More news from Bruce Hoesly at the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau: The LRB has added an archive of superseded Administrative Code pages that were replaced between Register 1 (1956) and Register 541 (2001).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 …
Year: 2009
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WI Admin Code Questions Answered: Paperless Rationale, Upgrades to Web Format, Superseded Code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 …
Madison Police Dept Offers Free Classes for Parents on Internet Safety
The Madison Police Department is offering free classes on Internet Safety, Text Messaging, MySpace, and Facebook. The classes are geared toward parents. Classes will be held at various locations in Madison. Dates, times and locations …
Reaction to Court-Appointed Attorneys Seeking Higher Pay
Carolyn Elefant over at Law.com’s Legal Blog Watch comments on Wisconsin Court-Appointed Lawyers Seeking Higher Pay. For more info about Assembly Bill 224 regarding the reimbursement rate for private attorneys appointed by the State Public …