain)
• European Private Law, University of Southampton
• Free case law online via All Law
• Internet and Online Sources of U.S. Legislative and Regulatory Information (PDF).
• Most-Cited American Legal Periodicals, U.S. and Selected non-U.S. - Compiled by John Doyle.
• State and Federal Legislation, Guide to Resources and Links - LLRX.com
• State Legislative History Research Guides and State Legislatures on the Web - Indiana University School of Law
• State Legislatures, State Laws and State Regulations - Website Links and Telephone Numbers, Law Librarians' Society of Washington, DC

Legal Technology Presentations

• ABA TechShow
• ABA elawyering task force
• MicroLaw.com - Compendium of  free online legal technology CLE material authored by Ross Kodner.

Library Automation Vendors

• EOS International (Datatrek)
• Inmagic
• Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
• MITINET/marc Software
• OCLC
• ResourceMate 2.0
• Right On Programs Home Page
• SIRSIDynx

Library Catalogs

• Google Book Search
• Libdex: "Libdex is a worldwide directory of library homepages, web-based OPACs,  Friends of the Library pages, and  library e-commerce affiliate links."
• MELVYL - The Catalog of the University of California Libraries
• UTNetCat - "Use UTNetCAT to locate any of eight million items, including books, journals, other materials and selected Web resources, from the University of Texas at Austin."
• Windows Live Book Search
• WorldCat [OCLC - Home]

Library & Law Related Internet Discussion Lists

Subscription Information

• Library-Oriented Lists and Electronic Serials
• LLRX Legal Mailing List Manager - Provides instructions on how to subscribe to many law librarian, legal and Internet-related discussion lists.
• Law Lists
• Web4Lib Discussion List - An electronic discussion for library-based World-Wide Web managers.

Archives, FAQs & Web Pages

• InSITE - a mailing list consisting of annotated lists of law-related Internet sites, brought to you by the librarians at the Cornell Law Library.
• The TechnoLawyer: "TechnoLawyer Newsletters, a network of free, critically-acclaimed e-mail newsletters for legal professionals; and (2) TechnoLawyer Archive, a searchable Web-based repository of all TechnoLawyer content since January 1997."

Law-Lib (See also general archives above)

• Law-Lib Archives
• Law-Lib Listserv FAQ by Christopher Noe from UC Davis.

Others

• The Public-Access Computer Systems Forum (PACS-L) is a mailing list that deals with end-user computer systems in libraries.

Library-Related Websites & Resources

• Ten Steps to Wireless Internet Access in Your Library
• The Future of the Book, Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. - 7/10/2005
• Conservation OnLine - "A full text library of conservation information, covering a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials."
• Informed Librarian Online
• Internet Library for Librarians - A portal to assist librarians in locating Internet resources. Links are arranged in under main categories that include Ready Reference, Librarianship, and Accessories.
• Law Library Collection Development Policies -  A collective effort by law librarians in many countries to create a virtual collection of collection development policy documents for law libraries.
• LEXIS-NEXIS Website for Information Professionals - Includes a monthly column on professional and product issues, research tips, database updates, etc.
• Librarians in the Movies - An Annotated Filmography - "This filmography is an ongoing attempt to expand our collective memory, to find a more comprehensive and defensible basis for our acceptance or rejection of the "typical movie librarian" -- whatever we think he or she is. It lists over 400 Hollywood (and a few foreign) productions that in some significant or memorable way include a library or librarian."
• Librarians' Resource Centre - From Special Libraries Association (SLA Toronto Chapter), this site provides a searchable database as well as the ability to quickly search topical categories (ready reference, searching the Internet, business & finance, professional development, intranet development, dictionaries, library & information science topics, and more).
• The Librarian's Yellow Pages on the Web - Easy-to-use buyer's guide created by librarians for librarians.
• Library Terms that Users Understand - It's not easy to figure out the best terms to use for naming library functions on an Intranet or Internet. The purpose of this site is to help library web developers decide how to label key resources and services in such a way that most users can understand them well enough to make productive choices. Includes results of various usability tests.
• LibraryLand: Resources for Librarians - Links to all things library-related including discussion lists, organizations, automation vendors, etc.
• LISNews.com - Library and information science news updated daily.
• Thomson-West Law Librarians Community

Marketing the Law Firm

• Legal SEO and Marketing Blog - Legal Search Engine Optimization and Marketing for Law Firms
• Video Conferencing Events
• Guide to Legal Marketing Blogs
• beSpacific - postings on marketing issues
• Findlaw's Lawyer Marketing
• Internet Marketing Attorney
• Law Practice Magazine
• Legal Marketing Association
• LLRX Resource Center on Legal Marketing - for librarians and lawyers

Marketing the Library

• Justia.Net - FREE Web sites for Lawyers & Law Firms - Tim Stanley, co-founder of FindLaw, and its former CTO after the site's purchase by Thomson West, has launched the beta version of an incredible new service to the legal community. With a range of features and price points (from free to a choice of competitive pricing options) not currently available in the market, Tim and his expert team have laid down the gauntlet with this next generation website design service, targeted to serve the community inclusive of solos through large firms.
• The Branding Resource: A product of the Advertising & Marketing Division, Special Libraries Association
• MLS: Marketing Library Services (from Information Today, subscription req'd)

MCLE Related Sites

• ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Legal Education Home Page
• Continuing Legal Education - New York State
• Law.com CLE Center
• MCLE - State Bar of California
• Practicing Law Institute
• Table of MCLE State Requirements
• West LegalEd Center

Miscellaneous

• How Much Information? - This 2003 study was produced by faculty and students at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley.
• Infosources Publishing Search LawTRIO - "LawTRIO is a fully searchable database of over 7,500 legal titles combined from three of our print directories. The titles come in three formats: looseleaf, newsletter, and CD-ROM."
• Internet Case Digest from Perkins Coie, "is a compilation of cases designed to bookmark, collate and monitor important developments in Internet law, including cases that have significant implications for Internet legal issues even if they are not directly related to the Internet."
• Internet Tools For Lawyers: Helping Legal Professionals Use the Web
• pdaJD.com - E-commerce site on handhelds, software and accessories.
• The Social Life of Legal Information: First Impressions, by Paul Duguid
• Study Reveals Government Websites Are Unusable To A Growing Number Of Californians

Pathfinders and Research Guides

• E.B. Williams Library Research Guides - From Georgetown University - The guides address: Foundations of Legal Research, Topical Research, Non-Legal Research, Tips and Advice, International and Foreign Research, Interdisciplinary Studies, and State Research.
• LLRX.com

Public Domain Citation

• AALL Citation Formats Committee
• ABA Official Citation Resolutions

Publications/Newsletters

• ABA's Law Practice Management: Marketing, Management, Technology, Finance
• Alert Publications - Legal Information Alert ($)
• Biblio Tech Review - information industry news and technologies
• Cites & Insights - Crawford at Large (pdf only)
• E-Content Magazine $
• Law Office Computing - Web site includes software reviews (subscription only). $
• Library Journal $
• Online ($)
• Searcher Magazine ($)
• TechnoLawyer - reg. req'd
• Technolawyer Archive - "A searchable Web-based repository of all TechnoLawyer newsletters and posts since January 1997, including some material never distributed via e-mail. Technolawyer provides extensive legal technology and practice management resources. Requires subscription."

Public Records

• BRB's free resource center of links to public records
• Craig Ball's Sampler of Informal Discovery Links - People finders, corporate/association links, medical resources, products liability, and more.
• Finding People Records and Sites on the Internet
• NETROnline - "Information Portal to official state web sites, and those Tax Assessors' and Recorders' offices that have developed web sites for the retrieval of available public records over the internet.
• Pretrieve - free public record search engine
• Public Record Finder.com
• Public Record Retriever Network - Links to over 2,000 county, state and federal (court) URL's where you can access public record information for free.
• Search Systems - Over 38,000 free and fee-based searchable public records databases.

Publishers & Books Online

Publishers

• Bureau of National Affairs
• A Legal Publishers List: Corporate Affiliations of Legal Publishers - "The publishers in the Legal Publishers List are divided into five groups, which are on five separate web pages: Thomson, Reed Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, Other Publisher with Subsidiaries, and Independent Publishers."
• CrivNews - Announcements from legal publishers.
• LexisNexis
• West Thomson

Books Online

• Abebooks - "The world's largest online marketplace for used, rare, and out-of-print books."
• Amazon - E-commerce site providing searchable database ( author, subject and keyword) of books on all topics/subjects.
• BookFinder.com - A source for out-of-print and hard to find books.
• Half.com
• The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
• Law Book Network - Buy and sell law books on the web.
• Wiley - Books on computing, reference, business and more.

Miscellaneous

• 75 Years of IRS Criminal Investigation History
• Financial disclosure reports for all Supreme Court Justices and Appellate Court federal judges
• CRIVPage - The Committee on Relations with Information Vendors - Check here for CRIVAlerts and CRIVGrams relating to the legal publishing industry.
• Divested Titles List from CRIV - "CRIV has compiled a consolidated list of these divested titles with a goal of providing a quick reference for those seeking to determine if a particular title is still being published, and if so, by whom."
• Master of Disaster - The Beginner's Disaster Planning Site for Libraries, Businesses and Institutions
• Sample Letters to Law Library Vendors - "CRIV has drawn up a collection of sample letters which law librarians can use as a guide for their own correspondence with publishers. The language can be used verbatim, or tailored to fit specific circumstances. Often a streamlined version of these letters will produce the desired result."

Space Planning Software

• BiblioPlan - Relocation software for libraries.
• Building Blocks for Planning Functional Library Space

Technical Services & Cataloging Tools

• Cataloguer's Toolbox
• Cataloging Internet Resources: A Manual and Practical Guide
• Library of Congress Authorities - provides access to LC authority data via the Web. Name, subject, and title authority records, (including series authority records) are available to search, display, and download.
• LibraryTools.com - LC Easy is an instructional tool on LC call number construction. Also see the companion product, DeweyEasy.
• ShelveIt - A product to help train staff to shelve properly.
• University of San Francisco Law Library - Cataloging Manual

Training the Trainers - Resources

• ASTD Training & Development - A publication of the American Society of Training and Development.  Some articles are available in full-text at this site.
• Nettrain Listserv Archives
• Presentations Magazine

Website Design

• Accessibility implications of digital rights management
• Boxes and Arrows
• Building Accessible Websites
• useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's site on usability and web design.
• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Home Page  - More information on making the web accessible to those with disabilities.