Databases, E-Discovery and Criminal Law

The enduring value of the Constitution is the fundamental approach to human rights transcending time and technology. The modern complexity and variety of electronically stored information was unknown in the eighteenth century, but the elemental due process concepts forged then can be applied now. At some point, the accumulation of information surpassed the boundaries of living witnesses and paper records. The advent of computers and databases ushered in an entirely new order, giving rise to massive libraries of factual details and powerful investigative tools. But electronically collected information sources are a double-edged sword. Their accuracy and reliability are critical issues in the hands of prosecutors and their accessibility a hard-won necessity in preparing a defense

Libraries Saving Lives in Iraq

Quillen College of Medicine Medical Library, in northerneastern Tennessee, builds bridges and provides resources to medical schools in the Kurdish region of Iraq

Preserving Attorney-Client Confidentiality at the Cost of Another’s Innocence: A Systemic Approach

When a client admits to her lawyer that she is responsible for a crime that someone else has been charged with, it alters the geometry of the attorney-client relationship. A third party has now entered the room triangulating the lawyer\u27s responsibilities to her client, to the innocent party and to the justice system. The idea of revealing a client\u27s private confession is anathema to lawyers trained to carefully guard their clients\u27 secrets. Fidelity to the client, preservation of confidences, and the right to counsel strongly militate in favor of nondisclosure. On the other hand, an innocent person is facing a wrongful prosecution, incarceration and, in some cases, execution. The pressures to protect the confessing client while at the same time preventing harm to a nonclient from a wrongful conviction are at the heart of a complex ethical and practical conundrum. The ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct allow discretionary disclosure where the lawyer believes that a third party faces reasonably certain death or substantial bodily harm. And two states have gone so far as to expressly include wrongful incarceration in their exceptions to confidentiality. This Article will look at the ethical pathways and the multilayered constitutional and evidentiary analyses in assessing the propriety, necessity and method of disclosure. Other options will be considered that might avoid forcing an attorney to choose between client loyalty and confidentiality or preserving an innocent nonclient from substantial harm, such as transactional immunity for the confessor. Lastly, a review of the implications for the adjudication of innocence claims and systemic reform will be conducted, along with an examination of the constitutional imperatives surrounding the attorney-client and attorney-justice relationships

Library Journal Book Reviews

Reviews of the following books: Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster. 2014 Zero Waste Solution: Untrashing the Planet One Community at a Time. 2013 A Thousand Deer: Four Generations of Hunting and the Hill Country. 2012 The Last Lost World: Ice Ages, Human Origins, and the Invention of the Pleistocene. 2012 The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian\u27s Hunt for Sustenance. 2012 The Great Disruption: How the Climate Crisis Will Change Everything. 2011 Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life. 2009 Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet. 2009 Nature\u27s Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything. 2008 What Is Life? Investigating the Nature of life in the Age of Synthetic Biology. 2008 Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. 200

Making Research Guides More Useful and More Well Used

In summer 2008, a small group of Santa Clara University librarians were charged with exploring ways of making online library research guides more user friendly and interactive. In order to know how to enhance our guides, we first asked the question, What makes a research guide useful? What follows is a detailed process of discovery. The process started with literature on guides, which suggests that research guides, particularly general subject guides, are not well used. Examining statistics for science guides supports the contention that course-specific guides are the most well used. Interviews with students told what they look for in guides. Finally, research on platforms revealed choices for nimble creation of research guides

Creating OA Engagement: Peer-Reviewed Student Journals

Interest in student peer-reviewed open-access journals is beginning to grow. Our presentation will explore what it takes to produce such a journal and what it delivers in terms of student experience. We begin with an overview of the value of student research. We will also address student involvement in the Scholarly Communication process, as presented in ACRL’s publication Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy. We will look at three OA peer-reviewed student journals. For each, we will learn the motivations to create such publications and how faculty advisors and editors determine their audience. Questions will include: breadth (regional, national, international); structure and process of the journal; how editors and peer-reviewers are chosen and their work evaluated; what are the criteria for articles; what is the acceptance rate; what is the peer-edit process; are peer reviewers trained and, if so, how; how much oversight do faculty advisors have; and how much time do student editors and peer reviewers spend per week. More subjectively, we will find out what the benefits are for student editors and peer reviewers; the sustainability of a student peer-reviewed journal; what improvements would they would make, and what advice they would give to others. The three journals we will highlight are: Undergraduate Economic Review, Illinois Wesleyan University Tapestries: Interwoven Voices of Local and Global Identities, Macalester College Illuminare: A Student Journal in Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Studies, Indiana Universit

Scholarly Communication: Solving a Global Crisis - Strutin

This is part of a presentation from the 2008 12th Biennial CARL Conference. It highlights a step-by-step series of events and communications taken toward introducing new publishing models to faculty at Santa Clara University. Other presentations from this CARL panel are available at: http://carl-acrl.org/Archives/ConferencesArchive/Conference08/during/breakout.htm