Email to Sue Burch regarding open bar receptions at SEAALL Annual Meetings, April 2, 1998

An email from Steven Hinckley to Sue Burch and others concerning whether open bars or cash bars should be at SEAALL Annual Meetings

Letter to Committee Members welcoming them to the Publicity and Public Relations Committee, September 16, 1987

A letter from Steven Hinckley welcoming members to the Publicity and Public Relations Committee. Enclosed is a list of committee members for 1987-1988

Letter to Timothy Coggins regarding the SEAALL Annual Meeting, April 20, 1987

A letter from Steven Hinckley to Timothy Coggins regarding the SEAALL Annual Meeting

Email to Catherine Lemann and Herb Cihak regarding proposed amendments to the SEAALL Bylaws, 1999

An email from Steven Hinckley to Catherine Lemann and Herb Cihak detailing Hinckley\u27s proposed amendments to the SEAALL Bylaws

Your Money or Your Speech: The Children’s Internet Protection Act and the Congressional Assault on the First Amendment in Public Libraries

CIPA is, in fact, one of the most sweeping restrictions on constitutionally protected speech ever invoked by the United States government disingenuously presented as an uncontroversial funding decision. By mandating the use of technology that cannot effectively eliminate obscenity and child pornography without compromising a great deal of protected speech, and by attempting to achieve indirectly content restrictions that the courts have held Congress cannot accomplish through direct statutory proscriptions, CIPA offends the First Amendment as surely as any prior failed attempt by the legislature to restrict Internet speech

Redefining Academic Law Library Excellence in a Technological Age: From Evolution to Revolution

This article focuses on the rapidly changing standards of academic law library excellence as the ready availability and diversity of information technologies and digital collections supplant traditional print collections as the determinative measurement of library quality. The author challenges the legal and law library professions to discard traditional qualitative standards (e.g., print volume and title holdings) and to embrace standards that recognize the importance of meaningful access to information that is not tied to physical ownership or location

Redefining Academic Law Library Excellence in a Technological Age: From Evolution to Revolution

This article focuses on the rapidly changing standards of academic law library excellence as the ready availability and diversity of information technologies and digital collections supplant traditional print collections as the determinative measurement of library quality. The author challenges the legal and law library professions to discard traditional qualitative standards (e.g., print volume and title holdings) and to embrace standards that recognize the importance of meaningful access to information that is not tied to physical ownership or location

Bounds and Beyond: A Need to Reevaluate the Right of Prisoner Access to the Courts

There is little doubt that a prisoner\u27s most important right is access to the courts. Without access, prisoners have neither a forum in which to question the conditions and constitutionality of their confinement, nor an arena in which to seek vindication of other alleged rights violations. Therefore, the right of access is the foundation upon which other prisoners\u27 rights are built

Your Money or Your Speech: The Children\u27s Internet Protection Act and the Congressional Assault on the First Amendment in Public Libraries

This article examines the inherent conflict between This article examines the inherent conflict between two Congressional approaches to public access to the Internet - the provision of federal funding support to schools and public libraries to ensure broad access to online information regardless of financial means, and federal restrictions on children\u27s use of school and public library computers to access content that the government feels could be harmful to them. It analyzes the efficacy and constitutionality of the Children\u27s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), Congress\u27s attempt to use its powers of the purse to control objectionable online content in the very institutions it has used to promote equality of Internet access, particularly for children. The article looks first at Congress\u27s early attempts to directly control categories of online speech through the passage of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) and the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), two statutes that proved to be so insensitive to classic First Amendment principles that they were essentially dead on arrival at the courthouse. The article then focuses on Congress\u27s strategic shift away from direct proscriptions of online content and toward control of Internet speech indirectly through the use of its spending power. CIPA attempts to regulate online content by making the distribution of Universal Service Fund (E-Rate) and related federal school and library technology funds contingent upon the recipient institution\u27s agreement to place filtering software on all Internet-accessible computers. The article examines the history of Congress\u27s use of its spending power as a regulatory tool, and takes issue with Congress\u27s description of CIPA\u27s funding conditions as a routine use of that power immune from First Amendment constraints. Arguing that public libraries are limited public forums subsidized by the government for the express purpose of facilitating broad private expression, the article recommends judicial review of CIPA based on the same strict scrutiny principles used by the Supreme Court in Rosenberger and Velazquez to invalidate similar government funding decisions that forced viewpoint and content-based regulation of private speech. The article contends that Congress has not met its burden under strict scrutiny of showing that Internet filtering in public libraries is constitutionally necessary to achieve the government\u27s interests in protecting children, and argues that software filters cannot possibly be applied without compromising a great deal of library patrons\u27 constitutionally protected online speech. The article concludes that, stripped of the facade of an innocent use of Congress\u27s spending power, the Children\u27s Internet Protection Act is merely the Computer Decency Act and the Child Online Protection Act in disguise - yet another clumsy congressional attempt to censor Internet content without sufficient concern for the damage it will do to the First Amendment rights of library patrons, many of whom use libraries as the only place where they can gain access to the incredible wealth of diverse information available on the Internet

Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors for Acoustic Emission and Transmission Detection Applied to Robotic NDE in Structural Health Monitoring

Distributed acoustic emission sensors are used in structural health monitoring (SHM) for the detection of impacts and/or strain, in real time. Secondary damage may result from the initial impact or strain. This damage may include surface pitting, erosion, or cracking. This type of damage may not be detectable by the SHM system, specifically in passive fiber optic based sensing systems. The integration of non-destructive evaluation (NDE) by robots into SHM enables the detection and monitoring of a wider variety of damage. Communicating via acoustic transmissions represents a wireless communications method for use by NDE inspection robots to communicate with an integrated SHM system that does not require any additional hardware, as piezoelectric transducers are commonly used in the NDE of materials. In this paper, we demonstrate the detection of both acoustic emissions and transmissions with a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor. The acoustic communications channel comprises of a piezoelectric transmitter, an aluminum panel as the transmission medium, and a FBG receiver. Phase Shift Keying was used to encode the acoustic transmissions. Results for the frequency and transient response of the channel are presented