I couldn't help noticing that the first two pages of posts for this blog (spanning April 3rd through June 29th) have managed to generate a grand total of one comment between them ... Not a particularly good sign that this section of Minow and Hirtle's website is stirring up conversation within the library community about "issues concerning libraries and the law."
Nevertheless, I still see this site as a great resource for librarians to maintain awareness about the various legal issues/battles going on that directly affect the profession ... I could see right away that several timely and pertinent topics were being discussed by the authors, including copyright restrictions on e-books, the legality of the Library of Congress' collection of pre-1972 sound recordings, and Google's possible mishandling of user privacy.
The posts I read were not bogged down with needlessly technical jargon, or "legalese" that would make sense only to other lawyers ... Rather, all of the ideas were discussed and summarized in a clean and easy-to-understand fashion, giving readers a chance to truly digest the facts and contemplate the ramifications these cases will have (or might have in the future).
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