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At a recent meeting, the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar approved for notice and comment revisions to Chapter 6 (Library and Information Resources, Chapter 7 (Facilities) and Chapter 1 (General Purposes and Practices). http://www.abanet.org/legaled/standards/memochapters6_7_1.pdf
(Note that the Chapter 7 revisions include a new section regarding technology.)

Read a March 8th memorandum containing the proposed revisions at http://www.abanet.org/legaled/standards/memochapters6_7_1.pdf

The memo encouages comments by May 3, 2005 for their adequate consideration. You may e-mail Stephen Yandle, Deputy Consultant at yandles@staff.abanet.org.

sources: ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar and Law Librarian Blog

Just a reminder to depository libraries that the
Survey to Identify Essential Titles for Public Use in Paper or Other Tangible Format is due this Friday, March 18th. See http://www.gpoaccess.gov/essential/

Are you a newer law librarian or graduate student in need financial support to attend the AALL Annual Meeting or one of the workshops in San Antonio? Apply for an AALL Annual Meeting or Workshop grant. See http://www.aallnet.org/committee/grants/grant_application.asp for the application. Note that the deadline is April 1, 2005!

Get Assistance from a Federal Depository Librarian, http://www.gpoaccess.gov/govtinfo.html. “The Government Information Online Pilot Project provides librarian assistanceto the public for locating and using government information. Users of theservice interact with librarians via chat or email.”Source: gpoaccess

It seems that Yahoo has added RSS feeds for a number of its directory sites. Read more about it in Tara Calishain’s Research Buzz. She credits Antsville for pointing it out.

source: ResearchBuzz

Do you feel like you overwhelmed by e-mail messages? Stever Robbers offers Tips for Mastering E-Mail Overload at the Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge.

source: beSpacific

CoolGov is an interesting weblog that highlights the coolest government web tools. For example, recently it reviewed the current Treaties in Force. If you like it, you can subscribe to the RSS or Atom feed.
Source: inter alia

With TurboScout, a meta-search interface, you can type in your search terms once and then search in multiple search engines or use the same interface to search blogs, images, or reference sources. It has a clean interface and is easy to use. Source: inter alia

Some Congressmen are jumping on the blogging bandwagon, including Vermont’s Sen. Leahy.
Source: BeSpacific

In volume 24, number 2, of the LLNE News, Michelle Pierce introduced you to FURL, a social bookmarking tool. Mary Ellen Bates has more on this tool including some interesting ideas on how she uses FURL.
Source: TVC Alert