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 Windows Central reports that LinkedIn now has a "no politics" button that you can enable on your LinkedIn account's news feed...

 Publishers Weekly has an excellent article about the court battle between the Association of American Publishers and the new Maryland libra...

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports on Legislative efforts to increase access to PACER: "On December 9, 2021, the Senate...

 The Reuters headline grabbed me: " Free PACER? Bill to end fees for online court records advances in Senate ." It's a biparti...

The Research Information Services Team at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has developed a micro-credentialing program on data literacy...

An organization called SeamlessAccess warns that because of new privacy protections enacted by browser vendors, IP authentication, the pre...

There's an interesting article in The Verge titled "FILE NOT FOUND: A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to ...

 A welcome announcement from the Government Publishing Office and the FDLP: "The Office of the Federal Register (OFR) and the U.S. Gove...

 The ABA Journal has an article titled "When it comes to studying for the bar exam, how much is too much?" - which may be of inte...

 Professor Victoria Sutton of Texas Tech School of Law has published the results of a study she has done comparing law student perceptions o...

 The Library of Congress (LOC) website has a new finding aid for the Ruth Bader Ginsburg papers, 1897-2005 .  Ruth Bader Ginsburg was, of co...

 The Library of Congress has announced the members of the new Copyright Public Modernization Committee (CPMC), which includes several libra...

The beSpacific blog today featured a post about a book titled "Masked by Trust: Bias in Library Discovery" by librarian Matthew ...

The ABA Journal has an article titled "Online bar exams axed by NCBE beginning next year," in which it reports that law school gr...

The Association of Research Libraries has a great (for libraries) story reporting that Maryland is the first state in the nation to enact a ...

General Counsel News recently referenced an interesting article in  an article in the New England Journal of Medicine  titled "The ...

The University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries has announced that it has become the institutional home of SocArXiv. SocArXiv is an open archive...

 WESA, Pittsburgh's NPR news channel, reports that Pittsburgh residents can Now apply For free housing legal help. According to the repo...

 Susannah Tredwell over at Slaw, "Canada's Legal Magazine," has an interesting article in which she discusses the changes law...

The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) has announced that it is discontinuing use of the term "fugitive documents" to desc...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently made the headlines in both the ABA Journal and Law 360  for using what both publication...

 An interesting article on Slaw (Canada's online legal magazine) by John Willinsky discusses growth in the Open Access movement during ...

 Law360 has an article titled " Coronavirus Regulations: a State-by-State Review ." The article has an interactive map of the Unit...

 The 2021 NELLCO Symposium: Uncertainty - Living with Reality. Finding Opportunity.  is scheduled to begin this Wednesday, with a host of in...

  LexisNexis has introduced "Law360 Pulse: a comprehensive business of law news service." Law360 Pulse is a news service that com...

  Casemaker and Fastcase have announced that the two companies are merging to create "a powerful alternative for legal information....

"We need to bridge Pittsburgh’s Digital Divide. By creating a community-based, non-profit Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP),......

General Counsel News has a link to an article in the HR Daily Advisor that gives a a helpful summary of newly updated guidance from the Eq...

Westlaw has launched a new "news" product called "Westlaw Today." This news is different from the news you get if you c...

The Federal Depository Library Program reports that the Law Library of Congress has signed a Preservation Steward agreement with the U.S. G...

Pitt IT has reaffirmed that Pitt is migrating all Skype users to Microsoft Teams this Saturday.    And according to various online news sour...

The Markup is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates how powerful institutions are using technology to change our society. They have a stron...

The Government Publishing Office (GPO) has updated its Collection Development Plan and made it available on the FDLP website (as a download...

The (free) 2020 Federal Depository Library Conference is going to be all-virtual this year and will be held on October 20-23, 2020. Register...

Have you noticed shifts in who takes on leadership roles during the WFH pandemic? The BBC has an article on "leadership" titled ...

The Law Library of Congress and the Library of Congress have announced the annual Constitution Day lecture for Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020 at 3...

FDLP is offering another interesting, free, webinar, "Legal Instruction and Resources at the Law Library of Congress: Recent Developmen...

The FDLP and GPO are offering another free webinar called "Subject Headings Behind the Scenes." The webinar will take place on Wed...

 MIT Technology Review has an article titled " People who really miss the office are listening to its sounds at home. " It tells o...