Keeping Up with New Legal Titles

A book review column featuring recent titles related to law and/or librarianship

Keeping Up with New Legal Titles

A book review column featuring recent titles related to law and/or librarianship

Handle with Care: Benefits and Drawbacks of Volunteers in the Library

This New and Noteworthy book review column focuses on resources about volunteer management in school, public, academic, and special libraries

Outskirts of Distant Galaxies In Absorption

QSO absorption spectroscopy provides a sensitive probe of both the neutral medium and diffuse ionized gas in the distant Universe. It extends 21cm maps of gaseous structures around low-redshift galaxies both to lower gas column densities and to higher redshifts. Combining galaxy surveys with absorption-line observations of gas around galaxies enables comprehensive studies of baryon cycles in galaxy outskirts over cosmic time. This Chapter presents a review of the empirical understanding of the cosmic neutral gas reservoir from studies of damped Lya absorbers (DLAs). It describes the constraints on the star formation relation and chemical enrichment history in the outskirts of distant galaxies from DLA studies. A brief discussion of available constraints on the ionized circumgalactic gas from studies of lower column density Lya absorbers and associated ionic absorption transitions is presented at the end.Comment: 45 pages, 7 figures, invited review, Book chapter in "Outskirts of Galaxies", Eds. J. H. Knapen, J. C. Lee and A. Gil de Paz, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Springer, in pres

Back to the Classics: A Library Leader’s Basic Management Bookshelf

This New and Noteworthy book review column summarizes four general classic management titles which may be useful to library leaders and managers

Book Review: Conquest in Cyberspace: National Security and Information Warfare

This is the Book Review column for the JDFSL. It is an experiment to broaden the services that the journal provides to readers, so we are anxious to get your reaction. Is the column useful and interesting? Should we include more than one review per issue? Should we also review products? Do you have suggested books/products for review and/or do you want to write a review? All of this type of feedback -- and more -- is appreciated. Please feel free to send comments to Gary Kessler ([email protected]) or Glenn Dardick ([email protected])

Muddled Memory,Assorted Abolitionists, and Experimental Emancipation

With the new year, the Civil War Book Review has undergone a few changes. You may have noticed that we\u27ve adjusted our cover to accommodate a new, regular column, Civil War Treasures, penned by Leah Wood Jewett. The new column will highlight recent Civil War manuscript acquisitions by the Lou...

Book Review: No Place To Hide

This issue presents the second Book Review column for the JDFSL. It is an experiment to broaden the services that the journal provides to readers, so we are anxious to get your reaction. Is the column useful and interesting? Should we include more than one review per issue? Should we also review products? Do you have suggested books/products for review and/or do you want to write a review? All of this type of feedback -- and more -- is appreciated. Please feel free to send comments to Gary Kessler ([email protected]) or Glenn Dardick ([email protected])

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association 51:1 (2015)- Contents

BOOK REVIEW 4 A Psycholegal Deskbook for Bench and Bar: Book Review of Forensic Assessments in Criminal and Civil Law. ARTICLES 8 The Gatekeeper’s Toolbox: A Survey on Judicial Handling of Expert-Reliability Motions. 16 Using Third-Party Information in Forensic Mental-Health Assessment: A Critical Review. 36 What’s (Who You) Love Got to Do with It? Should Sexual Orientation Be a Permissible Basis for Peremptory Challenges?. DEPARTMENTS 2 Editor’s Note. 3 President’s Column. 48 The Resource Page