LIL fellows are wrapping up their terms this week! Please join us for and learn from our Fellows as they present their research involving ways we can explore and utilize technology to preserve, prepare, and present information for the common good.
Read more of "Summer Fellows Share, Join Us"private talking spaces
people want to talk on their cell phones when they’re working in the library. let’s accommodate these desires by providing secure and private talking spaces
Read more of "private talking spaces"Announcing Summer Fellows
We’re beyond thrilled to introduce our first cohort of LIL Summer Fellows. The following seven brilliant minds will be working here in the Harvard Law School Library (HLSL) for the next 12 weeks, exploring new pathways in technology, law, and libraries.
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This May, Managing Director Adam Ziegler was a guest on the Lawyerist podcast, discussing recent goings-on at the Library Innovation Lab.
Read more of "Adam talks LIL on the Lawyerist Podcast"IIPC: Two Track Thursday
A protester throwing cookies at the parliament.
Here are some things that caught our ear this fine Thursday at the International Internet Preservation Consortium web archiving conference
Read more of "IIPC: Two Track Thursday"LIL at IIPC: The Story So Far
We’re halfway through the International Internet Preservation Consortium’s annual web archiving conference. Here are just a few notes from our time so far
Read more of "LIL at IIPC: The Story So Far"LIL at IIPC: Noticing Reykjavik
Matt, Jack, and Anastasia are in Reykjavik this week, along with Genève Campbell of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, for the annual meeting of the International Internet Preservation Consortium. We’ll have lots of details from IIPC coming soon, but for this first post we wanted to share some of the things we’re noticing here in Reykjavik.
Read more of "LIL at IIPC: Noticing Reykjavik"How We’re Freeing the Law, Part 1: Books
Adi Kamdar is a 1L at Harvard Law School and our embedded reporter on the Free the Law project. In this first post, he tracks the progress of a casebook through our scanning process from start to finish.
Harvard Law Library is one of the few collections with nearly every law reporter—roughly 40,000 books in total. The Free the Law project’s goal is to put the court decisions inside these volumes online, so anyone can access the precedents that shape the American legal system. Right now, the project is about halfway through, and within the next couple years they’ll have completed this monumental task.
But how exactly does a book become a byte? And what happens to these physical texts after they’ve been digitized?
Read more of "How We're Freeing the Law, Part 1: Books"Free the Law Wintersession Sprint
TL;DR: We are running a two week data mining sprint from January 4–15, 2016, open to current Harvard students, based on early access to a brand new data set of American caselaw. To apply, send a resume and brief statement of interest to jcushman at law dot harvard dot edu.
Read more of "Free the Law Wintersession Sprint"Link roundup November 30, 2015
This is the good stuff.
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