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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.”
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“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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Conference Room Reservation Procedure and Policy:
1. Students should send an email to reference@law.stanford.edu, phone 725-0800, or visit the reference desk to reserve a conference room in advance.  For same-day conference room needs, students may also request rooms on a first-come-first-served basis by visiting the loan desk on the first floor.
Reservation requests must be submitted no [...]

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[Cross posted on LegalResearchPlus.com]
Hello BLAW: Bloomberg Law, the Newcomer in Legal Research, Meets Academic Users, 13(5) AALL Spectrum 16-19 & 31 (March 2009)

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This from ReadWriteWeb:
“The New York Times just released an interesting new online product that tries to recreate the experience of spreading out the newspaper on Sunday morning. The new ‘article skimmer‘ gets back to the basics with a streamlined interface that lets you quickly scan the top headlines in every section of [...]

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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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From a SSRN announcement:

We are pleased to announce a new Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) Sponsored Subject Matter eJournal — Legal Information & Technology, sponsored by the Mid-America Law Library Consortium.
LEGAL INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY

View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/Legal-Information-Technology.html
Preview the First Issue:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/sample_issues/1334262_CMBO.html
Subscribe: http://hq.ssrn.com/jourInvite.cfm?link=Legal-Information-Technology
Editors: Randy J. Diamond, University of Missouri School of Law, and Lee F. Peoples, Oklahoma City University [...]

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Voice of America provides a pronunciation guide for names of foreign leaders and dignitaries. Type  in a name or choose from an alphabetical list.
Example of Sergio Viera de Mello from the VOA site. In addition to the written phonetic spelling, the site also provides an audio file of name being spoken in translation.

DE MELLO, SERGIO [...]

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“A Statute by Any Other (Non-Acronomial) Name Might Smell Less Like S.P.A.M., or, The Congress of the United States Grows Increasingly D.U.M.B.”
Cleveland-Marshall Legal Studies Paper No. 08-151
CHRIS SAGERS, Cleveland State University – Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
While the question why we Americans name our statutes is rarely asked and not obvious, it turns [...]

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We spend a full day talking about newspapers and their role in legal research in our class.  And throughout the class we make frequent reference to newspapers (such as, for example, searching for news coverage when legislation passes hurdles in Congress).  Of course no one in our class has actually ever purchased [...]

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