Best Time to Buy Everything
From LibrarianInBlack: SmartMoney offers advice on the Best Time to Buy Everything, from clothing to gas to groceries. There are some good ideas there, and some interesting take-away tips.
Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From LibrarianInBlack: SmartMoney offers advice on the Best Time to Buy Everything, from clothing to gas to groceries. There are some good ideas there, and some interesting take-away tips.
Here’s one from Law Librarian Blog: Check out twitter.com/HouseFloor which distributes live updates from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, updated every five minutes with any new information from The Office of the Clerk of the House. [What’s Twitter?]
The Shifted Librarian reports that EBSCO has finally embraced RSS. To test it out, do a search in an EBSCO database, such as Academic Search Elite which is freely available to all Wisconsinites via Badgerlink. On your search results page, notice the orange RSS button which appears at the top. Click on this will give …
Kudos to Mary Whisner and crew for the new blog, Legal Conference Watch. The reference department of the Gallagher Law Library of the University of Washington School of Law developed this blog in response to a faculty request for help learning about upcoming conferences. Attending and, if possible, presenting papers at conferences is a great …
The Wisconsin History Society has a lot of interesting RSS feeds, including one highlighting old photographs from it’s archives. This photo came around last week. A group of young men is sitting in a darkened, smoky-looking theater. On the screen is a quote from Jay Gould: “I can hire one-half of the working class to …
Looks like The New York Times may stop charging readers for online access to its TimesSelect service which features Op-Ed columnists and other content, says the New York Post. After much internal debate, Times executives – including publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. – made the decision to end the subscription-only TimesSelect service but have yet to …
I stayed up late last night reading The Book Thief: The True Crimes of Daniel Spiegelman which was written by fellow law librarian, Travis McDade. Here’s a good description that I found on Amazon: The Book Thief tells the real life story of Daniel Spiegelman, who took a turn stealing rare books and manuscripts from …
NewsGator, a company specializing in information delivery via RSS, is offering a free Webinar titled “Enterprise RSS for the Legal Profession” on August 21st, 2:00 ET. I expect they will be demoing NewsGator Enterprise Server which according to their Web site “helps organizations take news and updates from the Web, the blogosphere, premium content providers …
Law.com has an intriguing article on lawyering in Second Life, an online simulated universe with more than 8 million users. And while Second Life might initially seem like make-believe or child’s play, the firm [Greenberg & Lieberman] is filing real trademark applications, landing real clients and making real money through the virtual world. By Lieberman’s …
There is a very good article on CNet about all the wonderful resources and services you can get for free at or from public libraries. It includes databases, e-books, audio books, and “your own personal librarian” (i.e. reference assistance). Source: Oregon Legal Research