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Philadelphia Election Information |
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Need to find out where to cast your vote in the upcoming election or if your candidates won? Go to the Committee of Seventy's web site for complete election day information and posted results. |
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Submitted by: Nancy Garner, Head of Information & Research Services
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County Courthouses of Pennsylvania: A Guide |
 By Oliver P. WilliamsThis is a guidebook to country courthouses, courthouse squares, and their immediate surroundings in the state of Pennsylvania. Its genesis was a personal fascination with the monumental Victorian courthouses in the small towns of the Midwest, which began in the 1950s. Library Record • Borrow it • Buy it • More Titles |
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Submitted by: Malgorzata Pawska, Web Content Coordinator
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October 25, 2007
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Call Me Old and Busted … |
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… But I just don’t get the Facebook hysteria. Yesterday Microsoft threw a quarter of a billion dollars at them in order to acquire 1.6 percent of the company. That makes Facebook worth about $15 billion. And that’s also insane. Now I know that the NY Times talks about how there’s “a belief that [Facebook] is creating an important new operating system that, unlike Microsoft’s Windows, exists on the Web instead of on personal computers.” But does it seem right to you that a social networking site is valued about the same as Weyerhaeuser? Or three times more than Delta Airlines? Or seven times more than Del Monte Foods? Because, for better or worse, these companies actually *do* stuff that matters — they make the things that we build our houses with, they produce the food we eat, and they take us places where we want to go. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
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October 22, 2007
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Law Makers, Law Breakers, and Uncommon Trials |
 By Robert Aitken, Marilyn AitkenFrom the divine right of Charles I to the civil rights struggle of Rosa Parks, 25 non-fiction stories from the pages of Litigation provide a panorama of people whose actions helped form our legal system and our world. Constitution makers, Civil War enemies, Irish rebels, World War II Nazis, murder and passion, art and prejudice appear in this unique look at our legal history. Library Record • Borrow it • Buy it • More Titles |
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Submitted by: Malgorzata Pawska, Web Content Coordinator
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October 17, 2007
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hey that’s me! no joke. i think i’m being insulted … can you tell me where this was taken. |
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Back in May, a Flickr member posted this picture of a billboard he saw in Adelaide, South Australia. Apparently, Virgin Mobile had been trolling Flickr accounts, looking for images that they could use in an advertising campaign. The first person to comment, the young woman in the picture, said: “hey that’s me! no joke. i think i’m being insulted…can you tell me where this was taken.” Personally I’d be amused to discover that I was on a billboard halfway around the world. But the teen wasn’t. So the whole thing has — predictably — ended up in federal district court in Dallas four months later. She’s suing Virgin Mobile and her church youth pastor — now that’ll make for some uncomfortable moments in Sunday School! — because they didn’t ask permission to use her image. The original photo was released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license, so she’s suing them as well, because they were too vague about the rights of people in pictures. So what are the legal takeaways from all this?
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Internet Librarian
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October 15, 2007
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¿Habla usted español? |
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You don’t need to understand Spanish to use the Puerto Rico Statutes on Westlaw or Lexis. They’re in English and fully annotated. |
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Submitted by: Nancy Garner, Head of Information & Research Services
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International Practitioner’s Deskbook Series: Labor and Employment Law in the New EU Member and Candidate States |
 By Anders Etgen ReitzThis book is a practical tool for legal practitioners and in-house counsel advising clients on their foreign operations in the new EU. The book begins with an introduction to EU legislation, EU directives, and the enlargement of the European Union. Each chapter provides an overview of labor law, hiring, terms and conditions, termination, discrimination, and business transfers in the following countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovaki, Slovenia, and Turkey. A table of statutes and EU legislation completes the book. Library Record • Borrow it • Buy it • More Titles |
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Submitted by: Malgorzata Pawska, Web Content Coordinator
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October 10, 2007
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Your Newspaper is Waiting for You @ Jenkins |
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You can learn how to effectively search the newspaper and news magazine collection of over 800 titles by viewing this 8 1/2 minute tutorial. |
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Submitted by: Katrina Piechnik, Head of Technical Services
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Did you know that your membership @ Jenkins brings your favorite newspapers and news magazines to your desktop? Yes, you can October 9, 2007
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Antivirus Misconceptions and My Favorite Vestigial Organ |
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A recent study completed by McAfee and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) shows major discrepancies between what users believe they have and what they actually have when it comes to their computer’s security. From the article: “With more than 90% of respondents indicating that they were maintaining daily / weekly coverage from their antivirus software, it might be somewhat of a surprise to see that 49% of respondents were actually not running any antivirus software, or antivirus software that was not updating definitions on a daily or weekly basis.” There is also a PDF of the results of the study if you wish to read further. For those of you who woefully leave your computer out in the internet unprotected I suggest downloading a copy of AVG Antivirus Free Edition and setting up weekly updates & full system scans. You should also read and follow the Ten Commandments for Your Computer Sanity. And in completely unrelated news, scientists have apparently found the real purpose of the appendix. |
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Submitted by: Anne Baynes, Assistant Network Administrator
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October 8, 2007
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Chambermaid: A Novel |
 By Saira RaoChambermaid, debut novelist Saira Rao breaks the code of silence surrounding the clerkship and boldly takes us into the mysterious world of the third branch of U.S. government, where the leaders are not elected and can never be fired. With its biting wit and laugh-out-loud humor, this novel will change everything you think you know about how great lawyers, and great judges, are made. Library Record • Borrow it • Buy it • More Titles |
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Submitted by: Malgorzata Pawska, Web Content Coordinator
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