Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
I’m down in Chicago today attending the Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium. The morning session has been very thought provoking. We heard from Mary Alice Baish of the American Association of Law Libraries who spoke about efforts (or lack thereof) of state and federal governments to provide official, authentic legal materials in …
The latest edition of Law Library Journal is out and it contains articles from the symposium on Legal Information and the Development of American Law: Further Thinking about the Thoughts of Robert C. Berring. Included is Should Legal Research Be Included on the Bar Exam? An Exploration of the Question by the UW Law Library’s …
Although the site still says it’s under construction, WisconsinEye is scheduled to broadcast its first live gavel-to-gavel Internet coverage of the state Assembly and Senate at 11 a.m. today. According to JSOnline PoliticsWatch: WisconsinEye has also finalized agreements for digital channels to be available on the Charter and TimeWarner cable system in Wisconsin, said WisconsinEye …
The New York Times reports that Reuters agreed today to a “$17.2 billion takeover by Thomson that would vault the combined entity ahead of Bloomberg to become the world’s largest financial data and news provider.” ”The companies will be separate legal entities but will be managed and operated as if they were a single economic …
The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians through Film, the first full-length documentary film to focus on the work and lives of librarians, is scheduled to premier at American Library Association (ALA) 2007 Annual Conference June 21-27 in Washington, D.C. From the web site: The Hollywood Librarian is a unique and charming blend of film …
From OCLC: The University of Washington Libraries is the first to pilot WorldCat Local, a new service that builds on WorldCat.org to allow Web access to the world’s richest database for discovery of materials held in libraries. The goal of the pilot is to provide users with a single search and request service that covers …
Don’t forget that the new United States Postal Service rates go into effect today. The price of a first class stamp is now 41 cents. Looks like I’ll have to go get a bunch of make up stamps. From now on, I think I’ll buy the new Forever Stamps which are good for mailing one-ounce …
There is an interesting article entitled “Are You Podcasting: Current Uses of Podcasts in Law Libraries” in the May issue of AALL Spectrum. Although they haven’t caught on as quickly as blogs have (there are currently 116 law library blogs), some law librarians are experiment with podcasting. The article highlights the podcasting projects from numerous …
In an amendment to the proposed 2007 state budget (Senate Bill 40), it appears that the Wisconsin Revisor of Statutes Bureau may be eliminated as an agency. The amendment (LRB b 0074/2) transfers most of the statutory functions to Legislative Reference Bureau except for the Administrative Register which will go to the Legislative Council. The …
There is an interesting article on The Fourth Amendment and Privacy Issues on the “New” Internet: Facebook.com and MySpace.com in the Fall issue of the Southern Illinois University Law Journal. Abstract: Facebook.com and MySpace.com are two of the most trafficked Web sites on the Internet. These Web sites form a “new” type of internet where …