Electronic Filing Now Possible in U.S. Trademark Office By Carl Oppedahl
Carl Oppedahl was one of the founding partners of Oppedahl & Larson, and has served as an adjunct professor at Cardozo Law School where he taught Advanced Patent Law. He is on the faculty of the Practicing Law Institute’s Patent Bar Review Course. Carl Oppedahl writes a column on legal technology for the New York Law Journal.
Finding Information on the Internet: Search Engines, Directories & Meta-Sites 
(Posted 10/15/98; Archived 11/1/98)
The Almanac of Politics and Government On-line Edition http://www.polisci.com
This site is the web version of the Almanac of Politics & Government. It provides free access to information about legislatures, agencies, and parties in the us and worldwide.
U.S. Response
Moving with dizzying ineffectiveness, the United States is still hammering out (at press time) the details to enable our country to be in compliance with the Directive. (See the
Notes from the Technology Trenches
By Elizabeth H. Klampert
Elizabeth H. Klampert is the Director of Library Services for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Ms. Klampert was formerly a litigator for five years, specializing in professional liability litigation. Before attending law school, she was a corporate librarian for twelve years, holding management positions in libraries in a number of large organizations, including Rainier National Bank in Seattle, Deloitte & Touche, and Merrill Lynch, both in New York. She received both her BA in English and MLS from the University of Washington in Seattle. She received her JD at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.
(Posted 10/01/98; Archived 10/15/98)
Bookbrowse http://www.bookbrowse.com
If you are looking for a good source of online reviews of current fiction and nonfiction titles published and soon to be published, check this site. There are excerpts from current bestsellers plus book summaries and author biographies.
Guide on the Side Expect the Unexpected By Marie Wallace
(Posted 10/01/98; Archived 11/01/98)
Product Review: Filamentality 2.0 By Linda Woods Hyman
Linda Woods Hyman started working in an academic library in 1975, earned her MLS from the University of Maryland in 1983, and since then has worked in medical, law, and public libraries. Linda is nearing completion of a second masters degree in Educational Technology at San Diego State University. Linda is currently part of a three person team creating informational and instructional Internet and Videoconferencing applications for schools, libraries and community colleges at SDSU’s Department of Educational Technology. We “fellows” have been funded by Pacific Bell Education First since March, 1995.
Product Review: SurfSaver By Susan Charkes, JD, MLS
Susan Charkes is the Systems Librarian, Dechert Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia.
(Posted 09/98; Archived 10/15/98)
New York Times on the Web, 9/30/98
Nearing Deadline, Plan for Administering Internet Stumbles. With control of the Internet scheduled to be handed over to a non-profit board any day now, a critical disagreement has stalled the plan and thrown the process into disarray.