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This post was written by Simon Chester: "We didn't get around to noticing the Law Library of Congress' new blog In Custodia Legis, which explains its name and aim here.

Today, it featured a new post on the developments at Thomas to make legislative information more accessible. There aren't a lot of comments yet, but it's early days.

The high spots for me were on Social Media and a Legislative Map at the State level, which looks simple but is only simple to use..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 30 August 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw.

In the news: "2010 TREC Legal Track co-coordinator Maura Grossman and consultant Terry Sweeney advise lawyers to learn the latest search tools, their strengths and weaknesses. They look at the pros and cons of keyword searches, as well as such concept searches as linguistic and mathematical models."

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Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 24 August 2010. Copyright 2009.  ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.

This post was written by Bonnie Shucha: "Zimmerman's Legal Research Guide is a tremendous resource for discovering the best resources in specific areas of law. I often use the online encyclopedia when I'm presented with a research question on an unfamiliar topic..."

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Source: WisBlawg, 30 July 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Larry Bodine: "JD Supra is an online marketing site that lets lawyers upload articles, forms and court opinions for free and then distributes them over new media platforms like Google News, Twitter, RSS feeds, Facebook, syndication partnerships, and a JD Supra widget for maximum exposure.

Now LinkedIn, the online social network used by more than 70 million professionals, has added JD Supra's Legal Updates (http://bit.ly/c8JRjh) to its exclusive list of 16 Intelligent Applications (InApps), which also include Reading List by Amazon and Presentation by Google..."

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Source: Law Marketing Blog, 17 July 2010. © 2010, Larry Bodine Marketing. Reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Laura Bergus: "Spindle Law is an innovation in legal research and writing, aimed at helping legal professionals and students collect and share nuggets of legal wisdom, from the general to the excruciatingly specific..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 13 July 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

From an article written by Jason Beahm: "As a small firm owner, how do you monitor news related to changing laws, without breaking the bank on a bunch of staff you can't afford?"

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Source: FindLaw's The Practice Paper: For Solo & Small Firm Lawyers. 7 July 2010 Copyright © 2010 FindLaw, a Thomson Business. Subscribe <http://newsletters.findlaw.com/>.

From an email newsletter by Sabrina Pacifici:

"Employment Online Resources

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This guide for researchers by Marcus P. Zillman is a comprehensive bibliography of resources and sites comprising the latest and most comprehensive, reliable content and value added information currently available on this subject via the Internet.

Basic Legal Research on the Internet

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This article explores the corner of the Internet landscape that concentrates on legal research. For the most part, these databases and search tools are free, although some might require a library card. Essentially, this is a short list of "go to" sites that most researchers will find useful. Before delving in, author Ken Strutin also examines a few time tested research concepts for the Internet age.

Problems with Creating a Course to Help Colleagues

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How many times have you wondered how to do a task or work with software? You feel wonderful once you have found a colleague who could share their "know-how" about how to complete that task more efficiently or how to implement an applications that does not have a manual that makes sense to you. Lorette S.J. Weldon focuses on four factors to consider when you want to share your knowledge on your own: cost; timing; equipment and global presentation.

FOIA Facts - Ideas for Faster FOIA Processing

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Scott A. Hodes notes that in the current Congress there are bills pending that would create a commission to come up with ideas for faster FOIA processing. He contends that by taking those ideas, along with a few days of congressional oversight hearings to solicit other opinions, Congress would have ample information to create an actual bill that would implement faster FOIA processing now rather than wait for a "commission" to come up with these same ideas.

What is Open Source?

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In the past few years, the term open source has been bandied about not just in library-land, but in every industry. When a term is talked about this much, some would say to the point of overuse, people start to think it's a fad. In this and upcoming articles, Nicole C. Engard is here on LLRX to tell you that open source is no fad, and why."

Source: Pacifici, Sabrina. "New on LLRX.com for June 2010." Copyright © LLRX TM, Law Library Resource Xchange, LLC. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://www.llrx.com/subscribe.htm>.

This post was written by Simon Fodden: "If you use Google Scholar at all, you may be pleased to know that it's now possible to refine certain searches. In a particular kind of search you want to know how a judgment or article has been received: this you can get by clicking on the "cited by [n]" link that will appear beneath each item in your search results..."

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Source: slaw.ca, 6 July 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Connie Crosby: "I first met Martha Murphy of the Fire Sciences Library at the Office of the Fire Marshal in one of my classes at the Professional Learning Centre (now the iSchool Institute) at the University of Toronto a few years ago.

Martha has been a leader in thinking creatively on how to use social media tools in both research and the dissemination of information to her stakeholders.  This recent presentation gives a good overview of some of the tools she is using. In it she discusses the use of these tools for:..."

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Source: Connie Crosby, 27 May 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

From the e-newsletter:

"Updated - A Compilation of State Lawyer Licensing Databases

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Trevor Rosen and Andrew Zimmerman's guide focuses on websites that will help you determine whether a lawyer is currently licensed to practice in a particular state.

Forensic Evidence and the CSI Effect

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The media's popularization of certain types of evidence may be inspiring a "CSI effect" on decision makers according to Ken Strutin. There is a question about whether impressions created by the media in its treatment and portrayal of forensic proof as either irrefutable or absolutely necessary for conviction is truly impacting the outcome of criminal cases. Ken's guide is a collection of select legal scholarship and media studies that illuminates the extent of the phenomenon and whether it needs to be addressed and how http://www.llrx.com/features/forensicevidencecsieffect.htm

Knowledge Discovery Resources 2010 - An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation

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Marcus P. Zillman's latest guide is a touchstone from which all researchers seeking comprehensive, reliable and diverse resources for knowledge discovery via the Internet can benefit. The key is to be able to find the important knowledge discovery resources and sites both in the visible and invisible World Wide Web. This guide to selected knowledge discovery resources and sites offers excellent knowledge and information discovery sources to assist you attaining your research goals.

LLRX Court Rules, Forms and Dockets - updated by law librarian Margaret Berkland

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Source: Pacifici, Sabrina. "New on LLRX.com for May 2010." Copyright © LLRX TM, Law Library Resource Xchange, LLC. All rights reserved. Subscribe <http://www.llrx.com/subscribe.htm>.