Newstand – May 1998
May 1998
The Sidebar – Frauds Hoaxes Myths and Chain Letters or What’s This Doing in My E-Mail Box, p. 50. Don’t be taken in by Internet hoaxes. This article will tell you how to tell fact from fiction.
Category «Columns»
Extras – Cataloging Internet Resources: “Don’t Worry. It’s Easier than Rocket Science.”
Cataloging Internet Resources: “Don’t Worry. It’s Easier than Rocket Science.” By Joni Lynn Cassidy President, Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc.
Joni Lynn Cassidy is President/Co-owner/Founder of Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc., a small quality-driven company providing contract cataloguing and technical services to law firm, bar association, corporate and special libraries throughout the U.S. and Europe. She founded Cassidy Cataloguing in 1985 and was joined full-time by her “computer wiz” husband, Michael, in 1988. A professional and support staff of 12 serves 75 libraries. Recent projects include the reclassification of the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School to Library of Congress classification. Cassidy Cataloging Services, Inc. is proud to be unveiling a new service: MOLEhill ’98. MOLEhill ’98 will provide libraries with reasonably-priced desktop access to their online public access catalog (OPAC) via the Internet. Contact Joni Cassidy at [email protected] or 973-481-0900, for more information.
Latest Links – Symbols, etc….
(Posted May 15, 1998; Archived June 1, 1998)
Symbols.com http://www.symbols.com/
Symbols.Com is the online version of Carl G. Liungman’s Thought Signs. It claims to be the world’s largest online encyclopedia of graphic symbols containing more than 2,500 Western signs arranged in 54 groups by their graphic characteristics. There are two indices by which you can search. Use the Graphic index to search for the meaning or history of a sign. To use this index, you must enter the symbol’s characteristics. There is a good help section to assist you with describing the characteristics. Use the Word index to search for a symbol by its meaning. The meanings are arranged alphabetically.
Latest Links – Agency FOIA Sites, etc….
(Posted May 1, 1998; Archived May 15, 1998)
Agency FOIA Sites http://www.citizen.org/public_citizen/litigation/foic/foiasite.html
This site offers links to several U.S. government agency FOIA web pages some agency FOIA reports.
ResearchWire – Searching on the Web: Adventure an Abyss
ResearchWire Searching on the Web: Adventure an Abyss By Genie Tyburski
Genie Tyburski is the Research Librarian for Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the editor of The Virtual Chase:TM A Research Site for Legal Professionals .
Guide on the Side – Getting Proposals Accepted Within Your Organization
Guide on the Side Getting Proposals Accepted Within Your Organization By Marie Wallace
Marie Wallace has enjoyed a fulfilling career as a librarian, beginning in 1951 in academia with the University of California and transitioning in 1971 into the private law library world until her 1995 retirement from O’Melveny & Myers. She is the 1997 recipient of the American Association of Law Libraries’ highest honor, the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award. Throughout her professional life, Marie has been a guiding force in the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, Practising Law Institute’s programs for law librarians and Teaching Legal Research in Private Law Libraries (TRIPLL).
Extras – What’s Wrong and What’s Right With Pacer
What’s Wrong & What’s Right with PACER A Cry for Help Carl Oppedahl’s Response Joann Howard Swanson’s Response
Latest Links – Center for Latin American Capital Markets, etc….
(Posted April 16, 1998; Archived May 1, 1998)
Center for Latin American Capital Markets http://www.netrus.net/users/gmorles/index.html
This site has five sections: Exchanges and quotes which provides links to all the stock exchanges in the region that have a Website; Research which provides access to original research and the site’s complete database of quotes on the major markets and links to other research tools; General Economic Data which provides links to original sources of relevant economic data; Country News which has the site’s weekly newsletter Latin.Net and other local sources of news; and What’s new which is a historical archive of changes to the site.
Newstand – April 1998
April 1998
Feds in a Web World: Public Domain v. Copyright, p. 35. Should government generated databases reside in the public domain? The pros and cons are discussed. Don’t miss the sidebar defining the “Can’s, Cannots’, Maybe’s, and Should’s” when it comes to copying government produced electronic information.
Notes from the Technology Trenches – April, 1998
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.