Host Richard Leiter has announced that this week’s edition of Blog Talk Radio: The Law Librarian will be broadcast on Thursday, Feb. 4th at 11 am Eastern (10 am Central) time.  The discussion will focus on The Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship (which will be one year old on Feb. 11, 2010) and will feature guests Dick Danner (Duke) and John Palfrey (Harvard), two of  the authors of the Durham Statement.
You can join the show live at at http://blogtalkradio.com/thelawlibrarian Thursday Feb. 4 . Note that it is on Thursday morning, not the usual Friday afternoon.

While most Internet users rely on either Internet Explorer or Firefox to view websites, an alternative that has attracted nearly 5% of the browser market is Google Chrome.  A feature that had distinguished Firefox from Google Chrome was the availability of add-ons to the browser’s functionality.  But recently, extensions became available for the Windows and Linux beta (as well as Mac development) versions of Google Chrome.

The Google Chrome extensions website currently includes two extensions specifically aimed at legal researchers.  One will be familiar to some Firefox users: Jureeka.   Jureeka transforms legal citations on webpages into hyperlinks to the documents being cited, as found on various websites such as Justia and Cornell LII.

The other extension is called Google Scholar Legal Content Star Paginator.  Without this extension, cases on Google Scholar display each page number to the left of the line in which the page begins.  By contrast, with the extension, the page number goes immediately prior to the first word of the page.  Of course, careful researchers should check the source material to be sure that the paging is accurate.  Nevertheless, this extension should be appealing to researchers doing initial searches for case law on Google Scholar.  The extension’s developer indicates how to integrate star paging on other browsers; but installing it on Google Chrome requires no instruction other than clicking an “Install” button.

Written by Scott Frey

Nominations are now being accepted for the following 2010 AALL Awards.  Note that there are several new awards this year, including the Innovations in Technology Award.  I can think of a few excellent CS-SIS candidates!   Please take the time to recognize a deserving colleague, library, or organization.  Or considering nominating your own work!

Nominations are due by February 1st.

• AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Award
• AALL Excellence in Marketing Award
• Chapter Professional Development Award
• CRIV New Product Award
• Emerging Leader Award
• Innovations in Technology Award
• Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award
• Law Library Journal and AALL Spectrum Article of the Year Awards
• Law Library Publications Award
• Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award
• Public Access to Government Information (PAGI) Award
• Robert L. Oakley Advocacy Award
• Volunteer Service Award

AALL would like your comments on the draft revision of the Law Librarian Competencies.   Note that the original version is on AALLNET for comparison purposes.

Send your comments to April Schwartz, Associate Professor and Library Director at the Gould Law Library, Touro Law Center.

The year-end edition of Law Librarian on Blog Talk Radio has been rescheduled for Monday Dec. 21 at 11:00  Eastern Time.  The group of law librarians, including hosts Richard Leiter and Marcia Dority Baker as well as  guests Connie Crosby, Tracy Thompson-Pryzlucki and Roger Skalbeck  will review  the year’s developments and  controversies in law librarianship and  take a stab at looking into the future.

Anyone with insights, gripes, predictions, praises, reflections, questions, comments, or anything in between or other, is invited to call and/or join the chat room and participate.

Some tentative topics:
Connecticut law libraries, xyggy.com, West down-sizing, Intelliconnect, free law, Google Scholar, tinyThomases, Twitter, Govtrack.us, and much, much more.

Good news, fellow cssis-zens:  Richard Leiter and his always-interesting guests will broadcast a special show this Wednesday, December 16, at 1:00PM Eastern/Noon Central/11:00AM Mountain/10:00AM Pacific Note: rescheduled for Monday Dec. 21 at 11:00 am Eastern.

Richard says:  ”the gang and I will be reviewing the year’s developments and interesting controversies, and we’ll take a stab at looking into the future. Connie Crosby, Margie Maes, and Roger Skalbeck will join Marcia Dortiy Baker and I.

Please join us as we talk about Intelliconnect, free law, Google Scholar, tinyThomases, Twitter, Govtrack.us, and much, much more. Join in the chat room, listen live or download from iTunes.

Help us ring in the end of the academic year….we welcome your comments and ideas.

Please join us live at http://blogtalkradio.com/thelawlibrarian, where you can listen live, call in with questions or comments or join us in the chat room. If you miss the show, you can always download them as a podcast on iTunes. Join the show’s Facebook page here: http://tinyurl.com/nouem4

We always welcome your suggestions for topics to consider, or guests that you’d like us to interview.”

And if you missed any of the past broadcasts you can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes.

Registration is now open for Lawberry Camp Midwinter, taking place January 16, 2010 at Harvard Law School Library.  Visit the new and improved Lawberry Camp website to register and for details: http://lawberrycamp.com/

Lawberry Camp Midwinter will be an all day affair.  The day will be divided up into round table discussions andlightning talks and end with the always fun and exciting Battle Decks competition (a sort of karaoke powerpoint presentation improv).

As always, the subjects of these programs will be up to the attendees, so after you register, be sure to suggest a topic you that would like to discuss or give a quick talk about.  If you’re feeling really adventurous, you can also sign up to compete in Battle Decks.

Anurag Acharya, Chief Engineer of Google Scholar,  will be the guest on this week’s edition of BlogTalkRadio’s “The Law Librarian.”  The discussion will focus on  Google Scholar’s new Legal Opinions and Journals product.
Co-hosts Richard Leiter, Marcia Dority Baker, Greg Lambert, and Roger Skallbeck will discuss the development of Google SLOJ and Google’s plans for their future foray into legal research. They welcome in advance any questions or suggestions for topics to talk about with Mr Acharya.
The show will air this Friday, December 4, at 3:00 PM Eastern Time.  Listen live at http://blogtalkradio.com/thelawlibrarian, where you can listen, call in with questions or comments and join the discussion in the chat room.

Gov 2.0: a free 3-hour online conference that will show off some of the brightest examples of Web 2.0 technologies creating greater collaboration, transparency and efficiencies in government will be held on Thursday, Dec. 10 from 12 – 3:30 Eastern time.  The event is sponsored by O’Reilly Media and will feature the five Gov 2.0 award winners from their recent Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington DC:

• Peter Koht (City of Santa Cruz) – City of Santa Cruz Budget Crisis: A Blueprint Using Social Media
• Merrick Schaefer (UNICEF) – txts 4 africa
• Melissa Jordan (Bay Area Rapid Transit) – Transit 2.0 at Bart.gov
• Jeff Nigbur (State of Utah, Department of Public Safety) – Utah Department of Public Safety Media Portal
• Rita King (Dancing Ink Productions) – Digital Diplomacy: Understanding Islam Through Virtual Worlds

You can register for the free conference at the O’Reilly Gov 2.0  website.

The next Law Librarian Radio show on Blog Talk Radio will be next Friday, Dec. 4, at 3 pm Eastern time with host Richard Leiter, Director of the Schmid Law Library at the University of Nebraska.  Topics for discussion will include Google Scholar’s Legal Opinions and Journals, Intelliconnect, tinyThom.as, and  XYGGY.COM.  There may even be a guest from Google joining the discussion!

You can join the Law Librarian Radio show  live at http://blogtalkradio.com/thelawlibrarian, where you can listen live, call in with questions or comments and  join your fellow law librarians in the chat room. If you miss the show, it will be available as a downloadable podcast on iTunes. You might also want to join the show’s Facebook page to keep in touch with upcoming events.