Guest blogger Keith Ann Stiverson delivers some exciting news! It is a pleasure to inform you that the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (UELMA) was introduced in Illinois on Friday, February 15 by Senator John G. Mulroe, a Democrat from the 10th District of Illinois. The bill that was introduced, …
Following wins in California and Colorado in 2012, five states have introduced UELMA in 2013 Building on last year’s successes in Colorado and California, advocates for more trustworthy online legal materials have introduced the Uniform Electric Legal Material Act (UELMA) in five more states so far in 2013. UELMA holds …
The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) is now several months into the development of a national plan for the future of the more than century-old partnership between FDLP libraries and the Government Printing Office (GPO). As planning progresses, we who support the long-term vitality of the FDLP need to do …
Great news arrived today in the April issue of the AALL Washington E-Bulletin: Colorado has enacted the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, setting an important example for other states looking to address permanent public access to official, authentic online legal materials. Governor Hickenlooper signed HB 1209 on April 26 after …
Law libraries have a critical stake in the vitality of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) and need to be involved in the forecasts and discussions now underway to chart a secure course for the future of the program. That was the central theme of a webinar sponsored by the …
Colorado is poised to become the first state in the nation to ensure the trustworthiness of its online legal materials, now that the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (UELMA) has passed both chambers of the Colorado General Assembly and been sent to Gov. John Hickenlooper for his signature. House Bill …
The years-long effort to address the reliability of online primary legal materials at the state level finally reached the floors of statehouses across the country when bills to enact the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (UELMA) (pdf, 95kb) were introduced in Tennessee, Colorado, and California over a three week period …
UELMA is the newest acronym gov docs librarians should learn to love. It stands for Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act, and it was passed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) at their annual meeting in Vail, Colorado, in July 2011. Keith Ann Stiverson, Library Director …
What is the difference between “official†and “authentic†digital legal resources, what progress is being made around the world toward authentication of legal texts online, and why does any of it matter? These questions were addressed by Claire Germain, Law Librarian at Cornell University, at the International Federation of Library …
The Chesapeake Project Legal Information Archive, a leading effort to preserve born-digital legal information, provided some fresh and startling evidence of the value of their work in a recent report. Three years after the project’s launch, 27.9 percent of the archived titles surveyed were no longer available at their original …