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The Code identifies eight situations where there is consensus about acceptable practices in the fair use of copyrighted materials. Librarians http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/QNwDq3BKgfc/code-of-best-practices-in-fair-use-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/QNwDq3BKgfc" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/code-of-best-practices-in-fair-use-for.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-2899151668852271073Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:16:00 +00002012-01-27T11:16:44.863-05:00 Wilmington, North Carolina and New Hanover County have deployed the first "Super Wi-Fi" network in the US. The innovation will let the public have wireless internet access outside in county parks.  According to an article in the Wilmington StarNews Online, a new type of "white spaces" technology allows the wireless service to go through trees and thick foliage outside, something nearly http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/TaBjfDcDkEg/first-us-county-gets-super-wi-fi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/TaBjfDcDkEg" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/first-us-county-gets-super-wi-fi.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-5049973918731588258Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:31:00 +00002012-01-17T09:31:36.923-05:00SOPAwikipediaWikipedia has announced that tomorrow, Wednesday, January 18, 2012, it will black out the English language Wikipedia for 24 hours as a protest against proposed legislation in the United States—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate—that Wikipedia says would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/arRgrgdkrEk/wikipedia-anti-sopa-protest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/arRgrgdkrEk" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/wikipedia-anti-sopa-protest.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-1853272837311965183Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:17:00 +00002012-01-16T10:17:08.938-05:00ebooksThe Guggenheim Museum has digitized a number of out-of-print publications and is offering them free on their website - a treasury of art books. Selections from key museum titles dating back to the founding of the Guggenheim in 1937 are now freely accessible. Over 60 catalogues of Guggenheim shows were scanned in their entirety with the help of the Internet Archive project. Included in the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/q6OODjdiSQs/guggenheim-ebooks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/q6OODjdiSQs" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/guggenheim-ebooks.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-3392418728779446860Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:46:00 +00002012-01-13T13:46:03.546-05:00LexisNexisDewey B Strategic: Is Lexis the Next Acquisition for Bloomberg? is a thought-provoking blog post by law librarian Jean O'Grady about a report that discusses problems with Reed Elsevier's management of  LexisNexis and implies that Bloomberg Law might be in the wings waiting to possibly buy LN or some of the LN content.  http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/GL2LMCyCCRc/dewey-b-strategic-asks-is-lexis-next.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/GL2LMCyCCRc" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/dewey-b-strategic-asks-is-lexis-next.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-5277203278213168421Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:38:00 +00002012-01-12T20:38:43.530-05:00GoogleSlate Magazine has an opinion piece by technology columnist Farhad Najoo that is pretty much all negative about the new Google+ search. The piece is subtitled "Google’s disastrous decision to muck up its search results with stuff from your social network", and begins "Google just broke its search engine. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/n-UjOHNUdtc/and-then-again-maybe-googles-new-search.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/n-UjOHNUdtc" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/and-then-again-maybe-googles-new-search.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-4058454766001555033Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:28:00 +00002012-01-11T10:28:56.266-05:00Google searchGoogle has just launched an update to their search engine called 'Search plus Your World,' intended to incorporate users' social network with Google search. Searches on Google will automatically provide personalized search results based on Google+ friends, sharing, pictures and likes. These personalized matches will appear along your normal search results. For example, if you are searching for http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/0sZr35lkX4U/google-has-just-launched-update-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/0sZr35lkX4U" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/google-has-just-launched-update-to.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-8941754668520540145Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:11:00 +00002012-01-11T10:11:04.528-05:00Just in time for the new semester, CALI (Computer Assisted Legal Instruction) has announced a new lesson feature called CALI Lesson Resume. Many students have requested this feature; until now, when a student left a lesson before completion the score wasn't saved. With this new feature, when a student leaves a CALI lesson, the student can now return to the spot they left off with the scoring http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/SXxkEH2soNE/new-cali-lesson-feature.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/SXxkEH2soNE" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-cali-lesson-feature.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-6328709786770519085Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:22:00 +00002012-01-10T15:22:24.479-05:00SOPACopyrightaallThe American Association of Law Libraries Government Relations Program has published an advocacy information statement on SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act.  The statement was authored by Barco Law Library Director George Pike, who chairs the AALL Copyright Committee.  From the statement: "AALL urges members of the House of Representatives to vote “No” on SOPA because: - SOPA is overly broad. If http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/2Q2yT3NW5Yc/aall-on-stop-online-piracy-act.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/2Q2yT3NW5Yc" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/aall-on-stop-online-piracy-act.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-6182629506237322490Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:43:00 +00002012-01-10T13:46:28.582-05:00booksbookstorebibliophiliaThis lovely video, the Joy of Books, comes to us from Type, a bookstore in Toronto. hat tip: Pat Roncevichhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/h7Q9Jdrivdw/bibliophilia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/h7Q9Jdrivdw" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/bibliophilia.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-6360802696684911668Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:59:00 +00002012-01-05T15:59:40.953-05:00legal educationABAThe Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the Duncan School of Law of Lincoln Memorial University, located in Knoxville TN, has filed suit against the ABA in federal court after learning that the ABA's accrediting arm had denied Duncan's bid for provisional accreditation. Instead of appealing the decision by the ABA, the law school  filed a  complaint on Dec. 22, 2011, in the US District http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/hW_MocgGb-E/duncan-school-of-law-files-suit-against.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/hW_MocgGb-E" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/duncan-school-of-law-files-suit-against.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-6275605860430875295Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:40:00 +00002012-01-05T15:40:14.501-05:00webinarsLexis AcademicLexisNexis is hosting a series of free webinars on the LN Academic database in January and February. There is a webinar specifically addressing legal research on LN Academic offered on three different days: Thursday, Janaury 26, 2012 2:00p.m.-3:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:00p.m.-2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) Thursday, March 1, 2012 1:00p.m.-2:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) You can http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/_kPvcrf9tJU/lexisnexis-academic-free-online.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/_kPvcrf9tJU" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/lexisnexis-academic-free-online.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-4519203035304234009Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:56:00 +00002011-12-16T08:56:53.350-05:00giftsThe CB I Hate Perfume website (from a guy who hates perfume, at least brand name perfumes) offers a scent called "In the Library" capturing "the scent of books and of the libraries where they live." As CB says,    "There are few things more wonderful than the smell of a much-loved book." Available as perfume, home spray, and "water perfume". http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/ZNbYABPLjL8/holiday-gift-for-bibliophiles.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/ZNbYABPLjL8" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/holiday-gift-for-bibliophiles.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-2001495307235624898Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:03:00 +00002011-12-09T14:23:40.780-05:00ebraryebooksThe Pitt University Library System has announced that Ebrary has made their e-book collection downloadable for Pitt users. ULS has turned this feature "on" for all titles for which we have multiple user access. This includes all of the titles in our Academic Complete subscription as well as those individual titles that we have purchased with a multiple user license. There are two download optionshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/J_o8eqKhFdY/ebrary-e-books-can-now-be-downloaded.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/J_o8eqKhFdY" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/ebrary-e-books-can-now-be-downloaded.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-4551563050289062120Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:54:00 +00002011-12-09T13:54:41.185-05:00bar examThere is a new website called www.BarReciprocity.com that was created to help users navigate the convoluted process of attorney bar admission.  The site  collects and organizes  information about bar exams, bar admissions,  and reciprocity  for the entire United States. It has an interactive map to help navigate the information for individual states.  The site  includes information on special http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/x-fmLOAl4zI/bar-reciprocity-dot-com-provides-one.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/x-fmLOAl4zI" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/bar-reciprocity-dot-com-provides-one.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-2126336580014878413Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:56:00 +00002011-12-08T18:56:14.750-05:00ebooksBusiness Week reports that the United States Dept. of Justice has confirmed that it is investigating the pricing of electronic books  to look at whether there was improper collusion by Apple and publishers to prevent discounting.  This comes after the EU announced on Tuesday that it is investigating possible anticompetitive practices between Apple and five major publishers, including France's http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/AABqIh7zbVo/dept-of-justice-investigates-ebook.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/AABqIh7zbVo" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/dept-of-justice-investigates-ebook.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-3239437975022515460Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:17:00 +00002011-12-06T11:17:26.470-05:00immigrationTRAC is offering a webinar on Weds. Dec. 7 at 2:00 p.m. on "Monitoring ICE charging practices in the Immigration Court". The webinar will include a short (approximately 15-20 minute) overview and demonstration of TRAC's newly released web monitoring tools for immigration courts, followed by a question and answer session. If you would like to join the webinar, please email TRAC.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/ElwH2Esu-jc/trac-webinar-on-ice-charging-practices.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/ElwH2Esu-jc" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/trac-webinar-on-ice-charging-practices.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-8300921533809931617Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:43:00 +00002011-12-05T16:43:32.458-05:00immigration lawTRACTransactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a non-partisan research organization associated with Syracuse University. TRAC from has prepared a report on deportation proceedings in US immigration courts, with accompanying data tools which allow tracking by charge, nationality, and specific location. TRAC's findings, based upon very recent case-by-case data obtained under the Freedom of http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/m6Hvwdh6268/trac-report-on-immigration-and-customs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/m6Hvwdh6268" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/trac-report-on-immigration-and-customs.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-8702966740142313851Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:29:00 +00002011-12-02T12:29:48.498-05:00CNET has a story about a feature that can be used with the iPhone 4S Siri app (Siri is a voice-activated assistant app built into the phone's operating system that allows users to interact with the iPhone 4S by voice). According to the article, if you tell your iPhone "Ask Wolfram what flights are overhead" it will retrieve the information and tell you the overhead airline(s), flight numbers, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/JZvr-iQzUfU/want-to-know-what-plane-is-flying.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/JZvr-iQzUfU" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/want-to-know-what-plane-is-flying.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-9089534892532810202Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:55:00 +00002011-11-29T11:55:54.178-05:00The British Library has announced the launch of the British Newspaper Archive, offering access to 4 million pages from 200 18th & 19th Century newspapers from the UK and Ireland. The project is a collaboration between the British Library and Dundee-based IT firm Brightsolid. Over the next 10 years the project will digitize an additional 40 million pages spanning 3 centuries. The archive includeshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/mOpqGz1c9vE/british-library-announces-historical.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/mOpqGz1c9vE" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/british-library-announces-historical.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-4469271406897499285Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:44:00 +00002011-11-29T11:44:12.962-05:00Embassy Magazine reports that all of Statistics Canada’s standard online products, including the census, socioeconomic and geographic data, will be offered to the public for free starting February 2012. While Statistics Canada has been working towards opening up more of its data for several years, it still currently charges for some online data, including some data sets inside its its “key http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/hKQCLmPx0a0/canadian-government-data-free.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/hKQCLmPx0a0" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/canadian-government-data-free.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-65811077638684221Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:11:00 +00002011-11-21T15:11:39.238-05:00Yesterday's Sunday New York Times had a lengthy  front page story titled "What they don't teach law students: lawyering."  The article discussed a lack of "practical training" in law schools, saying "Law schools have long emphasized the theoretical over the useful, with classes that are often overstuffed with antiquated distinctions, like the variety of property law in post-feudal England. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/j2PSQB_HeqU/lawschools-lawyering-front-page-news-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/j2PSQB_HeqU" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/lawschools-lawyering-front-page-news-in.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-1664636139392802153Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:08:00 +00002011-11-20T16:08:17.778-05:00The Sunlight Foundation has posted a review of the progress that's been made in digitizing 3 key legislative documents: the Constitution Annotated, the Congressional Record, and the Statutes at Large. A year ago the Congressional Joint Committee on Printing directed that these three sets of  documents be published online "as quickly as possible." According to the Sunlight Foundation review http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/cgef2JLJBqo/report-on-status-of-digitizing-vital.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/cgef2JLJBqo" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/report-on-status-of-digitizing-vital.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-6057347588617217850Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:52:00 +00002011-11-18T07:52:46.618-05:00The Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act, introduced in the House (HR 1974) and Senate (S 1411), would require the Public Printer to establish and maintain a website accessible to the public that allows the public to obtain electronic copies of all congressionally mandated reports in one place.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/oUZooS4yEd0/access-to-congressionally-mandated.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/oUZooS4yEd0" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/access-to-congressionally-mandated.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-250542300379350487.post-8812254398491720997Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:42:00 +00002011-11-18T07:42:09.518-05:00SOPApiracyThe Chronicle of Higher Education reports that a group of more than 100 law professors have signed an open letter to Congress criticizing HR 3261, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), as well as similar legislation pending in the Senate ( S 968, the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011, or Protect-IP.) The letter explains that the http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~3/LuJ_61PfB_I/law-faculty-criticize-sopa-in-letter-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Barco Reference Librarian)0<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aPypo/~4/LuJ_61PfB_I" height="1" width="1"/>http://barcorefblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/law-faculty-criticize-sopa-in-letter-to.html