There is a very troubling post over at Out of the Jungle about public libraries which were forced to close due to budget cuts and are now being reopened under the management of an outsourced, …
Month: October 2007
RSS Comes to CCAP
Update: 10/23/07 RSS feeds will be added to “Court Record Events” by the end of the day according to Jean Bousquet over at Wisconsin Courts. And based on this post, they are also working on …
Save the Date – L. Gasaway to Speak at Marquette on "Amending the Copyright Act for Libraries" on April 18th
As part of National Library Week, Marquette University Law Library will be hosting Laura N. Gasaway, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Law to speak on “Amending the …
HeinOnline to Enhance Title Browsing
HeinOnline will soon be enhancing title browsing. From the HeinOnline Weblog: We added the ability to browse volumes within a title without taking you to an entirely new page. On a collection’s list of titles …
14% of Legal Malpractice Claims Arise from Failure to Know or Properly Apply Law
In doing some research for my upcoming presentation at the WI Solo and Small Firm Conference, I came across and interesting set of statistics. According to the Wisconsin Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company, fourteen percent of …
Read Two Books and Call Me in the Morning
There is a wonderful story in today’s Capital Times about UW Hospital resident, Dipesh Navsaria, who measures his young patients’ development by putting a book in their hands and watching their reaction. From the article: …
WisconsinEye Announces Partnership with BadgerNet
According to a Wisconsin Department of Administration press release, WisconsinEye announced on Monday that it has reached agreement with the department to launch the WisconsinEye channel on the BadgerNet video network serving education and government …
WI Courts RSS Feeds
The Wisconsin Court system has developed RSS feeds for the following: News releases Supreme Court opinions and dispositional orders Supreme Court rules Supreme Court oral arguments Supreme Court dispositional orders Court of Appeals opinions Court …
NYT's Tobin Harshaw to Lecture at UW on Thursday
From UW-Madison Libraries: Tobin Harshaw, senior staff editor for the Op-Ed pages of The New York Times, comes to campus Thursday, Oct. 18, to give a 4:30 p.m. lecture for the Friends of the Libraries …
Book Festival Coverage from Wisconsin Eye
There is more video/audio footage from the Wisconsin Book Festival over at Wisconsin Eye. Here are some of the latest offerings: 10.14.07: “Odd Wisconsin: Amusing, Perplexing, and Unlikely Stories from Wisconsin’s Past” 10.13.07 “Provoking Democracy: …