Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Last night as we were snuggling up in our favorite rocking chair, my three-year-old daughter invited me along on her rocket ship. “Where are we going?” I asked. “To the moon?” “No,” she said, “to Mars. It’s a planet.” Surprised that she knew this, I continued, “And what will be see when we get there?” …
My colleague, Jenny Zook, has written a funny and thought-provoking article for this month’s LLRX entitled, Technology and the Generation Gap. Abstract: Genevieve Zook’s forthright, insightful and timely commentary addresses the challenges of balancing the push for gadgets and applications with the concepts of direct customer contact and value added services. Whether you’re an “oldster,” …
I’m pleased that my article, IM a Librarian: Establishing a Virtual Reference Service with Little Cost or Technical Skill appears in the August edition of LLRX. The article is basically a how to on using IM and chat in a library. It’s based on my own experience with both at the UW Law Library. We …
This morning I was looking through my six-year-old son’s backpack and found his journal from summer school. I was struck by one of the entries. The topic posed by his teacher was: If I were president, my new rules would be. This was his response: 1. No sadnis (sadness) 2. No pets 3. No polushun …
Information Today reports that as of January 2008, American Law Reports (ALR) will be available exclusively on Westlaw. From the article: It isn’t the first time that users have had products pulled out from under them. Lexis took away Shepard’s Citators–and in fact, Westlaw’s novel and award-winning KeyCite was a response to that. Factiva has …
From LibrarianInBlack: SmartMoney offers advice on the Best Time to Buy Everything, from clothing to gas to groceries. There are some good ideas there, and some interesting take-away tips.
Here’s one from Law Librarian Blog: Check out twitter.com/HouseFloor which distributes live updates from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, updated every five minutes with any new information from The Office of the Clerk of the House. [What’s Twitter?]
The New York Times reports on the project of “Internet gadfly” Carl Malamud, founder of Public.Resource.Org, to make more than 10 million pages of case law available free online. According to the ReadMe file on Public.Resource.Org, The short-term goal of the project is the creation of an unencumbered full-text repository of the Federal Reporter, the …
If you missed The Hollywood Librarian at ALA, there’s good news. It is being screened in libraries this fall during Banned Books Week. A map of screening locations is available. Looks like it is showing in a handful of libraries throughout Wisconsin (times updated 9/27/07): UW-Madison SLIS – Sep 30 at 4 pm, Oct 4 …
The Shifted Librarian reports that EBSCO has finally embraced RSS. To test it out, do a search in an EBSCO database, such as Academic Search Elite which is freely available to all Wisconsinites via Badgerlink. On your search results page, notice the orange RSS button which appears at the top. Click on this will give …