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A valuable web tool — tinyThom.as — that makes the links on the Library of Congress’ legislative website, THOMAS, permanent, has been introduced recently; see:
Mighty Tiny Thomas
Cross-posted on LegalResearchPlus.

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USA.gov, which provides official information and services from the United States Government, has recently organized federal government blogs by subject.
Under the current organization there are 11 categories:

Business and Economics Blogs: Small business owners, economics news…
Defense and International Relations Blogs: Military, foreign policy, veterans…
Environment, Energy, and Agriculture Blogs: Agriculture, environmental protection, saving energy…
Family, Home, and Community [...]

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Free access to some two million eBooks — through August 4, 2009 — is available at the Fourth Annual World eBook Fair (underway since July 4).
See:
Resource of the Week: Roundup of Recent Posts About eBooks…and Some Kindle Stuff
Hat tip to ResourceShelf.
Cross-posted on LegalResearchPlus.

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Law Librarian Blog today features an interesting post about items missing from the U.S. National Archives, likely through employee theft.
See Missing Items from US Archive, Found Item in UK Archive.
See also the National Archives webpage Missing Historical Documents and Items.
And see the U.K. National Archives news item Lost Page of American History Found at The [...]

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Imagine having to read an entire casebook in just half a day…Well, Congress only had 13 hours to read the 1100 page stimulus bill.
The good folks at the Sunlight Foundation have started the Read the Bill project:
“Readthebill.org is a commonsense solution – we want Congress to post all bills online for 72 hours [...]

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Carolina Academic Press (CAP), a publisher for over 20 years of titles in areas such as anthropology, archaeology, classics, criminal justice, education, history, medicine, politics, sociology, sports and law, has a convenient and useful paperback Legal Research Series covering legal research in — to date — 19 states:

Arizona
Arkansas
California
Connecticut (forthcoming)
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Kansas
Louisiana (forthcoming)
Michigan
Missouri
New York
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Texas (forthcoming)
Washington

The titles, authored by [...]

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In an AP story today by Roxana Hegeman, “Twitter Boosts Public Access to Federal Courtrooms.”
The lead paragraph reads:

“In a victory for news technology in federal courts, a judge is allowing a reporter to use the microblogging service Twitter to provide constant updates from a racketeering gang trial this week.”

Thanks to Bob Ambrogi  for tweeting [...]

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“Index of Bush-Era OLC Memoranda Relating to Interrogation, Detention, Rendition and/or Surveillance” is a newly updated chart available at the ACLU website.   The “Status” column in the chart details if the memoranda are still secret or public.  And, if a memo has been repudiated, there are details in the “Notes” column.
We love [...]

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New article in Wired  by Ryan Singel about the “Yes We Scan” campaign.
Singel writes:
“But now, Malamud is campaigning to be The Man.
Or, more accurately, the chief printer for The Man.”
…
“Given Malamud’s ability to wear down government bureaucracies, the Obama administration might do well to save themselves the trouble. Malamud will be the nation’s public printer [...]

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Today’s New York Times features an article on Carl Malamud’s latest fight to keep the ‘operating system of democracy’ freely available.  The article, “An Effort to Upgrade a Court Archive System to Free and Easy,” by John Schwartz explains:
“So, using $600,000 in contributions in 2008, he bought a 50-year archive of papers from the federal [...]

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