Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau has created an outstanding guide to Researching Legislative History In Wisconsin. Complete with illustrations, it offers step-by-step guidance on researching Wisconsin legislation. The steps include: Determine what session law created the language being researched; Examine the bill, its analysis, its amendments, and other associated documents; Review the drafting record for …
From BoingBoing: “To rid a park of hooligans in a Sydney suburb, the town council began playing Barry Manilow and Doris Day music at high volume from 9-midnight every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evening. The tactic worked, but now the people who live near the park can’t sleep at night and are unhappy about it.” …
Thanks to some great new blogs I learned about at the AALL Annual Meeting, the list of Law Library Blogs and Blogs by Law Librarians or Law Library Associations now stands at 102!
Once again, I’ve come back from the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting energized and full of ideas. As always, I’m amazed at the dedication and creativity of my colleagues. I also had a great time exploring St. Louis between sessions and meetings. Here are just a few of the highlights: Attending the informal …
Kyle MacDonald has done it: traded a paper clip up to a house. Read more at Reuters Oddly Enough.
The Christian Science Monitor reports that Kentucky has blocked state employee’s access to “blogs as well as humor, religion, and online auction websites after it was deemed that [they] were spending too much time on the Internet.” This is a bad idea. Granted, there are lots of blogs that do nothing to advance work flow …
I’m off to St. Louis for the American Association of Law Libraries Annual meeting so posting on WisBlawg will probably be light next week. However, I may be posting about the meeting on AALL Gateway, the conference blog.
Looking for an easy way to catalog your personal library of books, movies, music, comic books, etc.? If you are a Mac user, check out Delicious Monster. Strange name, I know, but this looks like a really neat tool. Makes me wish I had a Mac – and a personal library worth cataloging! From The …
InterDok has announced that it is offering the Directory of Published Proceedings (DoPP) freely available on the Internet. DoPP indexes published conference proceedings in science, engineering, medice, social science and humanities. There are over 280,000 records available. InterDok does also offer an Acquisitions Service if you wish to purchase any of the indexed proceedings. But, …
One of those magical pursuits of childhood, my kids have a fascination with catching fireflies. Last weekend, equipped with butterfly net and bug house, we journeyed to Lake Kegonsa State Park for what turned out to be a very soggy camping trip. But just a twilight Saturday night, there was a break in the rain …