Month: April 2005

Last week HeinOnline released the first 100 titles in its new Legal Classics Library. The library, which contains more than 300,000 pages, contains landmark legal works from the late 18th through the mid 20th centuries. Titles include Blackstone’s Commentaries (1803), Cardozo’s Growth of the Law (1924), and Story’s first edition of Commentaries on the Constitution …

Annotated New York Times from blogrunner is a new resource that tracks blog posts discussing articles that appear in the New York Times. It also offers a hundreds of topical RSS feeds for NYT articles – many more than those provided by the main NYT site. Here’s a sampling from the “L’s” – Law and …

Sunday’s Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has an article about a new book called, “Weird Wisconsin,” co-written by Madison law librarian and “student of weirdology,” Richard Hendricks. According to Hendricks: “We are the weirdest state,” he says. “We’re outside the mainstream. The early settlers here were a motley crew running away from somewhere else. Malcontents came here for …

Readers of WisBlawg know that last week was National Library Week. At the UW Law Library we held a number of events, including daily contests, workshop and displays. On Wednesday we held our first ever Stump the Law Library Staff contest. We received 9 questions, a combination of faculty, staff, and students. I’m happy to …

As part of our National Library Week celebration at the UW Law Library, today I presented a workshop for our students, faculty and staff on Staying Current in Less Time: Blogs, RSS & Alert Services. Because I thought that others might find it useful also – and because I’ve been anxious to try out podcasting, …

1234Tips is a new blog for Time Matters users. It offers “step-by-step instructions showing how to get more out of Time Matters software.” The blog is hosted by Active Practice LLC.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that two Milwaukee companies have been named to Inc. magazine’s “Inner City 100,” an annual ranking of high-growth companies in the nation’s distressed urban centers. The two companies are: HMB Contractors Inc., an excavating and demolition firm that began life a decade ago by plowing snow from residential driveways, and …

Here are the answers to yesterday’s UW Law Library National Library Week Law School Trivia contest: 1. In its history, where has the Law School NOT been located? Answer: C In a log cabin 2. What name did law students give to the gargoyle, saved as a memento of the original building, when the new …

Soon, podcasting enthusiasts will be able to textually search podcast audio recordings with Podscope from TVEyes. From the announcement: TVEyes, the real-time broadcast search provider, today announced Podscope®, the first engine to search within a Podcast. TVEyes’ Podscope, which makes every word searchable within a podcast, enables the audio indexing of podcast content, which is …

If you haven’t seen it yet, give Blawg Review a look. Among other things, it features a weekly roundup of posts from the blawgosphere. Here’s how it works: people submit blog posts that they feel are particularly clever or informative. The posts are then reviewed and commented upon by that week’s Blawg Review host blog. …