Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The ALA Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has named Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2006. Highlights include: AF: Acronym Finder Constitution Finder E-how How Products are Made In the first person: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives And there are lots of other really interesting sites. Definitely worth …
Yesterday, I received this notice from the Wisconsin Legislative Notification Service: The Wisconsin Legislative Notification Service will be temporarily unavailable until January 4th, 2007. During this time the 2005-2006 legislative session data will be removed from the system. This includes proposals, committees, author information, etc, as well as your subscriptions for notifications to these items. …
I’m please to report that my article, Too Much Information: Filtering RSS Feeds, appears in the Winter 2006 issue of Connecting…, the newsletter of the AALL Computing Services Special Interest Section. In the article, I offer instructions for: Filtering blog content using Google Blog Search and Feedster Filtering other RSS feeds with Feed Rinse Combining …
From Inter Alia: Free Software…..Every Day I’ve been a big fan of Giveaway of the Day for about a month now. It’s a site that offers fully licensed software to you every day — a different title — for free. Software developers are giving away free copies of their software for one day only — …
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections has recently digitized additional volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States. It now covers 311 volumes from 1861 to 1958/1960. The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for …
It seems that libraries are big news today – and none of it is good: Today’s New York Times has a story entitled, Lock the Library! Rowdy Students Are Taking Over. This one is truly sad. It seems that a NJ public library has seen no alternative but to close its doors during afterschool hours …