Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
“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 …
I’m pleased to announce that WisBlawg has moved to a new home. Please direct your browser to http://www.law.wisc.edu/blogs/wisblawg/ We hope to move the archives over to the new platform in the near future. Additionally, we hope to create a redirect so that you will automatically be directed to the new site when you click on …
Welcome to WisBlawg’s new home on the Movable Type platform. Please note that the URL has changed to http://www.law.wisc.edu/blogs/wisblawg/ I made the change for several reasons and chief among them, the desire to move off of Blogger. Besides not being very customizable, the credibility of many Blogger blogs is questionable. Because it’s a free service, …
Learn what your colleagues think about blogging in the ABA Litigation Section blogs poll: Blogs are certainly pervasive on the internet, and a slight majority of you (57%) read some sort of blog on a regular basis. However, creating and maintaining a blog is a different story: only 19% of respondents write their own law-related …
TechnoLaywer Blog has a nice little summary of LexisNexis’ new browser toolbar. I noticed an ad for this the other day, but I haven’t tried this myself since I’ve already got more toolbars than I can use. If you’ve used it, I’d be interested in hearing some feedback. Just comment on this post to share …
And now the “news” from the UW Law Library… There was a joyful reunion here today as 4 books that walked away from the New Book Shelf at the University of Wisconsin Law Library over 3 years ago returned home. Cataloging assistant Carrie Doyle had been searching for 3 of the books since November, 2001, …
IPac, the Intellectual Property Action Committee, has launched an interesting campaign called the Congressional iPod Education fund. It seems they were inspired by “Senator Stevens, the 82-year old [U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation] chairman from Alaska, [who announced] that his daughter had bought him an iPod, and suddenly Stevens had a much …
Some sources are speculating that Amazon.com will soon be entering the online delivery of movies market. Arstechnica writes: According to the uniformly unnamed sources, Amazon’s vision includes a try before you buy model, where you could download or stream a movie for a fee, and apply that fee as a credit towards the purchase price …