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 …
Year: 2005
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 …
Lawsuits Against Bloggers
Media Law Resource Center has compiled a list of libel and related lawsuits against bloggers. Source: Depraved Librarian
A Dialog with the Audience
On Friday, I had the pleasure to talk with some librarians from the Southwest Wisconsin Library System on the topic of Blogging @ Your Library. Although the talk was centered around my Powerpoint presentation, it …
DCLRC to Sell Discarded Law Books
The Dane County Legal Resource Center is having a moving sale. From librarian, Paula Seeger: Does your office or firm library need law books? Take advantage of discarded sets from the Courthouse. In the upcoming …
Milwaukee County Board Restores Some Court Funding
From Burning Ears Blawg: The County Board overrode the County Executive’s budget amendment vetoes and the future of the Milwaukee Legal Resource Center looks much brighter. Story from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.