185 ABA Journal Law Libraries articles.
Writing at her blog, At the Intersection, Edge International general counsel Pam Woldow addresses the “inefficiency disease”–familiar to anyone reading this–of “digital distraction.”
…Dec 14, 2012 2:30 PM CST
The governing council of the ABA’s law school accrediting arm has given preliminary approval to a package of proposed changes in law school accrediting standards covering facilities, equipment, technology, libraries…
Dec 3, 2012 10:44 PM CST
Dec 1, 2012 10:10 AM CST
An ABA committee has voted to approve a package of proposed changes in the law school accreditation standards covering facilities, equipment, technology, libraries and information services.
The proposed changes, unanimously…
Nov 20, 2012 2:50 PM CST
Move over, Jared.
A law librarian says she lost nearly 80 pounds by eating out, but she didn’t go to Subway.
Christine Hall, 66, says she managed to lose weight…
Oct 12, 2012 2:14 PM CDT
As governments tighten budgets, archivists are being forced to cut back on staff and conservation activities, threatening historical documents and records throughout the country.
This is particularly true in Georgia…
Sep 27, 2012 11:32 AM CDT
The Library of Congress recently unveiled Congress.gov, a legislative information site that is intended to eventually replace Thomas.gov, the entity’s existing research site.
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Hulett “Bucky” Askew, the ABA’s former consultant on legal education, has been elected to the board of trustees of the National Conference of Bar Examiners.
Askew’s election was announced in…
Sep 6, 2012 11:00 PM CDT
You actually can get something for nothing when it comes to online legal research, says Matthew Braun, a legal reference librarian at the Law Library of Congress. An annual meeting…
Aug 3, 2012 11:48 PM CDT
A new study of the most-cited law review articles concludes that critical legal studies and critical race theory “have faded in acceptance.”
The opposite is true for intellectual property law,…
Jun 1, 2012 3:22 PM CDT
Jun 1, 2012 9:10 AM CDT
Federal appeals courts are increasingly citing the reader-edited encyclopedia Wikipedia, though the trend has not spread to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Federal appeals courts have cited Wikipedia about 95 times…
Apr 24, 2012 1:18 PM CDT
A new website called Inforuptcy is touted as a cheaper alternative to PACER for users searching for bankruptcy documents.
The site charges users the regular PACER fee for…
Apr 19, 2012 2:41 PM CDT
Plans for a law school in Daytona Beach, Fla., are in the works.
Jacksonville, Fla., lawyers Eric Smith and Steven Nemerson, both former educators, are behind the plans, along with…
Apr 16, 2012 7:13 PM CDT
Are law review articles so boring that no one wants to pay to read them?
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. expressed his views…
Feb 29, 2012 1:44 PM CST
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