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The December issue of the Dane Co Legal Resource Center Newsletter is now available. It includes an overview of new outreach programming for 2005.

From the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society: In a Northern District of Illinois case, a judge held that the archived copies of a web site (taken from the Wayback Machine) “were not themselves statements susceptible to hearsay exclusion, since they merely showed what [plaintiff] had previously posted on its site. [The judge] …

It looks like THOMAS, the Legislative Info System from the Library of Congress is being redesigned. According to a press release, the updated site will be released on January 4th. Here are illustrations of the major changes: (Please note that the pages below are for information and illustration only. Searches and links on the pages …

Starting in October, audio of Wisconsin Supreme Court rules hearings is now available on the Internet. The Wisconsin Court System site offers both live proceedings and an online audio archive. Rules petitions are also available in PDF format. Source: The Third Branch

Big news from Google – they have just launched a search service called Google Scholar which searches the Web “specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports” Where available, some sources are labeled by type, such as “book,” “citation,” “pdf,” etc. Book results offer the option of a “Library …

From The Wisconsin Lawyer – Legal News & Trends: The State Law Library’s After Hours Service, available by subscription to all Wisconsin-licensed lawyers, allows access to the library from 7 to 8 a.m. and 5 to 10 p.m. weekdays, and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekends. Regular library hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. …

Look for a new version of the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to arrive before the new year. The new release will feature enhanced collaboration tools including a commenting feature. Read more in the CNet article, Adobe to update PDF tools Source: ResourceShelf

A few weeks ago, we mentioned that you can use Google and Yahoo to find out if a library in your area has a particular item. To do a search, remember that you go to either Google or Yahoo and enter the search find in a library: Da Vinci Code Now, Yahoo has made it …

It seems that the practice of running criminal background checks on potential jurors by Hamilton County, Ohio prosecutors has prompted a request for a new trial. According to the article, Jurors Checked for Criminal Past: Timothy Jordan, charged with aggravated murder, asked a judge this week for a new trial on grounds that Allen’s office …

Online bank users beware. From the Strategiy article, New technique for stealing financial information from computer users: Researchers from SurfControl’s Global Threat Command Centers this week identified a technique used to exploit flaws in the Web sites for SunTrust Bank and Citibank Australia. Phishers substituted the legitimate content of the Citibank and Sun Trust’s Web …