Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Chronicle of Higher Ed reports that the New York Times has altered its offer to make Times Select, which includes columnists and archives going back to the 1800s, available to college students for free. After librarians complained that they already pay tens of thousands of dollars for access to premium New York Times content …
“Scribd is YouTube for documents,” says Neil Squillante of TechnoLawyer. This free online library where anyone can upload supports .doc, .pdf, .txt, .ppt, .xls, .mp3, and more. What’s in it for legal practitioners? According to Technolawyer: — You can use Scribd as a free document conversion tool, albeit with a limited number of file formats …
Tis’ the season for lectures, it seems. On Thursday, April 5th the Wright Lecture Series presents “The Shared Ideal: The Carnegie Library Designs of Claude & Starck.” The lecture will be held at 7pm in the Monona Terrace Lecture Hall and is free and open to the public. From the Madison Public Library What’s New …
“The Googlization of Everything: Digitization and the Future of Books” is the topic of a UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies lecture to be held May 12th. Speaker Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of the “Anarchist in the Library,” is considered one of the foremost speakers in the world on digital rights, electronic communication and the ethics of …
From Library Boy: LEGISinfo, the Library of Parliament’s legislative research website, has started offering RSS feeds since the beginning of this parliamentary session to help people track bills before the House of Commons and the Senate. In the lefthand column on the LEGISinfo home page, simply click on any of the links to Senate or …
According to UW Madison News, lawyer and best-selling author Scott Turow will give a free lecture, “Reflections of a Man with Two Heads,” at 5 p.m. Monday, April 9, in Room 1100 of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Grainger Hall, 975 University Ave. From the article: The lecture by Turow, author of “Presumed Innocent,” “The Burden …
Looks like the Wisconsin State Law Library has an excellent slate of workshops planned this spring and summer. From their Web site: National Library Week Special WSLL Web Tours Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:00-10:00 a.m. OR Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:00-10:00 a.m. Take a guided tour of the information-packed WSLL website. Explore Wisconsin & Federal …
Litilaw is a new, free online collection of CLE materials and other articles of interest to litigators and other legal professionals. Articles are organized categories including Appellate Practice, Antitrust, e-Discovery, Expert Witnesses, Health Care, Product Liability, and more. The collection is keyword search-able and all articles are available full-text in PDF format. Search results includes …
AALL has conducted a State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources. The report presents the results of a survey of primary online legal resources and whether these resources are official and capable of being authenticated. In short, “How trustworthy are state-level primary legal resources on the Web?” The answer (from the executive summary): A …
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has created a handy guide to Filing a Petition for Review : A Guide to Seeking Review in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The nine page document is dated October 2006. Abstract: This is a simplified guide to the Wisconsin Rules of Appellate Procedure with respect to filing petitions for review and …