Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Section 29.503(1)(d) of the Wisconsin statutes says quite clearly that many things, including crab, lobster, shrimp and a host of other delicacies, are in fact “seafood” under the law, “but not any canned fish or fish known as lutefisk.” From an interesting article in the Capital Times about how this law came to be. Nothing …
Today’s Odd Wisconsin describes Wisconsin’s first election in 1836. I thought that this was interesting: That first census taken in August 1836 was performed in order to identify voters. It found only 11,683 non-Indian residents within the bounds of today’s Wisconsin: Brown County – 2,706 Crawford County – 850 Iowa County – 5,234 Milwaukee County …
According to the October ABA Site-tation, the ABA is now selling iPods preloaded with CLE content. Video iPods for the Business Law and Labor and Employment Law Editions include video CLE programs. iPod nanos include audio CLE programs in Litigation, Antitrust Law, Estate Planning, Health Law and Real Property Editions. ABA-CLE also offers audio downloads …
From Real Lawyers Have Blogs: Jason Eiseman, Computer Automation Librarian at Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt, has produced an excellent 3 part screencast tutorial on RSS: 1. Introduction of RSS discusses importance of RSS and looks at an RSS feed. 2. How to set up an RSS aggregator and subscribe to RSS feeds. 3. Specific tools …
I give a lot of presentations and have learned that the receptiveness of the audience has a big outcome on the success of the presentation. This morning, it was my pleasure to speak at the Legislative Reference Librarians conference on the topic of Blogging in Libraries. They were a great audience who seemed genuinely interested …
This afternoon at the Legislative Reference Librarians conference we heard from Donna Scheeder, Director Law Library Services Library of Congress on Succession Planning and Workforce Transformation Foundation for the Future. She gave some excellent tips on planning for the intellectual capital needs of the organization over time. Five steps were identified: 1. Identify critical positions …
This morning I’m attending the Legislative Research Librarians’ Professional Development Seminar here in Madison. I’m excited about the great line up of presentations. First up was Chi-Shiou Lin doctoral student at UW Madison SLIS who spoke on Electronic Government Publication Preservation Programs. His research addresses the question of how selection and review of gov docs …
Photo from SlashPhone There is a very interesting article in the International Herald Tribune about QR, or quick response codes. It begins with a young woman snapping a picture with her cell phone of QR code on a movie poster and instantly retrieving show times and a review of the film. From the article: QR, …
I’m a firm believer that public libraries are one of the best deals around. Besides the books, music, and movies available for checkout, many libraries offer card holders remote access to their collection of databases. If you are a regular WisBlawg reader, you know that I often mention those available through the South Central Library …
CNET News has a very thought-provoking article on the challenges of accessing online accounts of deceased family members. “As more and more people move their lives, address books, calendars, financial information, online, they are taking a risk that some information formerly filed away in folders and desks might never be recovered. That is, unless they …