CongressLine – EU Directive 95/46 – Privacy 101
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 – October, 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.
Guide on the Side – Expect the Unexpected
Guide on the Side Expect the Unexpected By Marie Wallace
(Posted 10/01/98; Archived 11/01/98)
Extras – Product Review: SurfSaver
Product Review: SurfSaver By Susan Charkes, JD, MLS
Susan Charkes is the Systems Librarian, Dechert Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia.
Extras – Product Review: Filamentality 2.0
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.
Latest Links – Bookbrowse, etc….
(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.
Newstand – September 1998
(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.
Extras – How to Implement an Intranet
Features – Internet Communications Tools
Internet Communication Tools By Diana Botluk
Diana Botluk is an online legal information professional who lectures, teaches and writes about finding law-related information in an online environment. She is the author of The Legal List: Research on the Internet, and a columnist for Internet Law Researcher newsletter, with a column called Finding Information on the World Wide Web. She teaches basic, advanced and online legal research at the University of Maryland, and Internet classes at CAPCON Library Network. She has lectured at many professional conferences, is actively involved in the Law Librarians Society of D.C. and the American Association of Law Libraries. She is a reference librarian at Catholic University Law School, where she earned her J.D. in 1984.
Latest Links – The Currency $ite, etc….
(Posted September 15, 1998; Archived October 1, 1998)
The Currency $ite http://www.oanda.com/
This site has an Interactive Daily Table with rates for multiple currencies and a free Historical Currency Table with low/high/average. 164 currencies are covered. There is also a currency converter. The site is produced by OANDA which is the Internet arm of Olsen & Associates, a company that produces advanced forecasting technology for the financial markets with operations in Zurich and Frankfurt.