From Disability to Usability in Online Instruction

This article is a primer on the work needed to ensure accessibility in online instruction. It discusses different disabilities, reviews relevant laws and standards, and explores the relationship between accessibility and the principles of universal design. The article introduces a number of best practices for creating accessibility in online instruction

Accessibility

Susan deMaine\u27s contribution to the open access textbook, Introduction to Law Librarianship, is chapter 3, Accessibility. Abstract: Equitable access, which includes access for people with disabilities, is included in the first principle of the ethical codes of both the American Association of Law Libraries and the American Library Association. Accessibility in law libraries that are open to the public is an especially keen concern because it implicates access to justice and government information, both of which are key to a successful democracy. This chapter will introduce concepts that help us think productively about accessibility and explore accessibility issues in both physical and digital spaces, considering a few issues unique to law libraries.https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/facbooks/1268/thumbnail.jp

The Hemp Controversy: Can Industrial Hemp Save Kentucky?

In the wake of litigation over the responsibility of tobacco companies for harm caused by cigarettes and in the face of increased public hostility toward smoking, Kentucky\u27s tobacco farmers are apprehensive about the future. While not all growers depend entirely on tobacco for their income, the potential shrinking of the tobacco market will have serious ramifications throughout the state. Some farmers are turning to organic vegetable farming, or to com and soybeans as alternative crops, but the potential of industrial hemp as an option remains uncertain. Touted by many as the answer to the tobacco farmer\u27s quandary, industrial hemp remains an illegal crop under both federal\u27 and state law Furthermore, it is not entirely clear how large a market exists for industrial hemp and whether it would be a profitable crop for Kentucky farmers. This Note attempts to discern whether current laws should be changed to allow the cultivation of industrial hemp in Kentucky It begins with a discussion of the agronomy of industrial hemp and its relationship to marijuana m Part I. Part II addresses the environmental benefits that hemp offers. The current state of world markets and production of industrial hemp, along with estimates of profitability of Kentucky-grown hemp, is detailed in Part III. Part IV\u27 explores the long history of industrial hemp globally, in the United States, and in Kentucky where it was a staple crop for many years. The current and potentially changing legal status of industrial hemp at the federal level, m Kentucky, and m other states is offered in Parts V, VI, and VII. Part VIII addresses the enforcement and public perception problems posed by legalizing industrial hemp given its ties to marijuana. Part IX concludes with a proposal for Kentucky as it explores possible futures for industrial hemp

Works of Eleanor D. Kinney

Eleanor D. Kinney was a prolific scholar throughout her thirty-five years as a professor at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. She authored or co-authored more than seventy-five journal articles, publishing in numerous peer-reviewed medical and health journals, as well as law reviews. She wrote three books, edited a fourth, and published nine book chapters Professor Kinney’s work has been cited in at least ten court opinions. Her work has garnered more than 700 citations in law review articles, and nearly 200 in medical and health policy journals. The influence of her work places her within the top 1,000 most cited legal scholars.1 Although a scholar of many aspects of health care law, Professor Kinney’s work on Medicare and Medicaid was particularly influential. Her 1990 report to the Administrative Conference of the United States, reprinted in the Ohio State Law Journal under the title Rule and Policy Making for the Medicaid Program: A Challenge to Federalism, helped establish her national reputation as an expert in the field. Just over a decade later, her Guide to Medicare Coverage Decision-Making and Appeals, became an essential tool for those practicing in administrative health law. After her retirement, she continued to publish in this area, with additional books appearing in 2015 and 2017. Professor Kinney also developed an interest in health law at the international level when the idea of an “international human right to health” attracted notice. Several of her most cited articles address this right, and she went on to write about related subjects such as global responses to health crises, comparisons between various national constitutions’ provisions regarding health and health care, and the differences in laws regarding information for consumers. She also wrote about the development of international administrative law more generally. Medical malpractice and its reform were other areas of interest and influence for Professor Kinney. Over the course of her career, she published more than a dozen articles and book chapters in this area, and her 2002 book Protecting American Health Care Consumers added a discussion of medical malpractice concerns to the conversation, ongoing at the time, about patient protection and reforms in policymaking. In Protecting American Health Care Consumers, she also looked closely at procedural reform and uninsured health care consumers, describing the impending crisis as a “thunderhead on the horizon.” Prior to Professor Kinney’s work, patient protection discussions largely ignored the uninsured. Notsurprisingly, when the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010 to address the crisis and make insurance available to everyone, Professor Kinney’s scholarship kept up with the changes; although retired as a faculty member, she published The Affordable Care Act and Medicare in Comparative Context with Cambridge University Press as well as multiple law review articles on the ACA. Her last article, published in 2018, was written in response to the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016. Her interest in health law and her productivity simply never flagged. The following bibliography is a nearly exhaustive list of Professor Kinney’s publications, excluding only the many short updates (a few paragraphs each) she wrote for the American Hospital Association’s Health Law Vigil newsletter when she worked in the AHA’s Office of Legal and Regulatory Affairs in the early 1980

Access to the Justices' Papers: A Better Balance

Appendix at [LINK]http://hdl.handle.net/1805/14462[/LINK]With the exception of official court records, the papers generated by the Supreme Court justices in their work for the Court are and have always been considered private property. As a result, the justices’ treatment of these documents is idiosyncratic, ranging from outright destruction to lengthy restrictions to quick release. Adding the perspective of archivists and librarians, this paper explores the history of the justices’ papers and questions of access, the public’s interest in understanding the Court and its decisions, and the effect of the justices’ papers on scholarship and popular research. Several options for encouraging greater openness are proposed

The 2014 Leadership Academy: Six Months Out - How are Participants Using what they Learned?

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams These wise words were one of many lessons that the attendees of the 2014 AALL Leadership Academy took home with them following two full days of hands-on learning this past April. Now, a little more than six months later, Spectrum catches up with a few of the Academy attendees to find out how they are using what they learned and the ways that the Academy has affected their professional (and personal) lives

Access for All: A review of “Law Libraries, Government Transparency, and the Internet,” a presentation by Daniel Schuman of the Sunlight Foundation at the ALL-SIS Meeting, July 22, 2012

Attendees at the ALL-SIS Breakfast and Business Meeting at the AALL Annual Meeting had the pleasure of hearing from Daniel Schuman of the Sunlight Foundation speak on “Law Libraries, Government Transparency, and the Internet.” The Sunlight Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase access to federal government information resources through advocacy and the development of information technology tools

Using Digital Badges to Enhance Research Instruction in Academic Libraries

Professor DeMaine\u27s contribution is Chapter 5: Using Digital Badges to Enhance Research Instruction in Academic Libraries.https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/facbooks/1217/thumbnail.jp