Month: June 2005

If you haven’t noticed, I’m a big fan of RSS. So I think it’s pretty cool that library systems are starting to offer RSS notification of items checked-out, overdue, and on-hold. Wouldn’t it be nice to get a reminder before the book you checked out is overdue? A couple of library systems in Wisconsin (Eastern …

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, “a nonprofit group of passionate people working to protect your digital rights,” has compiled a very useful web site devoted to blogger’s rights. One of the highlights of the site is a Legal Guide for Bloggers containing a collection FAQs for bloggers which cover “everything from fair use to defamation law …

On Tuesday, June 21st, UW Memorial Library’s Grants Information Collection will host a presentation focused on grants for organizations. Erika Wittlieb, coordinator of the nationwide network of Foundation Center Cooperating Collections in New York, will talk about the Foundation Center, its resources and services, and how to effectively use the foundation grantmaker database, FC Search. …

From a partnership between the National Endowment of the Humanities and the Library of Congress comes the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). Over a period of approximately 20 years, NDNP will create a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers from all the states and U.S. territories published between 1836 and 1922. This searchable database …

Wish you could go back in time to view a Web page as it looked five years ago? You just might be able to with the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. This amazing resource has archived 40 billion web pages from 1996 to a few months ago. Of course, not every page is archived – but …

PrawfsBlawg has compiled a list of law professor blogs – 103 in all. Although as Althouse points out, there are undoubtedly more. Only two out of five UW Law School professor blogs were counted. Source: Law Librarian Blog

Compared to states like New York, Wisconsin’s state court structure is fairly straightforward. The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) has compiled state court structure charts for each state. Select a state from the U.S. map to view the court structure in that state. From the chart, click on a blue court description to be …

The Business and Company Resource Center is a great database of detailed company and industry news and information available from the Milwaukee Public Library. It contains company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals from 1980 to the present. Business and Company Resource Center is available for use within City of …

Information Week reports that United Airlines has partnered with Verizon to install wireless Internet access to its fleet becoming the first domestic airline to receive FAA approval. However, it must still get approval from the Federal Communications Commission, which it hopes to receive within a few months, before the new service can officially launch. Source: …

Another Titan Arum, the giant flower nicknamed “corpse flower” for it’s pungent aroma, is set to bloom soon at the UW Botany Garden and Greenhouses – right next door to the UW Law School. As of yesterday it measured an amazing 97 and 1/2 inches. A live webcam is available and on site viewing is …