2013 WI Act 5, which modifies the establishment of a publication date for acts, quietly went into effect yesterday. According to the Wisconsin Legislative Council the act does several things: Removes the authority of the …
Month: March 2013
Ads from Legal Publishers during Wartime
The AALL Spectrum Online has a very interesting article examining advertisements from legal periodicals and bar publications published during the Second World War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War. “Due to …
Book Madness Tournament
From the UW Madison Libraries: Love the NCAA basketball tourney, but wish it was just a little more … bookish? You’re in luck. The UW-Madison Libraries are hosting our first annual Book Madness Tournament. A …
Film About Public Defenders at WI Film Festival
The Wisconsin Film Festival will be showing Gideon’s Army, a documentary about the daily work lives of three present day public defenders, at the Marquee Theater in Union South on Thursday April 11 at 9:00p. …
Paper is not Dead!
From the Law Library Directors email list, I hope you enjoy this short video demonstrating that Paper is not Dead! It certainly made me laugh.
Top Ten Things Law Librarians Wish Law Students Would Know or Do
In preparation for a session that I’m doing for some of our Legal Research and Writing students next week, I pulled together a list of Top Ten Things Law Librarians Wish Law Students Would Know …