Daily Archives: May 22, 2008

For Whom Does the Google Bell Toll? Not libraries

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I ran across an interesting article by way of a tangentially related Google search today.  The June 12, 2008 issue of The New York Review of Books includes the following item, “The Library in the New Age,” a lengthy discussion of changes in information technology (from the dawn of the written word through Internet search engines), which culminates in an eight-point discussion of how Google Book Search will make physical libraries “more important than ever.”  Written by Robert Darnton, it’s an interesting addition to the scholarship of the digital age.

Looking for a Legal Conference to Attend?….

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Then perhaps you might want to check out the Legal Scholarship Blog , hosted by the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Washington.  This blog has information about hundreds of conferences and law school workshops since it started posting last August.

Not sure if this will be helpful to you?  Think again…
According to an e-mail from Mary Whisner, Reference Librarian from the Gallagher Law Library at Washington:
“Faculty can learn about conferences and calls for papers. They can also find out what their colleagues at other schools are talking about.  Law students can use it as a source for paper ideas. What are the hot topics in the legal academy?  Journal editors might even contact the people who are speaking at in-house workshops and colloquia about publishing their papers.”

And, if you know of an event or your journal/school/group is hosting one, please let the good folks at the Legal Scholarship Blog know — to do so, simply send your announcements to legalscholarshipblog@gmail.com.