List of Law Library Blogs Updated
I’ve just updated my list of Law Library Blogs and Blogs by Law Librarians or Law Library Associations. There are now 91 such blogs! I’m so pleased that law librarians are making this technology their own.
Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
I’ve just updated my list of Law Library Blogs and Blogs by Law Librarians or Law Library Associations. There are now 91 such blogs! I’m so pleased that law librarians are making this technology their own.
Dave Fishel over at PDF for Lawyers has shared a useful tip on how to create a PDF of an entire Website or selected portions of it. Why would you want to do this?, he asks. You may be doing research on a company for a takeover bid. The work requires you to spend many …
Around this time of year, people often think of donating to charities. Choosing worthy ones, however, can be difficult. GuideStar, from Philanthropic Research, Inc., can help you and your clients make more educated decisions. This Web site provides information about the operations and finances of more than 620,000 nonprofit organizations in the United States. With …
“Browse freely but carry a SpoofStick” is the slogan for Corestreet’s free browser extension that helps users detect spoofed (fake) websites. The heart of most “phishing” schemes, spoofed websites are usually made to look like well known, branded sites, such as citibank.com. The phony URLs often closely resemble the real thing. Phishing for the “accidental …
According to prosecutors in Durham County, NC, a man on trial for murdering his wife Googled the terms “body decomposition,” “rigor mortis,” “neck” and “break,” as well as, downloaded a topical map of a lake bed in the days before he dumped the her remains in the same body of water. According to the article …
EBSCO, provider of well-known databases such as Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Academic Search Elite, and Business Source Elite, will be offering a RSS option for alerts starting early next year. According to the announcement from EBSCO, RSS enabled Alerts will allow librarians and users to feed results from EBSCOhost Search and Journal Alerts …
It’s a close call, but I think that this year’s poinsettia from our LexisNexis reps is even bigger than last year’s model. Note the tiny looking volume of the Wisconsin Statutes Annotated that I placed nearby for comparison. Felly’s delivered the “tree” this morning. Come by to visit it, and us, before I either over …
Kudos to EBSCO for making the database, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) freely available on their Web site. As someone who writes and speaks about the use of technology in libraries, I use LISTA fairly often. From EBSCO: This world-class bibliographic database provides coverage on subjects such as librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online …
From inter alia: Chris Hoofnagle, the Director of EPIC West, presents this nice Consumer Privacy Top 10 list of things you can do with little money, effort, or knowledge of technology. It’s a great list with non-techie things you can do to protect your privacy.
On Friday, I had the pleasure to talk with some librarians from the Southwest Wisconsin Library System on the topic of Blogging @ Your Library. Although the talk was centered around my Powerpoint presentation, it was the dialog with the attendees that really made the program, I thought. Ironically enough, it was a technical glitch …