A weekly round up of library and information center news and opinions from around the world.

Library and Information Centre News – Edition 15/2018

Adobe’s PDF is 25 this year!

Adobe PDF, the technology tool none of us can live without, turned 25 on the 15th of June 2018. Used by businesses and institutions world wide to save documents of all types into PDFs has made them easily portable, attachable, viewable, printable and secure. It was and continues to be valuable and well used. Happy birthday Adobe PDF.

The Toronto Public Library pops up again

Toronto library is in the news again. This time it is about the library’s participation in the collaboration between Sidewalk Labs and the City of Toronto Archives to create a block by block browsing map of historic Toronto photographs. The Toronto Public Library provided close to 4000 images from their digital archive to include on the browse map.

AALL 2018 Conference

July 14th will be upon us before we know it and with it the start of the AALL conference to be held in Baltimore this year. Softlink hopes everyone who attends, enjoys, learns, and is inspired.

Michigan Lawyers Weekly and their “Unsung legal Heroes” program

In its second year, this program enables lawyers to vote for the unsung legal support people in their firms including their law librarians and information technologists, legal secretaries and para-legals. Lawyers are putting their votes where their mouths are in this great program instigated by Michigan Lawyers Weekly!

Legal advice for a flat fee?

Text a Lawyer, is planning a limited launch in July.  Text a Lawyer, modelled on Uber’s two app setup, enables people seeking legal advice to use an app to send a question to which the highest ranking available lawyer (on their app) “who fits the state and legal category”, will then contact the questioner via a secure chat-box. The lawyer can ask any relevant questions  needed to clarify the situation with any follow up questions from the “client” charged at $9.00 per question. A transcript of the conversation is sent to the lawyer and available to the client.