Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From the New York Times article, Prisons Purging Books on Faith From Libraries: Behind the walls of federal prisons nationwide, chaplains have been quietly carrying out a systematic purge of religious books and materials that were once available to prisoners in chapel libraries…. Traci Billingsley, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Prisons, said the agency …
In addition to the password protected LexisNexis, there is also a campus wide product called LexisNexis Academic to which the UW Madison Libraries subscribe. Anyone may use this service at no charge at any campus library. Although it doesn’t offer everything in full Lexis, most of it is there. LexisNexis Academic recently underwent a redesign …
The Wisconsin State Law Library routinely offers a great slate of workshops. Looks like there is a new one coming up in November called, “Using Blogs to Promote Your Law Practice.” Here’s the description: Blogs can be used to inform, communicate and network. How can you use a blog to connect with clients? Learn how …
Deliberations has an interesting post on jurors who blog. The part that caught my librarian’s eye was the collection of tips on setting up searches to find juror blog posts. Summarized, they are: Learn about RSS and get yourself a feed reader Search for your case name plus “jury duty” and your city Search both …
More goodies from Justia – they expanded their Federal District Court Filings database. They’ve gone back a few more years and now cover from 2004 to the present. And now, in addition to just seeing information about the case, for some cases you can actually view the opinions, orders, and complete filings. This is awesome! …
As part of its Litigation Support Guide, the Wisconsin Law Journal explores the use of wikis in the legal environment. The article is available in the August 27th print edition and will eventually make it’s way online. I was interviewed for the article, along with librarian and wiki expert, Debbie Ginsburg from Chicago Kent College …
Indie Pop Band SNMNMNM pays homage to librarians in it’s new song, “Addy Will Know.” It’s about a real librarian who helps a patron find four books for which he is looking. The names of the books are never mentioned, but as a kind of puzzle, the song itself includes call numbers that correspond to …
WisconsinEye announced yesterday that it will begin gavel-to-gavel broadcast coverage of oral arguments in the State Supreme Court beginning with today’s with three scheduled cases. State of Wisconsin v. Ronald Schaefer (Case # 2006AP1826-CRAC) Stuart v. Weisflog’s Showroom Gallery (Case # 2005AP1287)09-05-07 Stuart v. Weisflog’s Showroom Gallery (Case # 2005AP886) WisconsinEye President & CEO Chris …
If you were a book, what book would you be? Answer just six questions to find your exact literary match! My match is To Kill a Mockingbird. Hat tip to my colleague, Mary Jo Koranda.
Legal Conference Watch, the blog announced last month from the Gallagher Law Library, has remade itself as the Legal Scholarship Blog. This blog is a collaborative service from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the Gallagher Law Library at the University of Washington School of Law. The blog features law-related calls for papers, …