In the category of dumb criminals, JS Online has an article about people bragging about their crimes on MySpace – complete with photos. Of course, it doesn’t take long before the police come knocking at …
Year: 2007
GPO Authenticating Laws for 110th Congress
GPO has announced that authenticated Public and Private Laws for the 110th Congress are now available on GPO Access as a searchable and browseable application in beta form. GPO’s Authentication initiative focuses on the primary …
Recently Digitized Wisconsin Magazine of History Contains My First Article on Prostitution in Eau Claire
The Wisconsin Historical Society has recently digitized the full text of The Wisconsin Magazine of History from volume 1 (1917) to volume 83 (1999). The journal is freely available on the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Web …
Mr. Bean Visits the Library
Thanks to my colleague, Cindy May, for passing on this YouTube video of Mr Bean’s visit to the library, posted on Law Librarian Blog. Hilarious.
Hein Online Reportedly Plans to Digitize Congressional Record, Etc.
It’s been reported on the GOVDOC-L listserv that Hein Online is scheduled to release some significant collections soon, including the following: Congressional Record Annals of Congress Register of Debates Congressional Globe Journals of the Continental …
Seventh Circuit Starts a Wiki
Law.com reports that the 7th Circuit has recently created a wiki. According to Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook, who spearheaded the project, “the goal is to concentrate on procedure (in both the court of appeals and …
Podcasts & Handouts from the Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium
I’ve just learned that the handouts, podcasts, and photos are now available for the Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium held last week at Chicago Kent.
Looking for Certain Book or Movie? Try the Madison Public Library's Hold System
There is a good article in the Capital Times extolling the virtues of the Madison Public Library’s (the South Central Library System’s actually) hold system. Maybe it’s not as fast or convenient as Netflix, but …
Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium – Web 2.0, Teaching Cost Effective Searching & Evaluating Subscription DBs
I’m back from Chicago Kent where I attended the Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium. I was unable to live blog the afternoon sessions, so I’ll share a few thoughts now. Right after …
Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium – Librarian and Practitioner Legal Research Survey Results
At the mid-morning session at the Back to the Future Symposium, we learned about the results from various practitioner and librarian surveys regarding legal research practices. Speakers were Sanford Greenberg and Tom Gaylord of Chicago-Kent …