Coursesmart, a company which publishes electronic versions of textbooks, has recently announced that their content will be made available for the iPhone. Coursesmart has been selling textbooks (largely undergraduate materials) since 2007. This may be an interesting development in the seemingly inevitable transition to electronic casebooks in law school classrooms. Read More ...

The Heafey Law Library now has a presence on Twitter. You can follow us here: http://www.twitter.com/heafeylibrary. Our blog, Heafey Headnotes, will automatically update content on our Twitter account. You can follow the law school's general Twitter account here: http://www.twitter.com/santaclaralaw. Read More ...

Technology advocates have long predicted that we are approaching a tipping point where mobile electronic devices can effectively replace print materials. A number of legal scholars, and law school IT specialists, point to a future where casebooks are collated electronically and then transferred to a mobile device -- either a cellphone or an e-book reader. Read More ...

The law librarians at Heafey are delighted to announce that they have started a new cell phone reference service. You may ask information, or simple reference questions, by sending a text message to 66746 beginning with the word "bronco". The librarians at Heafey will then answer these questions via a text message that you will receive on your phone. If you are a cell phone aficionado and need a quick answer to a question, this might be a great service for you!! Read More ...

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an excellent article, written by Yale librarian Todd Gilman, on how educators need to understand the difference between being computer-literate and research-literate. The article describes how many assume that young students do not need extensive research assistance due to their pervasive interaction with online media. Read More ...

If you already have an account on Twitter, you may be interested in registering with the new Twitter-based service, TweetLaw. It aggregates Twitter feeds from registered users, and is aimed exclusively towards the legal community. You can registered under "lawyers", "law students", "legal librarians", and a variety of other categories. It may be a great way to network with other legal professionals. Read More ...

The library technology conference, Computers In Libraries, is currently wrapping up in Arlington, Virginia. Here is a list of interesting technologies that was presented by Aaron Schmidt for his "Best of the Web 2009" presentation. As always, techie librarians have done great work tracking and gathering these nascent technologies. Here is a list of the items covered in the presentation. Read More ...

An interesting new website called Nationmaster compiles data on a variety of issues and organizes them so that countries can be compared with each other Read More ...

The Library of Congress has created a number of RSS feeds and email alerts for their collections -- including the Law Library of Congress. Read More ...

Google Scholar indexing law journals available on Heinonline Read More ...

introduction of LibX for SCU Read More ...

add the law librarians as a friend in your chat client Read More ...