Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Criminal Searches is a new site that allows you to do just what its name implies – run a criminal history check on specific people or generally for a geographic area. From an AP story: Created by the folks behind PeopleFinders.com, the new site crunches monthly government data down to the state and county level, …
Two librarians from Stanford Law School, J. Paul Lomio and Erika V. Wayne, have recently published the results of their study analyzing law librarians opinions on LexisNexis v. Westlaw. As costs for research tools, both online and paper, continue to increase, librarians are often faced with the difficult decision of what materials can and should …
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports on the use of RFID in Milwaukee area libraries. West Allis is among a handful of local libraries in Milwaukee County — including Greenfield, Wauwatosa and Franklin — that are moving from a bar code system of tracking materials to radio frequency identification, or RFID. Using scanners to detect tiny …
Once again, it’s time to nominate your favorite legal support staff for the Wisconsin Law Journal’s Unsung Heroes award. From the Web site: Lawyers in Wisconsin do terrific work. But where would they be without the members of their support staff who, behind the scenes, quietly make it all happen? In the fast-paced, demanding legal …
July 27-August 1is Madison Magazine’s Summer Restaurant Week. During these six days, Madison’s finest restaurants will offer three special, fixed-price, three course menus for just $25 per person. A list of participating restaurants is available at the Madison Magazine Web site. Thanks to my colleague, Cindy May for the tip. Many of these restaurants have …
I was doing some research in HeinOnline this afternoon and was surprised to find that they now have an article citator. When viewing an article, there is a link to “Articles That Cite This Article” at the very top. Nice. According to the HeinOnline Weblog, this feature was added in May.
HeinOnline has announced that it will soon be adding Subject Compilations of State Laws as an a-la-carte library module. According to the HeinOnline Weblog This database contains references to more than 17,000 sources of 50-state surveys published in law review articles, books, court briefs and opinions, federal and state government publications, and loose-leaf services. Researchers …
The Milwaukee Public Library has recently made available a collection of historic Milwaukee photographs. The library’s collection consists of over 50,000 photographs of Milwaukee dating from the late 19th century to the present, although only a fraction of these are yet available online. For more historic images, see the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society …
The Wisconsin State Journal has named the UW Law Library as one of the best “quiet” places in Madison. Searching for solitude? Nothing beats the void-like hush of UW–Madison’s Law Library. Open to the public, its five floors offer nooks, crannies and the kind of heavy silence that could make mimes squirm. Now before you …
Are you interested in learning about applications like blogs, wikis, and Second Life, but don’t have a lot of time? Take the AALL Computing Service Special Interest Section’s Web 2.0 Challenge! The Web 2.0 Challenge — a free, comprehensive, and interactive online course — will use hands-on exercises to introduce many kinds of social technologies …