Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Technorati’s latest quarterly State of the Blogosphere is out and findings show that the blogosphere is continuing to expand at an amazing rate. Some of the more interesting stats: The blogosphere is doubling in size every 5 and a half months On average, a new weblog is created every second of every day 9% of …
From the Baltimore Sun (free registration required): If you’re two weeks late in returning a book to the Baltimore County library, you’re likely to get a phone call. If your book is four weeks overdue, you’ll receive a notice in the mail. And if you’re Philip Akbar Shabazz, you’re sent a letter that begins: “You …
From inter allia: Have a long message to send to someone, and just don’t feel like typing it? Enter WaxMail, a program that records your message in MP3 format and then attaches it to an Outlook message. And it’s free, too.
Some Gmail (Google email) users now have access to nifty new tool – an embedded chat client. Unfortunately, it hasn’t made its way to my Gmail account just yet. But, according to SearchEngineWatch, it’s pretty sweet. For those visual learners like me, check out the Gmail chat help for an enlargement of the image below.
Do your searches often yield too many or too few search results? Or would you just like to brush up on your search strategies? If so, help has arrived. The UW–Madison campus librarians have created a series of nice, short narrated tutorials that offer strategies for achieving better search results. The tutorials were created using …
From Bad to Great: Transforming Your PowerPoint Presentations is the title of a free Web Cafe seminar from Office Depot. Although the live semimar was offered in January, you may replay it at any time. Of, if you are like me and don’t want to take the time to listen to the whole thing, take …
From the New York Times: America Online and Yahoo, two of the world’s largest providers of e-mail accounts, are about to start using a system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies that pay from 1/4 of a cent to a penny each to have them delivered. The senders must promise to contact only …
“I’m finding it hard to imagine that there’s 45 minutes of stuff to see in the library. Unless they’re going to have us shelve books, or complete a short research assignment while we’re there,” wrote one law student blogger of first year library orientations tours. Understanding law student attitudes and behavior is key to sucessfully …
The Winter 2006 edition of The Third Branch is now available. The Third Branch is a quarterly publication providing news of interest to the Wisconsin Court System. Highlights include: – Evaluation of caseload statistics – Update on judicial compensation – Opening of new Dane County Courthouse
Tthe University of Wisconsin Digital Collections group has announced the addition of Diplomatic Papers, 1944-1945 to its Foreign Relations of the United States Collection. The Foreign Relations series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. The series is produced by the State …