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Month: November 2005
Which Search Engine Should I Use When I'm Looking For…?
Information specialist, Phil Bradley has compiled a very useful guide to finding information with search engines. The chart is divided into two columns: What do you need to find, and what do you already know? …
Compare States Open Records & Meetings Laws
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is has developed a handy little tool for comparing state open records and open meetings laws. Keyword search or browse the topic outline. Select multiple states for …
Track Packages via RSS
More shopping tips – this one from Jenkins Law Library Webblits Track your holiday packages with RSS This is a nifty little tool. Simple Tracking offers a way for you to track your holiday packages …
For the Book Lover on Your List
I never know what to get my brother-in-law for the holidays. In desperation, I asked his wife hoping that she might know. Bingo – apparently, he wants books on the natural history of the Canadian …
Sex Offender Registry to Include Addresses
Soon Wisconsin residents will be able to find out if any of their neighbors are sex offenders. The WI Department of Corrections sex offender registry, which started in 1997, will be adding addresses to its …
The Biggest Poinsettia You've Ever Seen
It’s a close call, but I think that this year’s poinsettia from our LexisNexis reps is even bigger than last year’s model. Note the tiny looking volume of the Wisconsin Statutes Annotated that I placed …
ALSO: An Awesome Site for Legal Research on the Internet
One of my favorite sites for researching law on the Internet is American Law Sources Online (ALSO). ALSO has compiled an outstanding, well organized collection of links to freely available primary and some secondary legal …
Library, Info. Science & Technology (LISTA) Database Free from EBSCO
Kudos to EBSCO for making the database, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) freely available on their Web site. As someone who writes and speaks about the use of technology in libraries, I use …
Low-Tech Privacy Tips
From inter alia: Chris Hoofnagle, the Director of EPIC West, presents this nice Consumer Privacy Top 10 list of things you can do with little money, effort, or knowledge of technology. It’s a great list …