Dumb Criminals on MySpace
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 their doors.
Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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 their doors.
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 objective of assuring users that the information made available by GPO is official and authentic… The Public and Private Laws …
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 site. Not only is this good news for historical researchers, it holds special significance to me personally. My very first …
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.
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 Congress American State Papers According to the post, this collection will begin to appear in June 2007, with the remainder …
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 the district courts) but not to cover substance.” To contribute to the wiki, see the Registration page. Source: Slaw
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.
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 the Madison Public Library allows its users to go online and put holds on movies, but also TV series, books, …
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 lunch, I participated on a panel with Professors Doug Berman of the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State …
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 College of Law and Patrick Meyer of Thomas Jefferson School of Law. There was a lot of interesting data presented, …