Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
It’s not very well advertised, but U.S. law school users may access Quicklaw at no charge. To register, call 1-800-387-0899. A .edu email address is required. Quicklaw, from LexisNexis Canada, is a Web-based resource that offers over 2,500 databases of law, news and information from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Africa, Malaysia …
Kiplinger has named “librarian” as one of the 7 Great Careers for 2007. Forget about the image of librarian as mousy bookworm. Today’s librarian is a high-tech information sleuth, a master of mining cool databases (well beyond Google) to unearth the desired nuggets. Plus you’ll probably have regular hours and good job security. Source: The …
From LibraryBoy: Two professors in England have digitized the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, the digest of more than 100,000 trials that took place in the famous London criminal courts between 1674 and 1834. The website includes a publishing history of the Proceedings, a list of notable trials that reveal a lot of the context …
Coolexon is a dictionary and multi-language translation software providing results in over 60 languages. It offers users a variety of free dictionaries and translation tools in English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and other major languages in the world. And Coolexon is only 3.3MB. Coolexon has two key features: cursor translation and text translation. With …
Get geared up for next week’s Wisconsin Film Festival by watching your favorites from years’ past. Check out the Madison Public Library’s collection of film fest titles. Thanks to What’s New from the Madison Public Library for the tip. Did you know that if you have a South Central Library System card you can go …
The Chronicle of Higher Ed reports that the New York Times has altered its offer to make Times Select, which includes columnists and archives going back to the 1800s, available to college students for free. After librarians complained that they already pay tens of thousands of dollars for access to premium New York Times content …
“Scribd is YouTube for documents,” says Neil Squillante of TechnoLawyer. This free online library where anyone can upload supports .doc, .pdf, .txt, .ppt, .xls, .mp3, and more. What’s in it for legal practitioners? According to Technolawyer: — You can use Scribd as a free document conversion tool, albeit with a limited number of file formats …
Tis’ the season for lectures, it seems. On Thursday, April 5th the Wright Lecture Series presents “The Shared Ideal: The Carnegie Library Designs of Claude & Starck.” The lecture will be held at 7pm in the Monona Terrace Lecture Hall and is free and open to the public. From the Madison Public Library What’s New …
“The Googlization of Everything: Digitization and the Future of Books” is the topic of a UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies lecture to be held May 12th. Speaker Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of the “Anarchist in the Library,” is considered one of the foremost speakers in the world on digital rights, electronic communication and the ethics of …
From Library Boy: LEGISinfo, the Library of Parliament’s legislative research website, has started offering RSS feeds since the beginning of this parliamentary session to help people track bills before the House of Commons and the Senate. In the lefthand column on the LEGISinfo home page, simply click on any of the links to Senate or …