Year: 2004

From GPO’s Administrative Notes: GPO is working with the library community on a national digitization plan with the goal of digitizing a complete legacy collection of tangible U.S. Government publications held in libraries participating in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The objective is a digital collection available, in the public domain, for permanent public …

The National Center for State Courts has a collection of articles in its report, Future Trends in State Courts 2004. Edison Ellenberger of The E-LawLibrary Weblog offers a nice summary of the highlights: +Web Logs: Increasing Courts’ Ability to Quickly Communicate with Constituents, by Walter Latham. The author discusses some court blogs and concludes that …

If you’ve ever had to do one, you know that compiling a legislative history is no picnic. But LexisNexis has made things a little easier with their new Legislative Histories Research Tasks Page. What makes this so nice is that it gathers together on one page search boxes for commonly used legislative history resources. . …

Starting today, consumers in some states will become eligible for a free annual credit reports under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Wisconsinites, however, won’t be eligible until March 1, 2005. According to a release from the FTC: FACTA, which was enacted on December 4, 2003, …

Babelplex is a new bilingual search engine which searches the Web in two languages at once. Search results are displayed side by side. A total of eleven languages are available in Babelplex. To search, simply type in a few keywords and select a language pair (the language of your query and the language you want …

The Dane County Legal Resource Center just released DCLRC Blawg. According to DCLRC Librarian, Paula Seeger, “there’s lots of local legal and court information that doesn’t make it into our regular newsletter. By checking our blog, you’ll be able to keep up to date with the latest announcements and information on the local legal and …

As co-chair of the Blawgs Committee of the American Association of Law Libraries Computing Services Special Interest Section (that’s a mouthful!), I’m pleased to announce a new Web site for law librarians with an interest blogging, both professionally and personally. The CS-SIS Blawgs Committee site, which features a blog, forums, and wikis, was developed using …

There’s not much posted yet, but Judge Richard Posner and Professor Gary Becker have launched The Becker-Posner Blog. Richard Posner is a Judge on the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. Gary Becker is a Professor at the Graduate School of Business, The …

The December issue of the Dane Co Legal Resource Center Newsletter is now available. It includes an overview of new outreach programming for 2005.

From The E-LawLibrary Weblog: As ResearchBuzz reports, Business Wire is now offering an RSS feed in five categories. It is not available to the general public, but Ms. Calishain provides an alternative method to access Business Wire content via RSS. Below are links to some news sites that provide an RSS feed for business news. …