Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From Robert Ambrogi’s Law Sites: Anyone interested in blawgs as a phenomenon within the legal profession should read the results of the readership survey conducted by Bruce MacEwen for his blog, Adam Smith, Esq. The results are interesting for what they reveal about Bruce’s readers, but even more so for the glimpse they offer into …
I recently learned that Marquette Law School has two new resources available via RSS. Library M. Usements, the Law Library’s blog, contains library and legal news Marquette Law Daily is a RSS feed from the Law School with links to news stories mentioning the school
ABC has gotten into the podcasting game with feeds for Nightline, Good Morning America, The Afternote (politics), and several other programs. You can listen the programs via the Web and/or subscribe to their podcast feeds. Source: AbsTracked
TIME Magazine has a story on Wikipedia, the free open-source encyclopedia that anyone can edit. The world’s largest online encyclopedia, controversial Wikipedia has 500,000+ entries in English alone. The author also discusses wikis a business application: A wiki is a deceptively simple piece of software (little more than five lines of computer code) that you …
According to NBC15, WisconsinEye is scheduled to begin broadcasting in January. A “state-wide version of C-SPAN,” the public affairs television channel will broadcast state legislative activities.
A Chicago Tribune article reports that patrons of the Naperville Public Library System will soon be asked for a fingerprint scan before using a library computer. Users may, however, choose to have a library staff member log them on. Apparently, it is the second library system in the U.S. to employ such a system. From …
Robert Ambrogi reports that a new service called PatentMojo: . . . enables patent professionals to create watchlists for patent searches and monitor them through RSS feeds. . . Its users are able to create watchlists using any search criteria. The service searches the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office data daily and delivers updates via …
Back when I was a law firm librarian, I can remember being asked all the time to locate legal forms. And it’s not always easy. For some good advice, check out DCLRC Blawg’s latest legal research tip on finding legal forms. It covers mandatory court forms, county specific forms, forms on the Internet, form manuals, …
Connie Von Der Heide of the Wisconsin State Law Library reports that the Wisconsin Humanities Council is coordinating a statewide book discussion series entitled, A More Perfect Union: The Common Defense. Discussion kits are available from the WHC. Series description: The second A More Perfect Union book discussion series explores the founders’ mandate “to provide …
There was an interesting article in Wednesday’s Capital Times about School Information System, a blog about the Madison school system which is “seen as a growing force in local school politics and policy.” According to the article, School Information System blogger, Jim Zellmer, believes that “The news media here pays too little attention to schools. …