Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
According to a government documents listserv email from Judith C. Russell, Superintendent of Documents and Managing Director at the U.S. Government Printing Office, the Judiciary is considering a one year pilot project to assess the effect of offering free public access to PACER through the Federal Depository Library Program. (What’s PACER?) Currently, PACER is available …
Over the last year or so, several search engines have been released that let you search inside books (Google Books, Amazon Search Inside/A9 & MSN Live Book Search). But there has never been a way, until now, to search them all simultaneously. Developer Kokogiak notes that there are some big differences in the type of …
Law.com’s Legal Technology section has a useful article by Robert Ambrogi entitled, Superior Legal Web Sites to Watch. There are a number of good sites listed, but one that struck me was Judicial Reports. Ambrogi writes: What Consumer Reports does for appliances and Zagat does for restaurants, a new Web site aims to do for …
Free Adobe for Legal Professionals eSeminar: In conjunction with LLRX, Adobe is hosting a free eSeminar on Acrobat 8: Top Features for Legal Professionals. The eSeminar, to be be held on Thursday, January 25, 2007,1:00 PM – 2:00 PM US/Eastern, will cover how to create PDF files from Microsoft Office, the web and other programs, …
From the Christian Science Monitor: How to go to M.I.T. for free By the end of this year, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at one of the world’s most prestigious universities will be available online to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world. Learners won’t have to register for the classes, and …
The Wisconsin Law Journal has a nice article on UW Law profs, Stewart Macaulay and Marc Galanter, who each had an article included in the “The Canon of American Legal Thought,” an anthology looking at the top 20 works in American legal thought since 1890. From the article: Macaulay’s contribution was his 1963 article, “Non-Contractual …
To better reflect it’s purpose as the official web portal of the U.S. government, FirstGov.gov has changed its named to USA.gov. A Spanish version is also available.
TVC Alert reports: The Wisconsin Court of Appeals last week ruled that in accordance with the state’s open access law, PDF copies of information in a database do not substitute for access to the database. Therefore, the municipalities violated public records law when they denied plaintiff access to the information in the format it which …
From Law Librarian Blog: A group of students in Stanford Law’s advanced legal research class created a short (3 minute) silent film, Legal Research: The Movie. Fantastic! I guess the movie isn’t a “talkie” because some scenes were filmed in the law library.
The UW Law Library has recently upgraded our IM/chat reference service with a new tool called Plugoo. We’ve added a text chat box to our home page inviting our students, faculty, and staff to contact us with reference questions. And it was free and easy. Interested in developing a chat service for your organization? Just …