Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
While I was away on vacation last week, the Capital Times ran an article on social networking in libraries. The UW Law Library was one of the libraries featured, along with Wendt Library and the South Central Library System. From the article: Libraries have long struggled with a stuffy reputation, but on the UW–Madison campus …
More news from the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau: According to Allan Marty, the LRB and LTSB (Legislative Technology Services Bureau) are in the process of putting the 2005 Legislative Drafting Records on the LRB website. Allan also noted that “if everything goes as planned we would probably put all sessions that we have in electronic …
I spoke with LRB Chief Steve Miller this afternoon and he informed me that there has been some changes regarding the Revisor of Statutes move. As I posted earlier, in an amendment to the proposed 2007 state budget (Senate Bill 40), the Wisconsin Revisor of Statutes Bureau is slated to be eliminated as an agency. …
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections has recently digitized the full text of the Wisconsin Blue Books, going back to 1853. Read more about it in the Wisconsin State Journal.
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections has recently digitized the full text of the Wisconsin Blue Books, going back to 1853. Read more about it in the Wisconsin State Journal.
The results of the 2007 CALI Legal Education Podcast survey are now available. (Well, ok – they’ve been available for a while now and I’m just getting around to posting about them.) Between March and May of 2007 CALI surveyed law students who took courses in which faculty had podcast lectures as part of the …
The results of the 2007 CALI Legal Education Podcast survey are now available. (Well, ok – they’ve been available for a while now and I’m just getting around to posting about them.) Between March and May of 2007 CALI surveyed law students who took courses in which faculty had podcast lectures as part of the …
There is an article in the May 28th edition of the Wisconsin Law Journal on the proposed elimination of the Revisor of Statutes Bureau. If passed, the workload would be split amongst the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) and the Joint Legislative Council (JLC) – with no additional personnel to handle the increased workload. According to …
A few weeks ago, our Evening and Weekend Reference Librarian, Eric Taylor, noticed a large gap in the public domain citation numbers for the 2007 Wisconsin Court of Appeals opinions. Upon contacting the court, we received the following memorandum from Christopher Paulsen, Chief Deputy Clerk: Please be advised that the Public Domain Citation (PDC) numbers …
Margaret Booth, our Documents Assistant, clued me into a fun site for Badger fans called Bucky’s Badger Den. It’s geared for kids, but I have to admit that some of the games looked pretty fun. Check out my paper doll Bucky. Can you tell I’m going on vacation in a few weeks? Update – turns …