Once again this year, the Wisconsin Humanities Council is sponsoring a statewide discussion series entitled, A More Perfect Union: To Establish Justice. From the web site: This year’s A More Perfect Union theme, To Establish …
Year: 2006
NLJ Article on Judges Citing Blogs
There is an interesting article in the National Law Journal about judges citing to blogs. The article notes that since 2004, judges have cited blogs 32 times in 27 different cases, including Justice John Paul …
Free Loislaw Workshop at MLRC
The Milwaukee County Legal Resource Center has announced that their is still time to sign up for “Using Loislaw.com!” From WSLL @ Your Service: This class will be presented Thursday, September 28, 2006, from 12:15 …
LegalTrac Interface Changes
The Wisconsin State Law Library newsletter recently ran an article describing the interface changes to the LegalTrac database. What’s LegalTrac? A database containing citations for articles in law reviews, specialty law publications, bar association journals, …
Early Bookmobiles & Traveling Libraries
Today’s Odd Wisconsin pays homage to Wisconsin’s earliest bookmobiles and traveling libraries. This 1910 International Auto Wagon loaded with books is undoubtedly one of the earliest bookmobiles. There were also the mobile libraries of the …
Search 200+ Years of News & Magazine Articles
The big news today is Google News Archive Search, a searchable archive of articles that, in some cases, date back 200+ years. Some publishing partners include The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The …
Summary of the 2005-2006 Wisconsin Legislative Session
The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau has created a handy Summary of the 2005-2006 Wisconsin Legislative Session. From the introduction: This bulletin provides an overview of the acts and joint resolutions of the 2005-2006 Wisconsin Legislature. …
Free Webinar on RSS for Legal Professionals
I received a postcard in the mail today for a free Webinar from Newsgator entitled, “RSS: The Future of Legal Information Delivery” It is scheduled for September 26th at 2:30 pm and September 27th at …
Bucky Badger READ Poster
Inspired by the Law Library’s successful READ poster campaign last year, the UW-Madison campus libraries have teamed up with the UW Athletic Department to create a READ poster and bookmarks featuring Bucky Badger. They will …
Scanned Books & Gov Docs Available via MBooks
You may have seen the news that the University of Michigan has partnered with Google to scan library materials. The project is called MBooks. According to the FAQ: Access to MBooks is through Mirlyn, the …