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Exploring intellectual rigour2 comments

Greg Whitby wrote 3 days ago: The education landscape is rich with contemporary theory that serves as a solid base for contemporar … more →

Tags: strategic focus, Innovators, Contemporary Schooling, Pedagogy, yyyy, Professional Learning, Research, John Hattie, Ken Robinson

Digital Britain -- UK Government's Strategic Vision

George Wilson wrote 2 weeks ago: The government of the United Kingdom has released an interesting report titled Digital Britain. The … more →

Tags: Government Information, FREE Resources, Foreign Law, ResourceShelf, Digital Britain Report, United Kingdom (UK), British Government, Digital Economy, industrial activism

Be Selfish, Promote Service

Joanne Dillon wrote 2 weeks ago: by Michael Casey & Michael Stephens Library Journal – 15 June 2009 Now, more than ever, we … more →

Google News May Add Wikipedia as a Source1 comment

Erika Wayne wrote 3 weeks ago: Really? According to ReadWriteWeb: “Some users are being shown links to Wikipedia articles abo … more →

Tags: Newspapers, Publishing, Secondary Sources, Wikipedia, Marshall Kirkpatrick, ReadWriteWeb

Presidential Cyberspace Policy Review

George Wilson wrote 1 month ago: Upon taking office, President Obama directed that a 60-day, comprehensive, “clean-slate” review be u … more →

Tags: FREE Resources, Government Information, "clean-slate" review, 60-day, 76-page paper, Comprehensive, Cyberspace Policy Review, President Barack Obama, reliable

Law Library of Congress RSS Feeds

George Wilson wrote 1 month ago: The Law Library of Congress has added RSS (really simple syndication) feeds to its valuable products … more →

Tags: Government Information, Databases, FREE Resources, Legal Research & Writing, Law Library of Congress, RSS - Really Simple Syndication, THOMAS: Daily Digest, Current Legal Topics, Global Legal Monitor

Wake-Up Call re: Deficient Keyword Searching; Need to Use Careful Thought, Quality Control, Testing & Cooperation

George Wilson wrote 1 month ago: Law.com has a New York Law Journal piece from last month reporting on judicial frustration with poor … more →

Tags: Legal Research & Writing, Westlaw, LexisNexis, Google, keyword searching, H. Christopher Boehning, Daniel J. Toal, New York Law Journal, Wake-Up Call on Slipshod Search Terms

Public Access to Congressional Research Service Reports Being Sought

George Wilson wrote 1 month ago: The New York Times reports — in a May 4, 2009 article by Stephanie Strom “Group Seeks Pu … more →

Tags: Government Information, Library Of Congress, Congressional Research Service, New York Times, Stephanie Strom, Center for Democracy and Technology, Nonprofit

The Next Generation of Legal Citations Survey, and Authentication and Link Rot Issues2 comments

Paul Lomio wrote 2 months ago: Link rot is a pet peeve of mine.  A posting I made on June 11, 2008, “Law School Laptop Bans, … more →

Tags: authentication, citation, Computer Assisted Legal Research, Court Opinions, Court Reporting, Data protecton, democracy, Footnotes, FREE Resources

A fun way to connect with the community

Joanne Dillon wrote 2 months ago: by Rana Alakis inCite – 1 April 2009 The article focuses on the Bilingual Storytimes sessions … more →

Local government libraries: community research and survey design checklist

Joanne Dillon wrote 2 months ago: This handbook has been prepared by the Public Library Services, State Library of Queensland to assis … more →

Resources

Joanne Dillon wrote 2 months ago: These are the journals, websites, etc. that I have consulted in my search for good articles. Journal … more →

World Digital Library1 comment

George Wilson wrote 2 months ago: In the World Digital Library, a coalition of national libraries and UNESCO have put some of humanity … more →

Tags: open access, Government Information, FREE Resources, Google, Wikipedia, World Digital Library, UNESCO, humanity's earliest written works, Chinese oracle bones

Recent Paper on Data Breach Notification Law Around the Globe

George Wilson wrote 2 months ago: A new paper on data breach notification law around the globe is available: Alana Maurushat, … more →

Tags: Foreign Law, FREE Resources, Alana Maurushat, Australia, California, Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre (CLPC), Data Breach Notification Law, Docuticker, Globe

National Academies Reports Available Online

George Wilson wrote 2 months ago: Earlier this month the National Academies (composed of the National Academy of Sciences, the Nationa … more →

Tags: open access, Government Information, Databases, FREE Resources, Free, Google, ResourceShelf, National Academies, National Academy of Sciences

The History of CALR, Part 1: More on Thomson West and FLITE Takes Flight3 comments

Paul Lomio wrote 2 months ago: THE HISTORY OF COMPUTER-ASSISTED LEGAL RESEARCH (CALR) _____________________________________________ … more →

Tags: Antitrust, Computer Assisted Legal Research, Copyright, Court Opinions, Databases, Historical Research, History of legal publishing, Information costs, Law librarian author

Thinking about Think Tanks1 comment

George Wilson wrote 2 months ago: The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) has a valuable 2007 report identifying  top think tanks … more →

Tags: FREE Resources, Docuticker, Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), Think Tanks, The Global "Go-To Think Tanks:" The Leading Public Poli

Monopolizing the Law7 comments

Paul Lomio wrote 2 months ago: From a fascinating, must-read brand new book by noted antitrust lawyer Gary Reback, Free the Market: … more →

Tags: Government Information, Databases, legal publishing, Court Reporting, Computer Assisted Legal Research, Information costs, Antitrust, Westlaw, LexisNexis

Handy "Legal Research Series" from Carolina Academic Press

George Wilson wrote 3 months ago: Carolina Academic Press (CAP), a publisher for over 20 years of titles in areas such as anthropology … more →

Tags: legal publishing, Legal Research & Writing, Publishing, California Legal Research, Connecticut Legal Research, Kansas Legal Research, Louisiana Legal Research, New York Legal Research, Ohio Legal Research


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