Month: June 2005

From the GovDoc-L listserv: The University of North Texas Libraries recently announced the availability of a new online archive of Congressional Research Service Reports. The site provides integrated, searchable access to many of the full-text CRS reports that have been available on the Web since 1990. Thus far over 6500 reports have been captured, on …

Dale Tincher of Consultwebs.com has put together a useful list of considerations for law firms who are contemplating starting a blog. Blogging is not for everyone, he warns. In his article, Law Firm Blogs – Hip or Hype?, he notes: Properly developed blogs can be very effective. Unfortunately, the majority of law firm blogs are …

Today’s Wisconsin State Journal has an interesting article about ‘The CSI Effect’ on Real Juries. … Among some prospective jurors, the popularity of TV shows that make heroes out of forensic scientists has produced a spinoff of its own: Authorities have dubbed it “the CSI effect.” The script for this phenomenon, written by prosecutors across …

TaxAlmanac is a new tax-related wiki from Intuit. (What’s a wiki?) Almost 8000 articles have been contributed by the public. As with any wiki, you are warned to use “this website at your own risk.” Source: Stark County Law Library Blawg

In a first for Congress, the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics heard testimony this week from Astronaut John Phillips, as he orbited the Earth. Read more in the NASA feature. Source: Robert Ambrogi’s Law Sites

Here’s a fun one from the Wisconsin Historical Society: Blogs seem to be popping up everywhere. Still, Father Jacques Marquette (1637-1675) is not someone you’d normally associate with the latest trends in technology. The venerated missionary seems an unlikely blogger. But then, he was an unlikely explorer. On May 17, 1673, two weeks shy of …

In addition to the index by branch, a statute index has recently been created for the Local Decision Access Project (LDAP). As reported earlier, LDAP makes selected decisions of the Dane Co Circuit Court judges available to the public. Eleven judges are participating in the project by contributing their decisions. The decisions are available in …

This afternoon, employees of the UW were treated to some delicious Babcock Hall ice cream in honor of State Employee Recognition Day. Cookies-n-Cream — Yummy! And what UW celebration would be complete without Bucky Badger and his ice cream cone manicure!

In our continuing series profiling databases available from Wisconsin’s public libraries, let me direct your attention to D&B Million Dollar Database Premier. This Dun & Bradstreet database contains company profiles of over a million U.S. leading public and private businesses which have $1 million or more in sales, 20 or more employees, or branches with …

From the Dane County Legal Resource Center Blawg: The Divorce Court Assistance Project is now known as the Family Court Assistance Project. The change in name reflects an expansion in the assistance offered by the project. Staffed by UW-Law School students, under the supervision of clinical law faculty, FCAP will now offer assistance with a …