LLRX Update - Nov. 6, 2000

[Cindy Chick]

New on LLRX.com ( http://www.llrx.com ) for November 1-6, 2000

**Be a Web-Savvy Researcher

Legal research expert Genie Tyburski responds to the challenges of
conducting successful research on the Web by providing focused strategies to
obtain specific resources in a direct and timely manner.


**The Impact of the Internet on Representational Democracy

Congressional expert Stephanie Vance's article offers readers her
insights,gained after 12 years on the Hill, on how citizens can communicate
effectively with government and actively participate in policy related
issues throughout the year.


**Update to Researching Intellectual Copyright Law in an International
Context

Stefanie Weigmann's updated guide examines the current international
intellectual property regimes and identifies foreign laws and bilateral
treaties, both in English and the vernacular, with links to online resources
and bibliographic references to hard copy.


**A Guide to the Swedish Legal System

Ingrid Kabir, law librarian at the Law Section of Stockholm University,
reviews a wide range of information and resources on the Swedish legal
system, including: sources of law, the court system and reports of cases,
indexes and digests, parliamentary information, legal publishers, legal
news, and more.


**LLRX Buzz (<http://www.llrx.com/buzz/buzz31.htm>)

This week Tara Calishain reviews:
Power Industry Database Gets More Power
National Center for Charitable Statistics Gives Giving Information
Get Traffic Information on 28 Cities
Site Offers Statistics on Children
Get Lots of Information from that Zip Code
Have You Changed Your Clocks Yet?


**Guide on the Side: Parliamentary Procedure (Part III) - The
Organizational Infrastructure
<http://www.llrx.com/columns/guide45.htm>

Ignore Robert's Rules of Order at your peril. Marie Wallace gives us
examples of the highs and lows of organization meetings.


**The Internet Roundtable #14: A Continuing Discussion of Law Firm
Marketing on the Internet
<http://www.llrx.com/extras/ir14.htm>

Jerry Lawson, Brenda Howard, Dennis Kennedy and Larry Bodine discuss:
Validating Your Web site: How can web sites gain the trust of potential
clients?


** Margaret Berkland's Latest Links
(<http://www.llrx.com/links/index.htm>)
include: a combined database of twenty plus reference works; a search engine
that allows you to search for large sections of text rather than keywords;
Law and Politics Internet Guide; a site that claims to be a worldwide
directory of library homepages, web-based OPACs, Friends of the Library
pages, and library e-commerce affiliate links; a dictionary of medical
terms; a site with links to U.S. state and local transportation data.

**Featured Site

MapBlast! <http://www.mapblast.com>
Here is a site that many of us will make use of on a regular basis, as it
provides a terrific service that is easy to use, accurate and practical. It
offers interactive maps, driving directions, products/services along a
designated travel route, traffic reports, reservations for lodging, a
searchable Yellow Pages, as well as a beta database you can query to locate
websites in your area on a given topic, such as restaurants in and around a
city you are visiting.

**Newstand
<http://www.llrx.com/newstand/>

Court to Decide on Online Stories;
Bertelsmann Has Option on Napster Majority;
DoubleClick Settles Patent Suit in 11th Hour;
Web Maps Pinpoint Crime Activity;
NH Court Rules School District Must Release Net Records;
Gartner Group Study Says All States Should Have Online Voting by 2004.

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