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Introducing Jenkins Journal Portal |
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On September 1, 2005 we added a Journal Portal to our Web site. This portal brings together thousands of legal and nonlegal journals from a variety of sources and media into one easily searchable place. If you have a reference to a business, medical, legal, social or behavioral science journal, our portal will link you to the source(s) to obtain your information. The portal can be searched by exact journal title or keywords in a journal title. You can also conduct a subject search to locate journals on a topic. There are 14 main subject headings with over 600 subheadings available. Don’t waste your valuable time searching the entire web for a journal — bookmark journals.jenkinslaw.org! Our librarians are available to answer any questions you may have about this new service. They can be reached at research@jenkinslaw.org or 215.574.1505. |
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Submitted by: Ida Weingram, Head of Outreach Services
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Federal Register Coverage Extended on HeinOnline |
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The Federal Register Library within HeinOnline has been expanded to include ALL volumes of the Federal Register (Volume 1 - 1936 through Volume 70 - June 2005). HeinOnline is now your exclusive source for over 1,000,000 pages of U.S. Federal Register coverage from inception in 1936 to the present. HeinOnline is a Jenkins member-only benefit for firms with less than 50 attorneys. |
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Submitted by: Ida Weingram, Head of Outreach Services
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Start Your Own Blog |
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Everywhere you go on the web now-a-days you can find something about blogs. So what are blogs exactly? Blogs are only one part of the Read/Write Web. Which brings us to question number two - What is the Read/Write Web? Well, Dan Gillmor has a great chapter in his (freely available) book We the Media entitled “The Read-Write Web” that explains it better than I could. Now, back to Blogs. Free Blog publishing services like Blogger and LiveJournal and low cost solutions like Bubbler and TypePad have made it so that anyone can create a Web site with little or no knowledge of HTML. This means that the average Internet user (that’s you) can have his/her own site with the click of a few buttons … no web design knowledge necessary. Give it a whirl … everyone else is! |
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Submitted by: Nicole Engard, Former Web Manager
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August 29, 2005
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The Beach House |
 By James Patterson and Peter de JongeJack Mullen is in law school in New York City when the shocking news comes that his brother Peter has drowned in the ocean off East Hampton. Jack knows his brother and knows this couldn't be an accident. Someone must have wanted his brother dead. The Beach House reveals the secret lives of celebrities in a breathtaking drama of revenge with a shocking finale. Library Record • Borrow it • Buy it • More Titles |
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Submitted by: Malgorzata Pawska, Web Content Coordinator
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August 24, 2005
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Google Talk |
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OK, according to the script here’s where I’m supposed to post a glowing review of Google Talk, the new instant messenger/voice chat client that the Big G released today. Sorry … no dice. Didn’t download it. Not gonna use it. Since 99.9999999999% of the attorneys in my classes claim they’ve never used IM, I don’t pay too much attention to it. Having said that, here are my thoughts, in no apparent order: 1. Google’s continuing to take shots at Microsoft’s core business, the operating system. First Google Desktop … now Google Talk … and maybe a browser someday? 2. Google’s also now competing with one of its friendlies — AOL — which leads the IM field. 3. So much for the “laser-like focus on search”. (I know that concept’s been dead for a couple of years, but I had to say it anyway.) 4. Seems like Google cares more about the voice part of its client. Makes sense. Most people use the IM clients you can download for free. Voice — well, that’s something you can monetize. FYI, the big 3 IM clients are AOL IM, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo Messenger. Choose carefully — they don’t talk to each other. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
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August 23, 2005
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Number of “Cyberchondriacs” Increases to Estimated 117 Million |
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The percentage of cyberchondriacs who search sometimes or often appears to also be on the rise. Most adults who have ever looked for health information online have been generally successful in finding what they are looking for and believe the information to be at least somewhat reliable. Furthermore, many of these people use this information in their discussions with their doctors or use the Internet to help augment the information that doctors provide them. These are some of the results of a nationwide Harris Poll of 1,015 U.S. adults surveyed by telephone by Harris Interactive between June 7 and 12, 2005. For the full report from HarrisInteractive’s Healthcare News, see http://www.harrisinteractive.com/news/newsletters/healthnews/HI_HealthCareNews2005Vol5_Iss08.pdf |
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Submitted by: Alice McCreary, Reference Librarian
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Search Your Circulars |
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In this age of the Internet I often find myself thinking, “I wish I could search this [insert media here] for [insert what I’m looking for here].” Well, Cairo.com takes a step in the right direction. Cairo.com scans the Sunday circulars, sorting sale items by ZIP code, store and product, so that you can easily find the best deals by searching your area’s circulars! From your results page you sort your results by price, retailer, brand, category and distance. Once you’ve found the results you want you can then compare prices online using popular shopping sites like Amazon.com and Froogle. And the fun doesn’t stop there … you can also sign up for alerts to tell you when the price drops on the item you’re interested in! This site is a bargain shopper’s dream come true! Postscript 4/10/2006: Cairo was sued by ShopLocal.com in order to stop if from crawling ShopLocal’s listings. The suit was settled in March 2006. Cairo went offline today. |
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Submitted by: Nicole Engard, Former Web Manager
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August 22, 2005
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Google Desktop Version 2 (Beta) |
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Today Google released Google Desktop v.2. This downloadable application (1.3 Mb) indexes the contents of your hard drive and makes it searchable. It even lets you add network drives, via the preferences page. When I blogged about the previous version, it was called Google Desktop Search. The name was changed for a reason — version 2 is not purely about search. It features the Google Sidebar, which “floats” on your desktop when active and sits on your Windows taskbar when minimized. The sidebar gives you access to your Gmail account, news headlines, RSS feeds, a scratch pad, photos, a list of frequently accessed sites, “What’s Hot” (whatever that is), stocks, and the weather. The Gmail access panel is great, I like it a lot. But the rest … they’re just eye candy. I’ve already got an RSS reader. And weather and yellow stickie Yahoo widgets on my desktop from Konfabulator that work great and are less obtrusive. (Hopefully somebody will create other useful sidebar panels soon.) Other random stuff. Even if you are a Google Desktop v.1 user, you must reindex your information when you convert to v.2. But that’s not a big deal. And it lets you take advantage of the Browse Timeline feature, so you can see in reverse chronological order the documents that you’ve indexed. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
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Pennsylvania Dockets |
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Need to do a Pennsylvania docket search? You can do Supreme, Commonwealth, Superior and select Common Pleas docket searches at your personal computer. Check out the Appellate Court Docket Sheets. |
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Submitted by: Nancy Garner, Head of Information & Research Services
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The Last Detective |
 By Robert CraisWhile Lucy is away on business and her ten-year-old son Ben is staying with Elvis Cole, the boy vanishes without a trace. When the kidnappers call, it’s not for ransom, but for a promise to punish Cole for past sins he claims he didn’t commit. In a world where dangerous men commit crimes beyond all reckoning, one of those men is calling Elvis Cole to war. Library Record • Borrow it • Buy it • More Titles |
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Submitted by: Malgorzata Pawska, Web Content Coordinator
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