Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
In his Law.com article entitled Viewing Law Blogs as a Vast Amicus Brief, Howard Bashman consideres “what should judges do if, while visiting the legal blogosphere, they encounter discussions about how pending cases ought to be decided? He writes, “We expect appellate courts to conduct their own legal research, beyond that presented by the parties, …
Cindy Chick of LawLibTech, reports on her conversations with legal publishers at AALL about content delivery via RSS. She writes, “I found some serious progress is being made on the RSS front.” Here’s more: First, there’s BNA. Their email newsletters are very popular among the attorney population. And yes, their information is soon to be …
From Librarian in Black: Free411 (1-800-Free 411 / 1-800-373-3411) is a completely automated free directory assistance service that works on cell and land lines. I know my cell phone carrier charges $1.50 for each directory assistance call. No longer will I fall for that! Just call the number, give the city and state, choose whether …
The latest edition of the Google Librarian Newsletter is now available. Featured is the “Tips of the Trade” campaign in which Google invited librarians to send them tips, ideas, and stories about innovative ways they’ve used Google tools to help patrons find information. Google produced a short movie which was featured at the ALA (American …
Free Government Information (FGI) has compiled a list of silly titles of government documents. The list based on an exchange among GovDoc-L subscribers. Some of my favorites are (title followed by SuDoc number and link to find in a local library): Fertilizers in a national emergency A 1.6:966 Find in a library The golden age …
From BoleyBlogs: Fordham University School of Law has recently created LawClinic.TV, a video blog whose purpose is “to showcase the clinical community and provide a place for one piece of our ongoing conversation about legal education, justice, community, equality, the rule of law and so much else.” (via About LawClinic.TV) Each blog entry contains brief, …
Bloglines has recently announced that you can now listen to your podcast subscriptions directly in your list of feeds. This is pretty handy for the occasional podcast listener who either doesn’t have an iPod or other MP3 player or prefers not to download them. One thing to note, however: if you navigate your browser away …
For UW Law School Students, Faculty & Staff Only: Library Express users will notice that the LX form has been redesigned. (Library Express is the UW Madison Libraries system for Inter-Library Loan and campus document delivery requests). The LX interface continues to be user friendly, with similar fields and formatting to expedite your requests. These …
Are you a visual learner? Does the thought of a text-heavy computer manual leave you wanting? Then check out In Pictures, a publisher of computer manuals which go heavy on the screen shots. And until August 1st, they are absolutely free to download. Manuals are available in the following categories: computer basics microsoft office openoffice.org …
If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend that you take a look at Beyond the Books which appeared in the July issue of The American Lawyer. Author Alan Cohen discusses the changing nature of law librarianship and what it can mean for a law firm’s bottom line. Here are some of the highlights …