Can Someone Use My Picture Without My Permission? Public law librarians hear this question quite frequently and while we don’t really want to make our responses more complicated than…
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Where Do You Find Great Legal Research Advice?
When you need legal research advice, turn to the legal research experts, professional law librarians, most of whom are able to share their expertise freely, or low-costly (so to…
It Takes More Than a Dumpster to Build a Digital Law Library
“It Takes More Than a Dumpster to Build A Digital Law Library: 12 Critical Components For Digital Law Library Transformation.” from Dewey B Strategic, 12/10/14 “.… For the past…
Model U.S. Law Firm Copyright Policy (AALL, 2016)
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) has updated its: Model Law Firm Copyright Policy Excerpt: “[AALL’s Model Law Firm Copyright Policy is merely a model of a copyright…
Law Librarianship is Not About Books or Coffee Machines
Espresso Machines are Lousy Substitutes for Law Library Leadership ( 3 Geeks and a Law Blog 4/22/16 blog post) : “…. Law Librarianship is not about the number of books…
File a Complaint at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
beSpacific alerted us to this beta-test Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) database: Consumer Complaint Database You can file all sorts of consumer financial services complaints at their “Submit a…
Money, Money, Money: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
One day you will need or thank the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), just as we need or thank the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. If you…
Cite-Checking: A Thousand Points of Citator-Speak
I recently asked law librarians for alternate, non-proprietary, ways of saying “Shepard’s” or “KeyCite” (or Shepardizing or KeyCiting). Below you’ll find a short list and a long list of…
Theft of Intangibles, the Duh Factor, and Law Librarians
…maybe I should change my password”) then I may have probed a little bit (we try not to probe too much) and then referred him to consumer or criminal law…
Books about Careers in the Law
It’s that time of year when high school and college students start asking questions about “careers in the law.” There is a lot of “recommended reading” at law school…
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