Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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From a WI Department of Transportation press release: Motorists can now get up-to-the-minute travel information by either dialing 511 or going to a new Web site offered by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. The Web site, www.511wi.gov, provides travelers with traffic and road information on Wisconsin’s main highways, including the Interstate system. The new Web …
From UW Madison News: Robert Lee Stinson, a Milwaukee man convicted of homicide in 1985, is expected to be released from prison today (Jan. 30, 2009) based on new evidence of his innocence. Stinson’s attorneys with the Wisconsin Innocence Project and Milwaukee County District Attorney Norm Gahn have agreed that the new evidence — consisting …
Have you been hearing the buzz about social networking but aren’t sure if it’s worth your time and effort to check it out? What is social networking? What possible use could it be to a legal professional, you ask? Practicing Law in the 21st Century has written a good post which asks Can Lawyers Afford …
I’m a heavy user of our local public library. I love that I can go online, put things on hold, and then pick them up at my leisure. Keeping track of when things come in and when they are due back again can be a hassle, however. Enter Library Elf, a handy little service which …
Variety reports that Warner Bros. Pictures has hired Mark Burton to pen the bigscreen adaptation of James Turner’s comicbook “Rex Libris,” about an everyday guy who becomes part of a secret sect of librarians who battle forces of darkness in chasing down overdue or stolen books. Source: PLI Library Relations
This one is just for UW-Madison folks: The UW Madison Libraries have created a remote access bookmarklet. Why should I care, you might ask? Imagine that you want to access one of the databases to which the UW-Madison Libraries subscribe, such as Hein Online. So you do a Google search for Hein Online and come …
“Zotero helps you collect and manage citations. Zotz helps you make them public.” From Zotero: The Zotero team is making solid progress on a variety of collaborative features. But, if you want to publish and share items today, you might be interested in Zotz. The Zotz plugin allows you to publish Zotero collections through MIT’s …
A new system called Federal Digital System (FDsys) is slated to replace GPO Access. GPO’s FDsys is an advanced digital system that will enable GPO to manage Government information in a digital form. According to the FDsys Current Status report: The information on GPO Access is in the process of being migrated to FDsys, a …
The Wisconsin State Journal reports that Madison is participating in a new online service that allows members of the public to monitor crime in their neighborhoods. CrimeReports.com allows users to zero in on a map of the city and view recent crimes within the vicinity (excluding traffic citations and crashes).. They can also sign up …