Month: January 2005

Get ready for a trip down memory lane, Milwaukeeans. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Special Collections department (my alma mater) has compiled an interesting collection entitled Greetings from Milwaukee. The collection contains digital images of the …

The Machine-Assisted Reference Section of the American Library Association has released their 2004 picks for the Best Free Reference Web Sites. Of particular interest may be: Pew Internet & American Life According to its mission …

Although it’s not new, I’ve recently learned about a service called Courthouse News Service (CNS). A news wire for lawyers, CNS employs a network of correspondents who file daily reports covering new appellate rulings, new …

Bloggers are on the cover of a recent issue of Fortune magazine. The full text of the article, Why You Can’t Ignore Bloggers is available online. From the article: But whatever the topic, the discussion …

Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites reports that Medina County (OH) Common Pleas Judge James L. Kimbler is using the Internet to enhance public access to his courtroom. Several months ago, Kimbler began videotaping the sentencing proceedings he …

Update 1/18/05: Jennifer Aleknavage, Communications Manager for LexisNexis alerted me that there are some additional differences between the LexisNexis AlaCarte product and LexisNexis by Credit Card. According to her, LexisNexis AlaCarte: is targeted for small- …

From an article appearing in Findlaw for Legal Professionals: No one took any notice of the tall, slim man who appeared Tuesday for jury duty. Had he worn his black robe, Supreme Court Justice Stephen …

For those of you using a newsreader such as Bloglines to read this blog and other blogs via RSS, you might be interested to learn that Yahoo! Finance is now offering company news via RSS. …

LLRX.com has recently updated its excellent collection of links to court rules, forms and dockets. It includes links to over 1,400 sources for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets. You can browse to …

The January 2005 issue of WSLL @ Your Service is now available from the Wisconsin State Law Library. Featured are librarian Julie Tessmer’s visit to Serbia as law library consultant for the National Center for …