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Preserving & Ensuring Long-Term Access To Digitally Born Legal Information, Sarah Rhodes, Dana Neacsu

Digital Preservation Presentations

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Archive-It @ Georgetown Law: What We're Doing & What We Wish We Were Doing, Roger Skalbeck, Sarah Rhodes

Digital Preservation Presentations

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The Chesapeake Project: Preserving The Digital Future, Anne Cassidy

Digital Preservation Publications

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Capturing The Elusive Government Document Before It Disappears: The Chesapeake Project, Katherine Baer, Mary Jo Lazun

Digital Preservation Presentations

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A Tale Of Three Libraries: Key Factors In Successful Online Collaborative Projects, Dee Dee Dockendorf, Mary Jo Lazun, Sarah Rhodes

Digital Preservation Presentations

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The Chesapeake Project: Preserving “Born Digital” Documents, Dee Dee Dockendorf

Digital Preservation Publications

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The Chesapeake Project: A Collaborative Model For Preserving And Providing Permanent Access To "Born Digital" Web Publications, Sarah Rhodes

Digital Preservation Presentations

The proliferation of legal materials published directly to the Web with no print counterpart poses a new and unprecedented challenge for librarians, archivists, and information professionals concerned about the long-term preservation of legal resources. In response to this preservation challenge, the Georgetown Law Library, in collaboration with the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia, launched The Chesapeake Project in March 2007. A two-year pilot digital preservation program, The Chesapeake Project utilizes a shared digital archive in order to stabilize, preserve, and provide permanent access to legal materials published on the World Wide Web. The intention of the project is …

The Chesapeake Project: One Model For Digital Preservation, Sarah Rhodes

Digital Preservation Presentations

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Here's To Your (Digital Archive's) Good Health: Applying Trac And Other Evaluation Parameters To A Local Digital Preservation Project, Sarah Rhodes

Digital Preservation Presentations

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Flexible Work Arrangements: Improving Job Quality And Workforce Stability For Low-Wage Workers And Their Employers, Jessica Glenn, Liz Watson

Published Reports

In 2009, workers and their families across the country felt the impact of serious economic downturn, with unemployment reaching a 26-year high. While recent news suggests things may be improving, we cannot forget that for many low-wage and hourly workers -- who now represent over a quarter of the U.S. workforce -- the recession only exacerbated their ongoing struggle to hold down quality jobs while caring for their families.

Low-wage workers face many of the same challenges that the rest of us face in reconciling our work, family and personal lives, but for many of these workers, it's simply a …

Friends Newsletter, September, 2009, Georgetown University Law Center

Edward Bennett Williams Law Library Friends Newsletter

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The Medical Library Association Annual Meeting: How Technology Is Changing Medicine And May Change The Law, Kumar Percy Jayasuriya

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Blogger Perspectives On Digital Preservation: Attributes, Behaviors, And Preferences, Carolyn Hank

Future of Today's Legal Scholarship Symposium

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Law Library Of Congress, Donna Scheeder

Future of Today's Legal Scholarship Symposium

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Preserving Legal Blogs, Linda Frueh

Future of Today's Legal Scholarship Symposium

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Preservation Tools For Blogs, Victoria Ann Reich

Future of Today's Legal Scholarship Symposium

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Gpo's Federal Digital System (Fdsys) Briefing, Mike Wash

Future of Today's Legal Scholarship Symposium

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Flexible Work Arrangements And Low-Wage Work: Presentation By Liz Watson, Liz Watson

Conferences, Panels, and Events

Presentation given by Liz Watson, Legislative Counsel, Workplace Flexibility 2010, during a briefing titled "Flexible Work Arrangements and Low-Wage Work." This event was held on July 8, 2009, and presented by Workplace Flexibility 2010 and the New America Foundation.

Improving Work Schedules In Hourly Jobs, Susan J. Lambert

Conferences, Panels, and Events

Slides of presentation given by Susan J. Lambert, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, at a briefing titled "Flexible Work Arrangements and Low-Wage Work." This event was held on Wednesday, July 8, 2009, and presented by Workplace Flexibility 2010 and the New America Foundation.

A Law Library Development Project In Iraq: Looking Back Two Years Later, Kimberli Kelmor

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Sometimes you get a chance to work on a project so complex, even you don't come to fully understand its impact until years later. At least that has been the experience for me regarding the opportunity I had to work in Iraq with the International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI) from February 2004 to January 1, 2006. As I reported in a previous essay, IHRLI, an institute of the DePaul University College of Law headed by Cherif Bassiouni, received a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Higher Education and Development (HEAD) contract to work with three Iraqi law schools.' …

A Summary Of Data From Families And Work Institute’S National Study Of Employers (2008), Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Memos and Fact Sheets

This memo presents data from the Families and Work Institute’s 2008 National Study of Employers describing the similarities in access to flexible work arrangements (“FWAs”) for employees of small and large employers. The 2008 National Study of Employers (“2008 Study”) provides a comparison of the availability of 12 types of FWAs to employees of small (50-99 employees) and large (over 1,000 employees) employers.

Flexible Work Arrangements (Fwas): Possible Public Policy Approaches, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Memos and Fact Sheets

There is a range of ways in which public policy can help workplace flexibility become a norm in the American workplace. Indeed, the various bills introduced in the 110th Congress to increase access to FWAs, one component of workplace flexibility, represent a wide range of public policy approaches.

This document categorizes and characterizes these public policy approaches to help clarify the options that might be pursued to increase access to FWAs.

Friends Newsletter, May, 2009, Georgetown University Law Center

Edward Bennett Williams Law Library Friends Newsletter

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The Legislative History Of Fefcwa And Feptcea, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Charts and Summaries of State, U.S., and Foreign Laws and Regulations

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Statements Illustrating The Legislative Intent Of These Laws, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Memos and Fact Sheets

Based on statements in the legislative history, these laws were meant to provide:

1. Overarching Benefits in the Current Economy
2. Benefits to Families
3. Benefits to Management
4. Equality for Women
5. Protection of the Environment

Telework In The Federal Government: The Overview Memo, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Memos and Fact Sheets

Flexible Work Arrangements (FWAs) alter the time and/or place that employees work on a regular basis in a manner that is manageable and predictable for both employees and employers.1 Telework, also called telecommuting, refers to an FWA that enables an employee to work from an alternative place to the employer’s usual worksite, typically home or a satellite work center. Telework technically refers to work performed with the use of a telecommunications connection to the workplace (e.g., computer, telephone), but the term is also

An Overview Of Early Laws Increasing Access To Flexible Scheduling And Reduced Hours In The Federal Workforce, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Memos and Fact Sheets

The Federal Employees Flexible and Compressed Work Schedules Act (FEFCWA) authorizes, but does not require, agencies to offer alternative work schedules to employees. FEFCWA permits employees to designate non-traditional arrival and departure times, centered around core agency hours, and to experiment with four-day workweeks or other compressed schedules. Under the law, implementation and employee utilization of alternative work schedules depends on management support and leadership.

Labor Standards Regarding Flexible Work Arrangements In The U.S. And Abroad, Workplace Flexibility 2010, Georgetown University Law Center

Charts and Summaries of State, U.S., and Foreign Laws and Regulations

A chart of labor standards regarding flexible work arrangements in the U.S. and abroad (United Kingdom, New Zealand, New South Wales, Netherlands, and Germany). Flexible Work Arrangements (FWAs) alter the time and/or place that work is conducted on a regular basis -- in a manner that is as manageable and predictable as possible for both employees and employers.

Global Climate Change: A Civic Republican Moment For Achieving Broader Changes In Environmental Behavior, Hope M. Babcock

Georgetown Law Faculty Lectures and Appearances

These comments were given by Professor Hope Babcock on April 17, 2008 for the fourteenth annual Lloyd K. Garrison Lecture on Environmental Law at Pace Law School.

In this lecture, Professor Babcock argues that the problem confronting us is that we are nearing the end of achieving future gains in pollution abatement from traditional sources and the pollution that remains is largely caused by individual behavior. This she says, is true even though polls show that people consistently rate protecting the environment among their highest priorities, say they are willing to pay more to protect environmental resources, and indeed, faithfully …

A Plea For Reality, Roy A. Schotland

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Legend has it that a long-ago Chief Justice of Texas said, “No judicial selection system is worth a damn.” This view has been all but proven by American experience; nothing else in American law matches this subject in terms of the volume of written debate and endless sweat spent working for change. The selection system for federal judges is unchanged but far from untroubled, and

the States have never used a common method . . . . [O]ne can identify almost as many different methods . . . as there are States in the Union . . . . Moreover, …