Take a look at CultureLibre, a blog en ce qui concerne “Le droit d’auteur, Internet et les bibliothèques par Olivier Charbonneau.” Steve Matthews might consider adding it to his list of Canadian law blogs, though it straddles categories. . . . [more]
The application we used to collaboratively put together the Rothstein Pages, Writely, has now been acquired by Google. Am I disappointed? Sure–is there any web-based application I use that Google doesn’t wind up purchasing? Am I surprised? No, not really. While Writely isn’t (yet) perfect, it is a fabulous tool and I have been using it for a wide range of projects, both individually and collaboratively.
Now, all I need is to develop a great little app that Google will quickly snap up…. . . . [more]
On March 6, the Society of Computers & Law (UK) hosted an event at the Royal Society in London to hear a lecture by Professor Richard Suskind on the way in w hich legal services will develop over the next 10 years. Susskind is an independent advisor to government and the private sector on IT, lectures internationally, is a columnist for the Times and has written and edited several books on It and the Law.
To extract from the SCL email, he posited a world changed by exponential increase in processing power and where commoditisation is an inescapable part of . . . [more]
A colleague alerted me to the March 2006 “Canadian Policy Brief” of ARMA International entitled “New Supreme Court Judge Could Have Big IP Impact” that comments on recent speeches made by Justice Rothstein on intellectual property. . . . [more]
Today’s law students have keener eyesight than fogies, but I had to wonder about an experiment being conducted at the University of Melbourne. Students are using hand-held computers in a trial to evaluate the effect of mobile technologies on student learning.
Today’s students, the article claims, “combine work with study, they have competing demands on their time, they are multi-tasking by nature, and they have been dealing with technology since they were born – they shop on-line, research on-line, date online and expect to study on-line.”
. . . [more]“As part of a trial of mobile learning technologies, the students were given
From the Supreme Court news releases:
. . . [more]Ottawa – March 8, 2006 – The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada, announced today that The Honourable Marshall Rothstein will be sworn in as a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday, March 9, 2006 at a private ceremony. The official welcome ceremony for Justice Rothstein will take place at 10:00 a.m., on Monday, April 10, 2006, in the Main Courtroom of the Supreme Court of Canada. On this occasion, it is expected that there will be remarks by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, and representatives of the Government of
Further to Simon’s post yesterday on this topic, the Canadian Association of Law Libraries passed a resolution sometime ago recommending the appointment of a National Law Librarian. In recommendation # 8 in my recent LLM thesis (available online on SLAW at https://www.slaw.ca/resources/tjaden-thesis/), I supported this recommendation in the following terms:
. . . [more]As mentioned in Recommendation #1 above, the Access to Information Review Task Force has recommended “a co-ordinated government-wide strategy be developed to address the crisis in information management” including “partnerships among the agencies with primary responsibility for information management” such as the National Library and other government institutions.
10.10 March 8, Great Library, Law Society of Upper Canada, Osgoode hall, Toronto
Slit. Rip. Toss.
The sound of buckram leather bindings being sliced from the American collection in the Great Library. Dust settling in the big bins where the paper is going off for recycling at a few dollars a ton. Workmen with exacto knives attack the old West Law Reports.
What’s happening? The Great Library is embarked on its biggest discard operation. American caselaw is going the way of all flesh. Why should libraries squeezed for space keep the books, which no-one wants? It’s all on Westlaw . . . [more]
Charles W. Bailey, Jr. of Current Cites has just made his What is Open Access? available. As the notice says, in it he “…explains and summarizes the “Open Access” movement within the scholarly and research communities of higher education.” . . . [more]
I want to bring to everyone’s attention that CALL/ACBD has posted a new and streamlined website at the following URL: http://www.callacbd.ca/.
For more information: Info re: new website
Some new functionality will be especially noticeable to CALL/ACBD members and there will also be new features debuted in the near future as well. . . . [more]