Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From Check It Out @ the Madison Public Library: Traveling to another country and want to dine out or shop? You need a Language Translator! Madison Public Library now has a variety of hand-held translators to help you with on-the-spot translations. Just type in a word or phrase, and the translator will find the correct …
Thanks to Mary Koshollek for letting me know that the Wisconsin Solo and Small Firm Conference schedule is up. The conference will be held on November 29 and 30 at the Italian Conference Center in Milwaukee. Attendees can choose from four tracks of programming covering Substantive Law, Practice Management, Technology and Ethics/Quality of Life as …
HeinOnline has launched a blog to provide product information to users. According to Hein: This blog will offer insight to our newest products, notify customers of our latest interface enhancements, and share tips to help improve customers research experience. Anyone from students and librarians to professionals world-wide will be able to use our blog to …
With their newly redesigned Web site, the Law Library of Congress is introducing several new products, including Congressional Hearings. Here’s a blub from their Web site: As part of the Law Library’s transition to the digital future, a collaborative pilot project was undertaken with Google, Inc. to digitize the entire collection and make it freely …
Soon NBC will be allow viewers to download many of their most popular programs free to personal computers and other devices for one week immediately after their broadcasts. NBC announced a few weeks ago that it was pulling it’s shows off of iTunes. According to the New York Times: The files, which would be downloaded …
Since January, we’ve had a chat box on our home page. Law School and other UW–Madison students, faculty & staff can use it to ask legal research questions of our reference librarians. The chat box is courtesy of a service called Plugoo. The questions asked through the chat box are routed to our regular IM …
US Courts has an interesting article on how PACER has altered the business of the courts. Here’s a sampling from the article: “It’s definitely changed the way our office does business, and I think it’s been a change for the better,” said Monica Menier, clerk of the bankruptcy court in the Middle District of Louisiana. …
Yesterday, the Judicial Conference of the United States voted to make transcripts of federal district and bankruptcy court proceedings available online through PACER. According to the press release: Under the new policy, transcripts created by court reporters or transcribers will be available for inspection and copying in a clerk of court’s office and for download …
Yesterday the New York Times began offering its content free online. Now, according to a Reuters article, it looks like the Wall Street Journal may follow suit. Thanks to Library Laws for the tip.
Update: The corresponding Senate bill is 214. ————— My Wisconsin Legislative Notifications account picked up this bill, AB-433, relating to the disclosure of library records to law enforcement officers. LRB synopsis: Under current law, public library records may not be disclosed to any person except in certain specified circumstances. This bill requires a public library …