As I posted earlier this month, the American Association of Law Libraries Computing Services Special Interest Section is sponsoring the Web 2.0 Challenge again this summer. The Challenge is five-week online course that will introduce …
Month: June 2009
UW Law Library Releases Digitized Papers of J. Willard Hurst, Father of Modern American Legal History
The University of Wisconsin Law Library is very pleased to announce the release of the J. Willard Hurst Collection which details the career of the man commonly identified as the father of modern American legal …
Superseded WI Admin Code Added to LRB Website
More news from Bruce Hoesly at the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau: The LRB has added an archive of superseded Administrative Code pages that were replaced between Register 1 (1956) and Register 541 (2001). Not all …
Forthcoming Loislaw Enhancements & Widgets
In the recent Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin newsletter, Nancy Scibelli of Quarles & Brady describes some forthcoming Loislaw enhancements and widgets: Wolters Kluwer will be making a number of enhancements to Loislaw this summer …
WI Admin Code Questions Answered: Paperless Rationale, Upgrades to Web Format, Superseded Code
Bruce Hoesly, Revising Attorney/Code Editor at the Legislative Reference Bureau, tells me that the survey which I posted here last week on whether the Wisconsin Admin Code should go paperless generated quite a bit of …
Law Libraries Using LibGuides
LibGuides is a “web 2.0 library knowledge sharing system” offered by the company Springshare. LibGuides is growing in popularity among all kinds of libraries, including law libraries as a platform for creating web-based research guides. …
The Next Time You Receive a Corrupted File…
The next time you receive a corrupted file from a student, you may want to think twice. Thanks to one of our faculty members for passing this one on: From Inside Higher Ed: Corrupted-Files.com offers …
LexOpus, a Free Online Law Review Submission Service
Washington and Lee Law School has launched a free online law review submission service called LexOpus. From the About page: The system allows an author to submit a work to a sequence of author-selected law …
Thomson Reuter's Lawsuit Against Zotero Dismissed
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that “a Virginia Circuit Court judge dismissed a lawsuit this morning against George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media. Thomson Reuters Inc. had sued the university in …
Two New Search Engines – Bing and Google Squared
There has been a lot of buzz the last several days about two new search engines – Bing, from Microsoft, and Google Squared. Bing Here’s a good description of Bing from SearchEngineWatch More than just …