Dumb Criminals on MySpace
In the category of dumb criminals, JS Online has an article about people bragging about their crimes on MySpace – complete with photos. Of course, it doesn’t take long before the police come knocking at their doors.
Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
In the category of dumb criminals, JS Online has an article about people bragging about their crimes on MySpace – complete with photos. Of course, it doesn’t take long before the police come knocking at their doors.
GPO has announced that authenticated Public and Private Laws for the 110th Congress are now available on GPO Access as a searchable and browseable application in beta form. GPO’s Authentication initiative focuses on the primary objective of assuring users that the information made available by GPO is official and authentic… The Public and Private Laws …
It’s been reported on the GOVDOC-L listserv that Hein Online is scheduled to release some significant collections soon, including the following: Congressional Record Annals of Congress Register of Debates Congressional Globe Journals of the Continental Congress American State Papers According to the post, this collection will begin to appear in June 2007, with the remainder …
Law.com reports that the 7th Circuit has recently created a wiki. According to Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook, who spearheaded the project, “the goal is to concentrate on procedure (in both the court of appeals and the district courts) but not to cover substance.” To contribute to the wiki, see the Registration page. Source: Slaw
I’m down in Chicago today attending the Back to the Future of Legal Research Symposium. The morning session has been very thought provoking. We heard from Mary Alice Baish of the American Association of Law Libraries who spoke about efforts (or lack thereof) of state and federal governments to provide official, authentic legal materials in …
The latest edition of Law Library Journal is out and it contains articles from the symposium on Legal Information and the Development of American Law: Further Thinking about the Thoughts of Robert C. Berring. Included is Should Legal Research Be Included on the Bar Exam? An Exploration of the Question by the UW Law Library’s …
Although the site still says it’s under construction, WisconsinEye is scheduled to broadcast its first live gavel-to-gavel Internet coverage of the state Assembly and Senate at 11 a.m. today. According to JSOnline PoliticsWatch: WisconsinEye has also finalized agreements for digital channels to be available on the Charter and TimeWarner cable system in Wisconsin, said WisconsinEye …
From OCLC: The University of Washington Libraries is the first to pilot WorldCat Local, a new service that builds on WorldCat.org to allow Web access to the world’s richest database for discovery of materials held in libraries. The goal of the pilot is to provide users with a single search and request service that covers …
There is an interesting article entitled “Are You Podcasting: Current Uses of Podcasts in Law Libraries” in the May issue of AALL Spectrum. Although they haven’t caught on as quickly as blogs have (there are currently 116 law library blogs), some law librarians are experiment with podcasting. The article highlights the podcasting projects from numerous …
In an amendment to the proposed 2007 state budget (Senate Bill 40), it appears that the Wisconsin Revisor of Statutes Bureau may be eliminated as an agency. The amendment (LRB b 0074/2) transfers most of the statutory functions to Legislative Reference Bureau except for the Administrative Register which will go to the Legislative Council. The …