American Lotus in Bloom
Lisa Pfaff, our Acquisitions Assistant, snapped this lovely photo this morning of a blooming American lotus at the UW–Madison Botany Garden.
Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Lisa Pfaff, our Acquisitions Assistant, snapped this lovely photo this morning of a blooming American lotus at the UW–Madison Botany Garden.
“Continuing its efforts to enhance the transparency of courtroom proceedings, the federal Judiciary is about to launch a pilot project to make digital audio recordings publicly available online,” reports The Third Branch. Five pilot project courts will begin loading the audio files into their CM/ECF systems later this summer where they will be available via …
I recently learned about Zotero, free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources, and I must say that I’m impressed. It is product of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Basically, you download a little extension for Firefox (sorry IE folks) and Zotero becomes …
WI Attorney General Van Hollen has recently issued several new opinions – two formal and one informal. They are available on the Attorney General’s web site. I created a crude RSS feed using Ponyfish. It’s not pretty, but it will send notification when there is a new opinion posted on the web site.
To encourage new users, AudioCaseFiles, a web site of downloadable MP3 files of court opinions, is available at no charge this summer. This service, which is aimed at law students, provides recordings of most of the opinions that appear in many law school first year course casebooks. Looks like there are a couple hundred so …
A new issue of the SSRN UW Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series was released yesterday. Articles include: “Renegotiations and Settlements: Dr. Pangloss’ Notes on the Margins of David Campbell’s Papers” by STEWART MACAULAY “Constitution-Making, Democracy and the Civilizing of Unreconcilable Conflict: What Might We Learn from the South African Miracle?” by HEINZ KLUG …
Here’s another nifty new Google tool: Google Translate. It can translate selected text or an entire web page. I could see this being really useful for viewing foreign laws on the Web when English translations aren’t available. Of course you wouldn’t rely 100% on the translation, but at least it would give you the gist. …
According to today’s Wisconsin State Journal, WisconsinEye could start broadcasting gavel-to-gavel coverage from the state Capitol to cable-television viewers as early as next Tuesday. WisconsinEye began broadcasting from its web site about a month ago. From the article: [Chris] Long, president and chief executive officer of WisconsinEye, sees the network becoming a state-based C-SPAN by …
SirsiDynix is offering a series of free Webinars for information professionals. There are two particularly interesting ones coming up: Writing for the Library Profession Date : Jul 10, 2007 Start Time : 11 a.m. Eastern Length : 01:00:00 Free your content! RSS for Libraries Date : Aug 07, 2007 Start Time : 11 a.m. Eastern …
Each year, the Wisconsin Library Association Government Information Round Table presents the Wisconsin Distinguished Document Award. It is presented each spring to a Wisconsin state or local government document published during the preceding year that, among other criteria, contributes significantly to the expansion of knowledge; provides inspiration and pleasure to an identifiable readership; contributes to …