From the Christian Science Monitor: How to go to M.I.T. for free By the end of this year, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at one of the world’s most prestigious universities will be …
Month: January 2007
Articles by UW Law Profs Macaulay and Galanter Considered Top Works in American Legal Thought
The Wisconsin Law Journal has a nice article on UW Law profs, Stewart Macaulay and Marc Galanter, who each had an article included in the “The Canon of American Legal Thought,” an anthology looking at …
FirstGov is Now USA.gov
To better reflect it’s purpose as the official web portal of the U.S. government, FirstGov.gov has changed its named to USA.gov. A Spanish version is also available.
WI Ct of App Rules That PDF No Substitute For Database Access Under Open Access Law
TVC Alert reports: The Wisconsin Court of Appeals last week ruled that in accordance with the state’s open access law, PDF copies of information in a database do not substitute for access to the database. …
Legal Research Movie on YouTube
From Law Librarian Blog: A group of students in Stanford Law’s advanced legal research class created a short (3 minute) silent film, Legal Research: The Movie. Fantastic! I guess the movie isn’t a “talkie” because …
Add Chat to Your Web Site with Plugoo
The UW Law Library has recently upgraded our IM/chat reference service with a new tool called Plugoo. We’ve added a text chat box to our home page inviting our students, faculty, and staff to contact …
Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2006
The ALA Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has named Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2006. Highlights include: AF: Acronym Finder Constitution Finder E-how How Products are Made In the first person: An index …
Time to Resubscribe to Wisconsin Legislative Notification Service
Yesterday, I received this notice from the Wisconsin Legislative Notification Service: The Wisconsin Legislative Notification Service will be temporarily unavailable until January 4th, 2007. During this time the 2005-2006 legislative session data will be removed …
Article on Filtering RSS Feeds
I’m please to report that my article, Too Much Information: Filtering RSS Feeds, appears in the Winter 2006 issue of Connecting…, the newsletter of the AALL Computing Services Special Interest Section. In the article, I …
Free Software Giveaway of the Day
From Inter Alia: Free Software…..Every Day I’ve been a big fan of Giveaway of the Day for about a month now. It’s a site that offers fully licensed software to you every day — a …