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Month: May 2008

List of Law Libraries in Facebook

Posted on May 29, 2008

Jennifer L. Behrens of Duke Law Library has compiled a list of law library pages on Facebook. See UW Law Library’s Facebook page which appears on the list. For more about how law libraries are …

Posted in Libraries & Librarians

Dr. Biddy Martin Picked as Next UW-Madison Chancellor

Posted on May 29, 2008

It was announced yesterday that Dr. Carolyn “Biddy” Martin has been recommended as the next UW-Madison chancellor by the Board of Regents. There has been a lot of discussion and speculation about Dr. Martin on …

Posted in UW Madison

WisBlawg Turns Four

Posted on May 29, 2008

I’m pleased to share that WisBlawg recently celebrated its fourth birthday. Thanks to all of you loyal readers for sticking with me!

Posted in Blog Administration

Milwaukee Public Library Considers Express Libraries for Supermarkets, Airport, Etc.

Posted on May 27, 2008

According to JS Online, Milwaukee Public Library is investigating the idea of creating three express libraries where patrons could access library materials and services at convenient places, such as supermarkets, coffee shops, or the airport. …

Posted in Libraries & Librarians

Microsoft Closes the Book on Digitization

Posted on May 27, 2008

From Microsoft’s Live Search blog: Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week. Books and …

Posted in Search Engines

LSAT, etc. Online Exam Prep Tool Free at Public Library

Posted on May 23, 2008

Know anyone that’s taking the LSAT soon? How about the SAT, ACT or GRE? If so, direct them to LearningExpressLibrary, an interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series. It has immediate …

Posted in Uncategorized

WisBlawg Finally Listed on Technorati

Posted on May 22, 2008

After several years of trying to get WisBlawg listed on Technorati, I think that I can finally do so. For some reason it was inadvertently marked as spam. Technorati is a search engine for blogs …

Posted in Search Engines

Review of Free Citators Available in AltLaw & PreCYdent

Posted on May 21, 2008

Both PreCYdent and AltLaw have come out with citators. Remember that these are both public-domain search engines offering cases and statutes for free on the Internet. AltLaw When viewing a case in AltLaw, you’ll notice …

Posted in Courts

RSS Feeds for US Code Updates

Posted on May 21, 2008

Cornell’s Legal Information Institute has recently introduced RSS feeds for the US Code. Feeds are available by title only. Source: Law Librarian Blog

Posted in Legislation & Regs

CS-SIS Election & Web 2.0 Challenge

Posted on May 19, 2008

I’m honored to report that I’ve been elected Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of the Computing Services Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Librarians. As our name implies, we’re the techie group in AALL. Officially, “the …

Posted in Libraries & Librarians
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