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Month: December 2011

Mobile App for PACER Access Free for Limited Time

Posted on December 20, 2011

FedCtRecords is a iPhone/iPad app which allows registered PACER users to search and retrieve documents. It is free for a limited time. According to the support page, you can: * Search Attorney and Party names …

Posted in Courts

Portage Co Joins CCAP to Complete Statewide Integration

Posted on December 15, 2011

Earlier this month, Portage County joined Wisconsin’s Consolidated Court Automation Programs (CCAP) electronic case-management system. Since it was the last of Wisconsin’s 72 counties to join, CCAP now has complete statewide integration. For more information, …

Posted in Courts

Index to Legal Periodicals No Longer Available via LexisNexis

Posted on December 12, 2011

According to the Law Library Directors’ listserv, Index to Legal Periodicals (ILP) will no longer be available through LexisNexis at the request of the publisher. It is unknown whether it will continue to be available …

Posted in Data & Databases

CAPTCHAs Being Used to Help Digitize Books with Poor OCR Accuracy

Posted on December 12, 2011

CAPTCHAs are those distorted letters that you have to enter after some internet transactions to verify that you’re actually a human. I recently learned that some CAPTCHAs are being used to help digitize old printed …

Posted in Digitization

Follow the UW Law Library on Facebook and Twitter

Posted on December 6, 2011

Did you know that the UW Law Library has both a Facebook page and a Twitter feed? Follow us to learn about library announcements, special hours, new publications, etc. Note that the Twitter feed is …

Posted in UW Law School

Zotero Mobile Apps Allow you Scan Books, Edit Library

Posted on December 5, 2011

I’ve mentioned several times how much I like and use Zotero, the “powerful, easy-to-use research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources and then share the results of your research.” Capturing citation information …

Posted in Tools

Restyled Federal Rules of Evidence Effective Today

Posted on December 1, 2011

On April 26, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court approved restyled amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence. The amendments became effective today, December 1, 2011. For more information about the restyling, see The Third Branch. …

Posted in Courts

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