LexisNexis Versus Westlaw – Update

Paul recently wrote about our recent LexisNexis Versus Westlaw survey results.  And, based on good feeback and suggestions from our readers, we’ve revised and enhanced the survey findings.

All 176 pages of the  revised edition of the survey results are now available as part of our Legal Research Paper Series.

The enhancements include a new table (Figure 20) that contains user preferences displayed by library type and a very long spreadsheet (Appendix Q) that cross-tabulates responses to questions one, nine, ten and eleven.  These responses, as gathered, connect the user groups with their stated preferences and preference explanations.  [Note: Appendix Q does not include respondents who only answered question one.]

If you would like to see the data in Appendix Q in a different format, we’ve created a Google shared document with all of the responses to questions one, nine, ten and eleven.

If you have any questions, please let us know.  Thanks!

Meet Our “Founding Printers”

Do the names John Dunlap or Mary Katherine Goddard mean anything to you?  If not, you might want to read a Forum article in today’s USA Today by Antonio Perez, “History shouldn’t forget our ‘Founding Printers’.”

Like [John] Dunlap, Goddard was no ordinary citizen. Despite putting her life on the line to print the document, despite being a trailblazing publisher and commercial printer, despite serving as Baltimore’s postmaster for 14 years, she was forced out of office in 1789 by U.S. Postmaster General Samuel Osgood.

 

Laptop bans – not just for law students only, but legislators too.

Earlier I wrote about law school laptop bans.  The Legal Blog Watch brought this item to my attention:

Bhutan MPs in computer game ban 
By Subir Bhaumik
BBC News, Calcutta 

Parliament in Bhutan has banned its members from bringing laptops to work – to stop them playing computer games.