From the Wisconsin State Journal: Former UW Law School Dean George Bunn, a noted nuclear arms expert and negotiator, died of spinal cancer Sunday in Palo Alto, Calif., said his son Matthew Bunn. He was …
Year: 2013
Happy National Library Week!
Stop by the Law Library this week and help us celebrate National Library Week! READ Poster View this year’s poster featuring Steve Barkan, Professor of Law and Director of the Law School Library – On …
WI Act 5 Changes Publication and Effectiveness Process for Acts – Removes Authority of Sec of State
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 …
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 …
Thomson Reuters Sells Law School Publishing Division
By Kris Turner, Reference and Technology Services Librarian Thomson Reuters has officially gotten out of print publishing for law schools. On Friday, February 2nd, the publishing wing of the legal research giant was sold to …
Digital Commons Network Makes Open Access Articles More Accessible
bepress recently launched a new product called The Digital Commons Network. It indexes and makes available scholarship contained in the broad network of open access institutional repositories that use the Digital Commons platform. Digital Common …