Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
According to JS Online, Milwaukee Public Library is investigating the idea of creating three express libraries where patrons could access library materials and services at convenient places, such as supermarkets, coffee shops, or the airport. At each express library, patrons could check out or return books or other items they had ordered over the Internet; …
Both PreCYdent and AltLaw have come out with citators. Remember that these are both public-domain search engines offering cases and statutes for free on the Internet. AltLaw When viewing a case in AltLaw, you’ll notice that cases cited by your case appear on the left and cases which cite it are on the right. Both …
Cornell’s Legal Information Institute has recently introduced RSS feeds for the US Code. Feeds are available by title only. Source: Law Librarian Blog
There has been a lot of discussion lately about Twitter and its applications for the legal profession. Twitter is a free micro-blog service in which people answer the question “What are you doing?” in 140 characters or less. Although many have questioned whether such a tool could have any practical application at all, for better …
I’m pleased to share that my colleague, Sunil Rao, has written a review of the Professional Convict’s Tale: The Survival of John O’Neill In and Out of Prison which appears in the latest International Journal of Legal Information (v. 35, no. 3, winter 2007, pp. 576-579.) Sunil is UW Law Library’s Foreign Law Librarian. Both …
Earlier this month, the Harvard Law School faculty unanimously voted to make each faculty member’s scholarly articles available online for free, making HLS the first law school to commit to a mandatory open access policy. From the press release: Under the new policy, HLS will make articles authored by faculty members available in an online …
The Winter/Spring 2008 edition of The Gargoyle is now available online. The Gargoyle is the alumni magazine of the University of Wisconsin Law School. Here is a list of featured articles: Studying the Police The Law School’s pioneering program of researching and teaching about the police is beginning a new chapter in the age of …
Thanks to my colleague, Cindy May, for alerting me to a neat new visual search engine called SearchMe.com. It is currently in beta. As you enter your search, categories appear across the top which you can click to just view results in that category. Or, you can search all and see all results. Results are …
We were saddened to learn of the death of Law Library titan, Roy M. Mersky. Law Librarian Blog reports: Professor Roy M. Mersky died yesterday from complications of a recent fall. A member of the University of Texas-Austin School of Law faculty and the director of its law library since 1965, Mersky held the Harry …
From SF List (via Tame the Web): Starting sometime in April, library books will be available at Contra Costa County BART stations via “ATM style lending machines.” A new program called Library-a-Go-Go, along with the Contra Costa County Library, will allow BART riders to simply swipe a card, select a book, wait for said book …