LLRX Update - June 15, 2000

[Cindy Chick]

LLRX Update - http://www.llrx.com

LLRX.com (http://www.llrx.com), the free Web journal providing current,
comprehensive articles and resources for legal professionals and law
librarians on research, information technology, digital legislation,
cybernews, Web links and Web tools for researchers, software reviews, and
presentation/marketing/training issues, since 1996. 

Editors: Sabrina I. Pacifici & Cindy L. Chick. 
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New on LLRX.com, June 15, 2000 

German Business and Commercial Laws: Guide to Translations into English
and Select Auxiliary Sources Martina Kammer's guide is a finding aid for
people involved in international legal and business transactions,
students, translators and anyone else who might be interested in locating
English translations of German business and commercial laws. She includes
print and Web sources. 

Shared Technology Landscape: Issues in MIS and Library Relations and 
Communications 
Roger V. Skalbeck focuses on how the evolution of technology applications
and services in law firms has increased the need to insure that the
essential services of libraries and IS are effectively utilized and
coordinated. 

Research RoundUp: Searchable Intellectual Property Databases 
Attorney and author Kathy Biehl begins a new column for researchers with a
review of Web-based IP databases maintained by government, academic and
institutional sites. 

Notes from the Technology Trenches 
This month's column is Part 2 of Roger Skalbeck's review of Applications
Services Providers (ASPs). He focuses on three ASP companies who provide
services tailored specifically for the legal market: CaseCentral.com, Niku
for Legal and ELF. 

Reference from Coast to Coast 
We welcome the return of this column, now authored by law librarians Jan
Bissett and Margi Heinen. Their topic is resources for U.S. death records. 

LLRXBuzz 
Tara Calishain reviews: Adobe's new PDF search engine; the largest history
library accessible from a desktop; free news digest for eight major
industries; a fee-based searchable database for federal lobbying reports;
McGraw-Hill's new continuously updated science site; the commercial
airline crash database. 

Latest Links 
Margaret Berkland highlights the British and Irish Legal Information
Institute; Finding International Statistics Online; a site with links to
over 6,000 publishers home pages; and xrefer, a search engine for
reference works online. 

Newstand and CongressLine Links 
Stories include the latest news and views on Microsoft; passage of the
e-signatures bill and anti-spam bill; electronic FOIA progress slow for
gov't sites; the Medical Privacy Protection Act; Rhode Island's new online
health license database; current court cases on linking; the battle over
Napster; voluntary industry guidelines for online privacy; regulating
Internet telephony and more. 

SLA Conference 2000 
Updates from the conference in Philadelphia. 

Ask the Research Guide
http://www.llrx.com/guide/
 
Q. How do I find cases interpreting a section of the CFR?  
A. See the  entry on the CFR's relation to Case Law in the CFR entry of
Zimmerman's Research Guide.  

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