Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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 Maritime Provinces. Not too surprisingly, she was at a loss where to look. Librarian to the rescue. So I worked …
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 database starting on Thursday. The database contains about 17,800 sex offenders. According to The Capital Times, the Web site currently …
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 nearby for comparison. Felly’s delivered the “tree” this morning. Come by to visit it, and us, before I either over …
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 resources for federal and state law. It includes case law, statutes, local ordinances, administrative code, forms, research guides, and more. …
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 LISTA fairly often. From EBSCO: This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online …
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 with non-techie things you can do to protect your privacy.
Media Law Resource Center has compiled a list of libel and related lawsuits against bloggers. Source: Depraved Librarian
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 was the dialog with the attendees that really made the program, I thought. Ironically enough, it was a technical glitch …
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 weeks, as DCLRC and judges prepare for the move to the new courthouse, we will be discarding certain sets of …
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.