Blog Posts: Steven J. Melamut (Steve)

You Are What You Search

There is an interesting article on the National Archive's Blog about how search engines filter out the results that do not fit your profile. As a result, your search may not reveal links to sites that don't match your interests or politics. It is hard to learn if you never escape your comfort zone. Read the Blog entry.

Digitizing the North Carolina Supreme Court Briefs

The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina is in the midst of a digitization project of its collection of North Carolina Supreme Court Briefs. More than 2,400 volumes will be made freely available on the Internet. The library will be making the PDF files available on its website with a custom search index. Original TIFF files will be archived. W.S. Hein & Co. is scanning the volumes for this project. The library will be using BitCurator, a forensic tool created by the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, to locate and remove sensitive personal information such as social security numbers. Because many steps in this process are a first-time experiment, the completion date is unknown. However, the library will begin posting the briefs in searchable form by the end of the 2013-14 school year.

Law Library Coffee Break

Don't let research be SCARY!!!
Come to the Library Coffee Break
for Coffee and Cookies
Tuesday, October 30th beginning at 1:45 p.m.
In the Library Reading Room

Statistics Resources and Big Data on the Internet

Statistics Resources and Big Data on the Internet is a new resource available on LLRX. It is a comprehensive listing of statistics and big data resources and sites on the Internet.

CALI Outage

On Sunday September 2, 2012, (this weekend) there is a scheduled website outage for website maintenance. CALI.org, CALI lessons, Classcaster, eLangdell and the CALIcon websites will all be affected and offline.

The maintenance is scheduled for 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (NOON). After that, all of the websites will be back and running and in better shape than ever. We’re sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause.

Hotmail Email Accounts banned at CALI.org Website

Due to a near-site killing influx of spammers and other internet ne'er-do-wells using Hotmail, CALI is banning all CALI.org accounts that are affiliated with a Hotmail email address. Unfortunately, this will cause a number of legitimate registered CALI.org users to be banned from the system. This only applies to accounts like name@hotmail.com not to the newer accounts like name@live.unc.edu or name@outlook.com.

Students and faculty that were using Hotmail accounts with CALI, have two options:

Changes to campus wireless

The UNC Campus is making some changes to the wireless network effective August 8. The wireless network, UNC-Tarheel, will be renamed UNC-Guest. Only visitors should be using the UNC-Guest network. A new wireless network, UNC-PSK, will be added. Students, faculty, and staff should be using the wireless network UNC-Secure or UNC-PSK. The wireless network UNC-1 will be phased out by December 2013.

More information.

eBooks in the Law Library

There are many eBooks in the campus libraries about law. Try doing an advanced search and specify format = eBook. Here are the results of a search for subject=law and format=eBook.

New KIC BookEdge Scanner

The Law Library has bought a new BookEdge Scanner for the fourth floor reading room. Patrons can scan and edit images in B&W, grayscale, and color in a variety of formats including PDFs, searchable PDFs and JPGs. Files can be saved to a USB flash drive or emailed as an attachment.

Free eBooks from eLangdell

CALI's eLangdell Press publishes free books for legal ed. Before you buy the Federal Rules this summer, browse eLangdell. These ebooks work on iPads, Kindles, other e-readers, and even your computer with free software.