From the November WSLL @ Your Service newsletter: 2009 After Hours Subscriptions – Now’s the Time! Wisconsin Attorneys: Would you like the convenience of using the State Law Library later in the evening or on …
Month: November 2008
Links to Online Books Added to MadCat Library Catalog
Earlier this week the UW Madison campus libraries added links from the MadCat library catalog to online versions of volumes in Google Books Search or the CIC shared digital repository,HathiTrust. If an item we have …
Legal History, Archives Student Essay Contest
The American Association of Law Libraries announces the first annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Contest. Currently enrolled students attending graduate programs in library science, law, history, or related subjects are eligible to enter the …
Are Major Changes in Store for the LSAT?
From Law.com: UC-Berkeley School of Law researchers say they have identified tests that could be used along with it to better predict success in the practice of law. And the law school’s dean is trying …
CiteGenie Now Captures Citations from Westlaw AND LexisNexis
Thanks to Scott Frey who alerted me to some changes with CiteGenie. If you didn’t catch my earlier post about it, CiteGenie is a new extension for the Firefox web browser that, as its website …
WisBlawg Featured at Blawg.com
I’m honored to report that WisBlawg is one of the featured blogs over at Blawg.com. If you’re not familiar with it, Blawg is a portal of legal blogs. It features a search engine for legal …
GMU Drops EndNote; Goes Ahead with Zotero Sync Preview
From Zotero: George Mason University has released an official statement about the Thomson Reuters lawsuit. The press release is copied below. The Thomson Reuters Corporation has sued the Commonwealth of Virginia over Zotero, a project …
62% of Cambridge Law Students Admit to Plagiarism
The Chronicle of Higher Education blog reports that “Half the students at the University of Cambridge have plagiarized, according to results of a survey by Varsity, a student newspaper at the university…. Law students, the …
Sign up to Receive Notice Before Library Books are Due
Starting November 3, 2008, Madison area public library users will be able to receive an e-mail notice two days before checked out items are due. This service will be available on an “opt-in” basis, so …