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 …
Year: 2008
LSAT, etc. Online Exam Prep Tool Free at Public Library
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 …
WisBlawg Finally Listed on Technorati
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 …
Review of Free Citators Available in AltLaw & PreCYdent
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 …
RSS Feeds for US Code Updates
Cornell’s Legal Information Institute has recently introduced RSS feeds for the US Code. Feeds are available by title only. Source: Law Librarian Blog
CS-SIS Election & Web 2.0 Challenge
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 …
Twitter and the Legal Profession
There has been a lot of discussion lately about Twitter and its applications for the legal profession. Twitter is a free micro-blog service in which people answer the question “What are you doing?” in 140 …
Sunil Rao's Review of Professional Convict's Tale in the International Journal of Legal Information
I’m pleased to share that my colleague, Sunil Rao, has written a review of the Professional Convict’s Tale: The Survival of John O’Neill In and Out of Prison which appears in the latest International Journal …
Harvard Law Faculty Votes for 'Open Access' to Scholarly Articles
Earlier this month, the Harvard Law School faculty unanimously voted to make each faculty member’s scholarly articles available online for free, making HLS the first law school to commit to a mandatory open access policy. …
The Gargoyle Winter/Spring 2008 Edition Online
The Winter/Spring 2008 edition of The Gargoyle is now available online. The Gargoyle is the alumni magazine of the University of Wisconsin Law School. Here is a list of featured articles: Studying the Police The …