Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
John Mayer of CALI has posted the end-of-semester survey results for the Legal Education Podcasting Project. The survey is on the perceptions of law students enrolled in courses in which the professor also podcast the lectures. The results are quite interesting. Here are some of the findings: 38.4% of students listened to most or all …
There is a fascinating bit in Odd Wisconsin today. It seems “that for the first few years of Wisconsin’s existence, not even legislators could get their hands on a copy of the laws.” “They certainly tried. When Wisconsin was created as a territory on July 4, 1836, the laws of Michigan Territory as printed in …
The Wisconsin State Journal has an interesting article on one of the biggest trends to hit the Web: YouTube.com, an amateur video Web site. The paper reports that Madison film making duo Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan have had almost a million viewers download their YouTube short film “Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager, Episode 1” …
Southern Illinois University Law Librarians Diane Murley and Amber Hewette have written a new book entitled, Law for the Layperson: An Annotated Bibliography of Self-help Law Books. It is available from Hein and Amazon. Nearly 1,000 self-help books and other resources are reviewed and classified by topic and jurisdiction. The book is intended to help …
From Today’s Onion*: Wikipedia, the online, reader-edited encyclopedia, honored the 750th anniversary of American independence on July 25 with a special featured section on its main page Tuesday. *Don’t you believe it. The Onion is fake – but darn funny. Thanks to Bill Ebbott for the tip.
From Librarian in Black: Free411 (1-800-Free 411 / 1-800-373-3411) is a completely automated free directory assistance service that works on cell and land lines. I know my cell phone carrier charges $1.50 for each directory assistance call. No longer will I fall for that! Just call the number, give the city and state, choose whether …
The latest edition of the Google Librarian Newsletter is now available. Featured is the “Tips of the Trade” campaign in which Google invited librarians to send them tips, ideas, and stories about innovative ways they’ve used Google tools to help patrons find information. Google produced a short movie which was featured at the ALA (American …
From BoleyBlogs: Fordham University School of Law has recently created LawClinic.TV, a video blog whose purpose is “to showcase the clinical community and provide a place for one piece of our ongoing conversation about legal education, justice, community, equality, the rule of law and so much else.” (via About LawClinic.TV) Each blog entry contains brief, …
If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend that you take a look at Beyond the Books which appeared in the July issue of The American Lawyer. Author Alan Cohen discusses the changing nature of law librarianship and what it can mean for a law firm’s bottom line. Here are some of the highlights …
The June issue of Law Practice has an interesting article about the difference between Gen X and Gen Y jurors. In The Newer Generations in the Jury Box: Who Will Favor Your Cause? the author contends that: Generation X jurors tend to: Want more data and the source behind it but presented in a concise, …