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22 Jan 2013, 12:02 pm
In the U.S. the public library movement took off earlier. [read post]
4 Sep 2013, 4:40 pm
This means library patrons are cut off from whole swaths of the World Wide Web, hampering their access to knowledge. [read post]
3 Oct 2019, 8:39 pm
The DDC might be the world’s most widely used library classification system, but like the man himself, it’s not without controversy. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 3:38 pm
“In concert with the American Library Association national conference in Orlando, Florida, this week, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and FamilySearch International, the largest genealogy organization in the world, have signed an agreement that will expand access to FamilySearch.org’s growing free digital historical book collection to DPLA’s broad audience of users including genealogists, researchers, family historians,… [read post]
1 Sep 2015, 11:00 am
The exhibit (the logo for which appears above), is presented by the American Bar Association in partnership with the Library of Congress and its Law Library.] [read post]
20 Feb 2014, 10:00 am
Research in the New York Public Library on the first minimum wage, legislated in Victoria, Australia, in 1896, convinced historian Marilyn Lake that a world history approach was necessary, one that located this experiment in “state socialism” in the context of both the longue duree of imperial labor relations and encounters between the subjects of the British and Chinese empires in the new world of urban Melbourne. [read post]
6 Mar 2022, 5:10 pm
A Public Library Association study released in September 2021 provides a current picture of how libraries serve as digital equity hubs. [read post]
9 Sep 2010, 12:11 am
Minow: Help me out here.Wilkin: For the user in the U.S. or really for anybody in the world, we deem U.S. works pre-1923 as being in the Public Domain. [read post]
17 Dec 2015, 9:27 am
”The new A-130 centralizes a wide range of policy updates on acquisitions, cybersecurity, information governance, records management, open data, and privacy, replaces a federated procurement approach with more directed guidance and ensured timeliness in IT acquisitions, delineates the responsibilities of various departments when it comes to securing our federal systems, and mandates that government data that is public facing be accessible, discoverable and of usable quality.While the… [read post]
16 Sep 2015, 8:53 am
Take a look at what our neighbors north of the border at Slaw have to say about the pains and gains of loose-leaf publications in a world that's becoming increasingly digital:Louis Mirando starts out the conversation with his keen observation that although the keynote speakers at the Canadian Association of Law Libraries in May all had their own unique vision about "The Future of Legal Publishing", they all converged at one particular place:… [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 9:18 am
The library is now preparing to provide free, public wireless internet access to those library users with appropriately equipped laptop computers and other devices. [read post]
9 Sep 2010, 1:54 pm
In the United States, Germain said, the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) has been an effective advocate for authentic digital law at the state and federal levels. [read post]
18 Feb 2019, 3:50 pm
"The Law Library of Congress is the world’s largest law library, with a collection of over 2.65 million volumes from all ages of history and virtually every jurisdiction in the world. [read post]
10 Nov 2022, 1:38 pm
Our ability to help people navigate the information – to understand it, rather than just browse and search it – is our strength So succinctly states the big role law libraries play, espcially in this day where a computer, iPad or iPhone is a printing press to publish openly avaluable legal insight and commentary.I remember my amazement as a kid in the small town local library where the periodical guide to literature could connect me to the world – but… [read post]
13 Feb 2017, 5:04 pm
On behalf of three national library associations, EFF today urged a federal appeals court for the second time to protect librarians’ and students’ rights to make fair use of excerpts from academic books and research. [read post]
16 Dec 2013, 8:40 am
Also making the social media news last week was the British Library releasing more than 300 years' of images into the public domain via Flickr. [read post]
1 Jun 2009, 5:34 am
in Spectrum, the publication of the American Association of Law Libraries. [read post]
2 Dec 2008, 6:06 pm
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) monthly publication AALL Spectrum has an excellent “quick-start” guide to international legal research — including a convenient list of online and hard-copy resources in this month’s issue (vol. 13, no. 13, Dec. 2008): The Wide World of Laws: A Quick-Start Guide to International Legal Research by Christopher C. [read post]
22 Jul 2009, 9:21 am
Marx is also a librarian by training, and formerly worked at the Boston Public Library). [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 12:50 pm
Owne is the chair of the Canadian Federation of Library Associations’ Copyright Committee, a member of the board of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Accessible Book Consortium and past chair of the International Federation of Library Associations’ Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee. [read post]
