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Retire - And Start Your Own Business: Five Steps to Success |
 By Dennis J. Sargent, Martha S. SargentIf you plan to retire and start your own business then this book is for you. A comprehensive, step-by-step guide, Retire — And Start Your Own Business is packed with practical, hands-on tools (including a CD-ROM) to help entrepreneurs like you pick and run a perfect business. Library Record • Borrow it • Buy it • More Titles |
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Submitted by: Malgorzata Pawska, Web Content Coordinator
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Yowie! |
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OK … everyone who’s ever viewed a video on YouTube, raise your hand. Thank you. Put ‘em down now. Yesterday a federal judge ordered Google to violate your privacy. Big time. Judge Louis L. Stanton of the federal court for the Southern District of New York ordered Google to turn over, on “a few ‘over-the-shelf’ four-terabyte hard drives” its YouTube logging database, which contains: “for each instance a video is watched, the unique ‘login ID’ of the user who watched it, the time when the user started to watch the video, the internet protocol address other devices connected to the internet use to identify the user’s computer (’IP address’), and the identifier for the video.” The plaintiff in the case, Viacom, is suing Google over copyrighted videos uploaded to YouTube. They want this data to prove that copyrighted content is viewed more often than user-generated stuff. But they don’t need login IDs and IP addresses in order to do that. So why does Viacom want them? They’re taking a page out of the RIAA’s book. I bet they’re going to pick a few high-profile individuals or firms and then sue ‘em. (”Dear [insert name of prestigous law firm]: It has come to our attention that employees of your firm have viewed [insert ridiculously large number here] copyrighted videos from Comedy Central on YouTube during business hours.”) It’ll scare the snot out of a lot of folks. I hope Google resists this. It worries me. I love the Web. Heck, my job title is “Internet Librarian”. But all of this technology — and especially content aggregators such as Google — makes it so easy to slowly-but-surely erode my personal liberties. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
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RIP Windows XP, 2001-2008 |
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Today we bid a fond farewell to Windows XP. I, personally, said goodbye about a year-and-a-half ago. We’ll all miss those pretty blue screens, right? |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
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Update on England’s National Health Service IT Programme and the Security Factor |
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One of my previous blogs reported on a poll that showed that many English physicians planned to boycott the National Health Service’s patient health record database. One of their fears is that a patient’s personal health data could be accessed by hackers and blackmailers. Also important to the success of the programme is the patient’s own confidence that their health record will be secure. A recent report by the National Audit Office, which was released in mid-May, identified patient confidence in the security of their personal health records as one of the major challenges of the programme that must be managed to ensure that the programme succeeds. When the programme is in place, each patient’s Summary Care Record will be accessible anywhere in England by NHS staff involved in that patient’s care. Since each patient can choose to not have a health record created and/or to not allow it to be shared with NHS staff, the programme has less of a chance of success, the more patients “opt out”. On a positive note, the May report stated that only a small proportion of patients in the early adapter areas are choosing not to share their Summary Care Records. Obviously, for a patient to choose to allow access to their health record, they must be confident and remain confident that their information will be kept secure and will be handled appropriately. NHS Connecting for Health has adopted policies on secure processing, transmission, and storage of patient information, and a range of controls have been put in place to prevent unauthorized access to data. Some of these include the use of multiple security measures to protect the system and the encryption of patient information before that information is transferred electronically.
Another factor to maintain a patient’s confidence is to assure him that the actions of NHS and NHS staff members will be “above board”. The Department and NHS have developed a “Care Record Guarantee” which details principles that will be applied in handling electronic care records. Access to care records are controlled through the use of Smartcards and passwords and individuals are granted access to information based on their role and level of involvement in that patient’s care. Not following these principles could result in disciplinary actions or possible legal proceedings against the staff member. The report stresses that maintaining the patient’s confidence is crucial to the programme’s success and recommends that all security principles be “rigorously” applied.
England’s Health IT Programme is a work in progress that continues to be interesting to follow. I look forward to the National Audit Office’s next report. |
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Submitted by: Alice McCreary, Reference Librarian
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Courts Records & Briefs - Jenkins’ Unique Collection |
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Jenkins has an extensive records and briefs collection of Pennsylvania Appellate Courts: Supreme, Superior, and Commonwealth, and records and briefs of U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and US Supreme Court. There are many valuable components of records and briefs that would draw the attention of both legal and non-legal researchers. In addition to being an excellent example of how to prepare an appellate brief, they also contain a table of citations or authorities that affords the researcher relevant cases on a specific point of law. The appellate record may be a rich resource if you looking for copies of the complaint, answer, preliminary objections, transcript of oral testimony, lower court opinion, or other items. The Jenkins’ Courts Records & Briefs collection is large and growing. It is also noteworthy in the sense that the researcher has access to an index to documents published between 1832 and the present. The index is available via Internet at: www.jenkinslaw.org/crb/index.php. There are some documents that are not yet included in Jenkins’ electronic index. If you cannot find a needed document, do not hesitate to email or to call Jenkins’ Reference. The law librarians may be able to locate it for you. More information on how to access records and briefs may be found on the Court Records & Briefs Guide, available at: www.jenkinslaw.org/crb/guide/. |
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Submitted by: Malgorzata Pawska, Web Content Coordinator
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Children and the Law in a Nutshell, 3d |
 By Sarah H. Ramsey, Douglas E. AbramsThis guide follows the structure and format of the authors’ casebook, Children and the Law: Doctrine, Policy and Practice. The authors have devoted entire chapters to the meaning of parent, abuse and neglect, the foster care system, adoption, medical decision making, support and other financial responsibilities, protective legislation, and delinquency. Representation of children is also covered throughout the book, as are several relevant international law issues, including the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, international child labor, and U.S. tobacco exports to children overseas. Library Record • Borrow it • More Titles |
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Submitted by: Malgorzata Pawska, Web Content Coordinator
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AA = CAVU + WIFI - VoIP |
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Today American Airlines will begin testing onboard wifi service on a flight from New York to Los Angeles. If all goes well, the service will be officially launched in a couple of weeks. No content filtering (hmmm) and no voice over Internet (praise God). CAVU? Say, what? C’mon … look it up on the Internet. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
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Spending Long Hours Commuting? |
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If your answer is yes, fill this time by listening to PBI workshops available on CD @ Jenkins. Our recent acquisitions in this area include: Autism and education [sound recording] ——————————– General practitioners’ update 2007 [sound recording] [Mechanicsburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Bar Institute, [2007] Practice of law — Pennsylvania ——————————– Pitfalls of family law [sound recording] : malpractice and/or ethical dilemma? ——————————– The stem cell debate [sound recording] : the intersection of law, religion and bioethics [Mechanicsburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Bar Institute, [2006] Stem cells — Research — Law and legislation ——————————– Trial of a medical malpractice case [sound recording] [Mechanicsburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Bar Institute, [2007] Physicians — Malpractice — Pennsylvania — Trial practice The best way to keep up with Jenkins’ current Acquisitions is by visiting our New Acquisitions page. To find titles related to your area of specialty, use the JAC Advanced Search, enter your subject terms, then use the Material type to limit to Audio. You can also subscribe to our weekly “New for You: Jenkins’ Collection Alert” by loging to My JAC and following steps: For further assistance feel free to contact our Information & Research Department at research@jenkinslaw.org or call 215.574.1505. |
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Submitted by: Katrina Piechnik, Head of Technical Services
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Move Over, King Solomon |
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Today’s New York Times reports on how a defense lawyer in a Florida trial is attempting to use search data from Google Trends to show that his client’s Web site doesn’t violate community standards for obscenity. “Time and time again you’ll have jurors sitting on a jury panel who will condemn material that they routinely consume in private,” said Mr. Walters, the defense lawyer. Using the Internet data, “we can show how people really think and feel and act in their own homes, which, parenthetically, is where this material was intended to be viewed,” he added. The problem with making this claim is that it rests on 3 faulty assumptions: (1) That everyone in the community is online. In 2003, 55.6% of all Florida households had access to the Internet. If you assume 5 percentage points of growth per year since 2003 — which is generous, seeing how Florida grew by about 3 percentage points from 2001 to 2003 — then 25% of Florida’s population still isn’t online. (Data is from the 2007 Statistical Abstract of the United States.) (2) That everyone uses Google exclusively. As of May 2008 Google’s share of total U.S. searches is 71.5%. Thus, the defense is missing almost 30% of the relevant data. (3) That the data in Google Trends is accurate. Here’s what the About Google Trends page says: “Google Trends is a Google Labs product, which means it’s still in its early stages of development. The data Trends produces may contain inaccuracies for a number of reasons, including data-sampling issues and a variety of approximations that are used to compute results. We hope you find this service interesting and entertaining, but you probably wouldn’t want to write your Ph.D. dissertation based on the information provided by Trends.” If I was the prosecutor, I’d blow that quote up, paste it on foamcore, and wave it in front of the jury. Repeatedly. It’ll be interesting to see if the defense’s strategy works. The Times isn’t so sure. It mentions another interesting defense strategy used recently by attorney Jeffrey J. Douglas: “In a federal obscenity case heard this month, Mr. Douglas defended another Florida pornographer. In the trial, Mr. Douglas set up a computer in the courtroom and did Internet searches for sexually explicit terms to show the jury that there were millions of Web pages discussing such material. He then searched for other topics, like the University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, to demonstrate that there were not nearly as many related Web sites. The jury was evidently not swayed, as his client was convicted on all counts.” |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
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The Law of Environmental Justice: Theories and Procedures to Address Disproportionate Risk, Second Edition |
 By Michael B. Gerrard, Sheila R. FosterThis newly updated edition of The Law of Environmental Justice comprehensively examines the sources of environmental justice law and how evolving regulations and important court decisions impact projects around the country. Library Record • Borrow it • Buy it • More Titles |
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Submitted by: Malgorzata Pawska, Web Content Coordinator
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