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Survey of Academic Library Blogs

List of IHEs covered in Crawford's Academic Library Blogs: 231 Examples and sample entries are available in the February 2008 issue of Cites & Insights [PDF and HTML]. [JH]

Academic Library Blogs: 231 Examples
Walt Crawford

289 pages, 2008
Paperback: $29.95 | PDF Download: $20 | Available from Lulu

Description: The purpose of this book is to guide you to blogs that you might find useful when thinking about your own library’s case—blogs from nearby libraries, blogs from institutions you regard as similar, or blogs that specialize in topics or work in ways that you’ll find interesting. Most of this book is examples: 231 blogs from 156 institutions of higher education in the United States, Canada, Australia, Botswana, England, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales, arranged geographically.

Oregon Law Students Create Online Journal to Combat Legal Inscrutability

From the press release:

The Legality is the combined forces of eleven second-year law students at the University of Oregon. The site launched February 4th, and has already simplified complex events like the Hollywood Writer’s Strike, the Scrabulous Copyright Infringement Claims, and Police Search and Seizure. The site targets potential law students, lawyers who want to read analysis in various areas of law, the intellectually curious, and the media (who may be looking for depth on a story). Unlike traditional paper journals which can take more than a year to publish articles, The Legality’s coverage of popular events is made possible by a quick turnaround. Each week a topic in the public eye is selected, and over the course of four days the team assembles a comprehensive legal analysis in a style accessible even to those unfamiliar with the law.

The Legality updates three times each week with original content. New main articles are posted each Wednesday.

[JH]

The Web Development Cheat Sheet Cheat Sheet

Check out Top 100 Lists of Web Development Cheat Sheets by VirtualHosting's Jessica Hupp. The list is broken down into the follow categories:

• General cheat sheet lists
• Client-side cheat sheet for CSS, HTML, etc.
• Server-Side cheat sheets for PHP, Python, Ruby, etc.
• Blogging
• Others

Hat tip to LISNews. [JH]

Citizen Media Law Project Launches Legal Guide

Here's the Citizen Media Law Project's announcement about its Legal Guide project. While a work-in-progress, the Legal Guide already provides useful information in its fairly detailed articles. You can browse the Legal Guide section-by-section or search it. [JH]

Resource Documents the History of Silicon Valley

The History of Silicon Valley, the Internet & the PC collects archived interviews with early innovators in all three fields, early photographs, and links to detailed research papers.  Very interesting. Hat tip to LISNews. [JH]