Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
On Thursday, June 18th, I’ll be giving a talk at the CALI Conference for Law School Computing on Firefox Add-ons. Add-ons are extensions of the browser that add new functionality to Firefox or change its appearance. In preparation, I’ve compiled a list of Firefox Add-ons which may be useful for the legal or library professional. …
I recently received word that the ProQuest Newsstand will no longer be available via Badgerlink after June 30, 2009. Badgerlink, which is available free to all Wisconsin residents thanks to funding from the DPI, is a collection of several subscription databases containing articles from thousands of newspaper and periodical titles, image files, and other reference …
Last Friday, I had the the pleasure of speaking at the Minnesota Association of Law Libraries Spring Conference. My presentation was entitled Emerging Technologies in Law Libraries: It’s Everyone’s Business. I was the keynote speaker and they asked me to give an overview of emerging technologies and how law librarians are using them. I floundered …
The Third Branch newsletter from the Wisconsin court system has several interesting articles: Committee to study impact of allowing unpublished opinion cites Courts welcome 13 new judges; four incumbents re-elected over challenger
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the creation of WisBlawg. Thanks to my faithful readers. I hope that you’ve enjoyed reading the blog as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it. (Image from Flickr)
Open Jurist is a new (I think) database of free US Supreme Court and Federal Appellate opinions. It joins a number of other sites which offer federal opinions, such as Altlaw, PreCYdent, Public Library of Law, Justia and FindACase. However, the coverage for Open Jurist extends farther back in time than do the others. It …
The UW Law School now has a Twitter feed. Marquette University Law School has a feed as well. For a list of other law schools on Twitter, see the Social Media Law Student.
WiLS (Wisconsin Library Services) has recently announced a new Digitization on Demand service. This service will provide complete digital copies of works from UW Madison Memorial Library’s Special Collections and the Mills Music library that are within public domain. Works will be scanned in their entirety for a library patron to use at their point …
From the U.S. Courts Web site: The daily cost of keeping someone imprisoned in a federal Bureau of Prisons facility was $70.75 in fiscal year 2008, and $65.25 in a community correction center. By comparison, the daily cost of supervision by federal probation officers was $10.23.
The Philadelphia Bar Association recently issued an advisory opinion stating that it is unethical to have a third party “friend” a witness on Facebook for the purpose of gaining information about that person. From the opinion: The inquirer believes that the [Facebook & MySpace] pages maintained by the witness may contain information relevant to the …