Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Wisconsin History Society has a lot of interesting RSS feeds, including one highlighting old photographs from it’s archives. This photo came around last week. A group of young men is sitting in a darkened, smoky-looking theater. On the screen is a quote from Jay Gould: “I can hire one-half of the working class to …
Two recent surveys on librarian job satisfaction offer conflicting views. According to Law.com, LawFirmInc.’s sixth annual survey of law firm librarians at Am Law 200 firms reveals that they are continuing to move beyond “traditional” library work, like legal research, and into marketing and competitive intelligence, computer training and even knowledge management projects… Yet the …
LOUIS is a new mega search engine of U.S. executive and legislative documents. A project of the Sunlight Foundation, LOUIS offers a combined search of Congressional Reports, Congressional Record, Congressional Hearings, Federal Register, Presidential Documents, Federal Register, GAO Reports, and Congressional Bills & Resolutions. The files themselves come from GPO Access. Besides the ability to …
I noticed a while back that Shepard’s coverage was expanded in the new beta version of LexisNexis Academic. In the current version, only U.S. Supreme Court cases can be Shepardized. There was some discussion today on the AALL Academic Law Libraries SIS about coverage. Apparently it includes all case law, but no statutory coverage.
OK – this has nothing to do with libraries, or law, or technology, but it was too bizarre not to share. From Reuters Oddly Enough (photo from the Herald Sun): A giant, smiling Lego man was fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort on Tuesday. Workers at a drinks stall rescued …
The ABA Journal has recently redesigned their web site. According to a post in the ABA TechShow blog, there are three main features: Law News Now: “The latest legal news stories, hand selected by our lawyer-journalists. It’s updated continuously every business day.” The Blawg Directory: “More than 1,000 blogs written by lawyers who are experts …
JS Online reports that the ABA is considering a resolution urging local, state and federal governments to seal the records of criminal cases in which convictions were not obtained. “It also calls for sealing the records of misdemeanor and felony convictions after a specified period of ‘law-abiding conduct.’ Only police and prosecutors would have access …
Looks like The New York Times may stop charging readers for online access to its TimesSelect service which features Op-Ed columnists and other content, says the New York Post. After much internal debate, Times executives – including publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. – made the decision to end the subscription-only TimesSelect service but have yet to …
I stayed up late last night reading The Book Thief: The True Crimes of Daniel Spiegelman which was written by fellow law librarian, Travis McDade. Here’s a good description that I found on Amazon: The Book Thief tells the real life story of Daniel Spiegelman, who took a turn stealing rare books and manuscripts from …
NewsGator, a company specializing in information delivery via RSS, is offering a free Webinar titled “Enterprise RSS for the Legal Profession” on August 21st, 2:00 ET. I expect they will be demoing NewsGator Enterprise Server which according to their Web site “helps organizations take news and updates from the Web, the blogosphere, premium content providers …