Great Supervisors

http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_sp0912/pub_sp0912_MoreMember.pdf

http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_sp0912/pub_sp0912_Member.pdf

Steps for Project Management

http://www.llrx.com/features/projectmanagement.htm

Gifts for librarians...

Looking for gifts for your favorite librarian or book lover? Check out the Librarian in Black's recent post (December 14, 2009).

ALLUNY Newsletter. Volume 34, Issue 3: Winter 2009

The Winter 2009 issue of the newsletter is now ready:
http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/alluny/newslett.asp#343

PDF: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/alluny/2009-03winter.pdf

Table of Contents: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/alluny/news/toc343.html

Enjoy!

Federal Register Changes

http://www.abajournal.com/news/law_librarians_delighted_about_online_changes_to_federal_register/

At your back: the League of Librarians

It's Thursday and only a couple days until the unofficial beginning of our Fall labors. Take a break and look to those who can help - the League of Librarians...

MyCorporateResource - another gem from Bob Ambrogi

http://www.mycorporateresource.com myCorporateResource.com is designed to empower corporate professionals with the latest in legal and commercial information from the world’s top law firms and industry insiders. Every year the top 100 American law firms produce more than 10,000 Client Alerts addressing the key commercial and legal issues faced by their clients. We aggregate, review, sort and summarize this content -for free- to give you a really useful corporate resource.

Lawberry Camp

Organizers Sarah Glassmeyer and Jason Eiseman will be talking about the first AALL Lawberry Camp tomorrow on Blog Talk Radio.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thelawlibrarian/2009/08/07/Annual-Meeting-Review

Competitve Intelligence in 10 Minutes or Less? Not!

http://aallspectrum.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-10-minute-competitive-intelligence-report-is-an-oxymoron/

McKinney's we hardly knew ye....

Check out William Manz's article, "Researching Superseded New York Statutes" in the June 2009 issue of the New York State Bar Association Journal (81(5):46-49). Although the article is primarily about searching those elusive superseded statutes, the first half provides a brief history of the Edward Thompson Co. and the man for whom our statutes are named, William Mark McKinney.

Five Things Lawyers Should Know About Social Media

Nicole Black, ALLUNY Spring Institute and Annual Meeting speaker, has a recent article posted at LLRX, the Law Librarians Resource Exchange:


http://www.llrx.com/features/lawyersandsocialmedia.htm

Competitive Intelligence Using Twitter

If you're not already a reader of 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, do check them out. Here's a recent post about using Twitter to find company employees:

http://www.geeklawblog.com/2009/07/competitive-intelligence-in-web-20.html

60 Sites in Sixty Minutes

Check out the list and slides from the SLA presentation: http://drop.io/60sites

Seeking annual meeting program ideas

Members,
Please send me your ideas for annual meeting programs. All suggestions are welcome!

In what topics are you interested, personally and/or professionally? Is there a speaker that you'd like to recommend? Perhaps a colleague or local "expert" on a legal or library topic? What issues do you consider up and coming? I need to hear from you. Are there topics you are tired of hearing about? I want to know.

Thank you.

Laura Suttell
suttell@gmail.com
lsuttell@phillipslytle.com
(716) 847-5471

ALLUNY Annual Meeting 2009

Save the dates. The annual meeting is Sept. 11-13 in Syracuse.

Library Haiku

Take time out of your busy day and relax for a moment by perusing Reference Librarian Haiku. Entertaining and perhaps provocative. Another way to market your library?

treaties, cases, laws
only ALLUNY can help
answer the question

Accessing your online accounts after death?

We all take email for granted now. But what happens when we die? How do our loved ones or executors access our online accounts to halt banking transactions, take down Facebook pictures, etc.? Check out this timely article from NPR's All Things Considered (Monday, May 11, 2009) and a related spot from the All Tech Considered blog that offer some suggestions.

Law Library of Congress announces web archive of legal blogs

http://www.legaline.com/2009/04/library-of-congress-launches-blawg.html

Murder and Mayhem!

For you history buffs and true crime enthusiasts, check out the New York State Historical Association's Murder Pamphlet Collection Exhibit on Tools of History, a collaborative digitization effort of South Central Regional Library Council.

Learn about the "complete history of the murder of Bertha May Johnson by her inhuman father" or read the execution sermon about John W. Webster, "a man of ungoverned passions".

Among the other collections on Tools of History are the Mark Twain archives from Elmira College and the Alfred University archive images.

Exploring a ‘Deep Web’ That Google Can’t Grasp

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/technology/internet/23search.html?em

Lincoln & the Law, from the Library of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/law/help/rare-books/lincoln.php

NYT & PACER: An Effort to Upgrade a Court Archive System to Free and Easy

I love PACER. Heck, I even had a dream about it this week. Yes, it could be improved, especially its search capabilities. But I use it in conjunction with CourtLink and Justia; I'll be using it all day today for a project.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13records.html?_r=1&ref=technology

Who Moved the Cheese ?

http://www.geeklawblog.com/2009/02/who-washed-my-briefs.html

More on Twitter from the Times' David Pogue

http://tinyurl.com/augts3

2009 Spring Institute - Save the Date

The ALLUNY Spring Institute is May 1st in Syracuse. Same bat place, same bat channel.

List of Law Library Blogs

http://library.law.wisc.edu/wisblawg/blogslistpublic.htm

Swapping Lexis for Loislaw for Non-Billable Research?

This post describes one firm's switch from Lexis to Loislaw for all non-billable online research. I'd wager many firms have similar policies, perhaps in existence for several years. I worked for a firm that required partner sign-off for all billable online legal research. Any one care to share his or her own experiences regarding this set-up? I know there have been many discussions on law-lib about using Lexis or Westlaw exclusively.


http://abovethelaw.com/2009/02/locke_lord_bissell_swapping_le.php

Search engine tailored to human rights issues?

I have not used this site. Anyone care to give it a try and share your review here?

http://www.altsearchengines.com/2009/02/09/a-search-engine-for-human-rights-hurisearch/

From LegalTech New York (I'm Not There)

If you can stand another post about Twitter, read on.

Kevin, from Thomson Reuters, is at the conference and blogs about this session: What is Twitter and How Can I Use It?”

http://tnalcorpcomm.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/twitter-and-lawyers/

Pew Internet report on Generational Use

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released its latest report which surveys generational use among internet users (Generations Online in 2009). Briefly:

Teens and Generation Y (internet users age 18-32) are the most likely groups
to use the internet for entertainment and for communicating with friends and
family. These younger generations are significantly more likely than their
older counterparts to seek entertainment through online videos, online games,
and virtual worlds, and they are also more likely to download music to listen
to later. Internet users ages 12-32 are more likely than older users to read
other people's blogs and to write their own; they are also considerably more
likely than older generations to use social networking sites and to create
profiles on those sites.

Compared with teens and Generation Y, older generations use the internet less
for socializing and entertainment and more as a tool for information searches,
emailing, and buying products. In particular, older internet users are
significantly more likely than younger generations to look online for health
information. Health questions drive internet users age 73 and older to the
internet just as frequently as they drive Generation Y users, outpacing teens
by a significant margin. Researching health information is the third most
popular online activity with the most senior age group, after email and online
search.

I would guess that not many librarians are part of the survey groups since we all know that librarians are usually on the cutting edge of many of the new technologies. As is evidenced by several of our recent programs at our Spring Institutes and Annual Meetings, ALLUNY certainly has quite a few members who are actively involved in the various forms of communication mentioned above. And I would hazard a guess that our average age is probably considered part of the Boomer generation.

Not only do we have a presence on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, and Second Life, some of us have the latest gadgets be they MP3 players, iPods, Blackberries, or iPhones (does anyone have a Kindle yet?). Still others follow many blogs and engage in podcasting. Exciting times and we as a group - as well as individuals - are not only ahead of the curve but embracing the new technologies as fast as we can get them.

New Lexis Web beta

http://kmspace.blogspot.com/2009/01/lexis-web-search.html

Two neat web resources from Tom Mighell at Internet Legal Research Weekly

If you're not already a subscriber, here is the address for Tom's web site and blog: http://www.inter-alia.net/

Two good finds from his recent issue:

TradeAgreements.gov
http://www.tradeagreements.gov/

This site represents an interagency effort by the United States to provide
the public with the latest information on America's trade agreements.
You'll find links here to learn more about free trade agreements, including
news, speeches, press releases, and fact sheets. And of course the site has
information on pending and existing free trade agreements, which you can
browse by country.

Reprinted from LLRX:

Researching Medical Literature on the Internet
http://www.llrx.com/features/medical2008.htm

I haven't mentioned anything from the great legal research site LLRX in a
while, so I'm glad to talk about this article. It's published by Gloria
Miccioli, a law librarian for Manatt Phelps in Washington, D.C. She
provides a great listing of sites that will help you research medical
literature on the Internet. Much of the article is taken up talking about
the fantastic National Library of Medicine databases, but you'll also find
other U.S. government sites, medical metasites, medical libraries and
librarians, drug information, journals and textbooks, visual information,
medical search engines, and a lot more. This is a terrific resource

New Rules of Professional Conduct for Attorneys

I found out today there will be new rules governing attorney conduct in New York State. A New York Law Journal article dated Dec. 17, 2008, gives the details; the rules, effective April 1, 2009 (sigh - some breathing room) will replace the good ol' New York Lawyer's Code of Professional Responsibility. The state bar association's web site has no information about this change, but the state court's and the ABA's web site include this news, along with the text of the new rules.

I found out about the rules because one of this firm's attorneys is seeking a correlation table between the old and new rules, along with a 'black-lined" version of the to-be-replaced (to-be old?) rules. Good luck, I say. Perhaps a publisher will make this information available when the rules are published in print format. Any news - please send it my way, or better yet, share it here.

The LinkedIn Lawyer: The Tao of Twitter: An intro guide

The LinkedIn Lawyer: The Tao of Twitter: An intro guide