Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The AALL Day in the Life of the Law Library Community photo contest is in the final stage of judging. From nearly 200 entries, two UW Law Library entries have made it into the finals. Ours are in the Librarians as Trailblazers in New Technology and Most Humorous categories. This week, April 16-23, AALL members …
In celebration of National Library Week, the UW Law Library is proud to unveil our second annual series of READ posters featuring UW Law School faculty members. This year’s posters feature Ken Davis, Allison Christians, and Jim Jones. We’ll also have contests and giveaways all week for our students, faculty, and staff. Looks like the …
“The Googlization of Everything: Digitization and the Future of Books” is the topic of a UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies lecture to be held May 12th. Speaker Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of the “Anarchist in the Library,” is considered one of the foremost speakers in the world on digital rights, electronic communication and the ethics of …
From Library Boy: LEGISinfo, the Library of Parliament’s legislative research website, has started offering RSS feeds since the beginning of this parliamentary session to help people track bills before the House of Commons and the Senate. In the lefthand column on the LEGISinfo home page, simply click on any of the links to Senate or …
Litilaw is a new, free online collection of CLE materials and other articles of interest to litigators and other legal professionals. Articles are organized categories including Appellate Practice, Antitrust, e-Discovery, Expert Witnesses, Health Care, Product Liability, and more. The collection is keyword search-able and all articles are available full-text in PDF format. Search results includes …
AALL has conducted a State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources. The report presents the results of a survey of primary online legal resources and whether these resources are official and capable of being authenticated. In short, “How trustworthy are state-level primary legal resources on the Web?” The answer (from the executive summary): A …
Meg Kribble, a new law librarian at Nova Southeastern University Law Library in south Florida, has recently started blogging at All-Purpose BiblioBlawg. In addition to law, librarianship, and legal research, Meg also blogs about such things as Second Life, Macs, cool YouTube content, and sci fi TV shows. Yay – someone else to talk Star …
Check out Yahoo News for more on Justice Breyer’s entertaining interview on National Public Radio’s “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me.” Being the funniest Supreme Court justice, he said, “is like being one of the shortest tall people.” Better yet, listen to the Show. Source: Findlaw’s Practice Paper
Justia just keeps getting better and better. The latest addition, Regulation Tracker allows you to search, browse, and track Federal Register documents. Not only is there a RSS feed for every agency, but you can customize them by type of document or keyword. I just had someone ask me whether a product like this existed …
beSpacific has a great tip for saving money on Amazon: RSStalker.com provides RSS feeds to track price changes of Amazon.com products. Generate a feed for a single product or for an entire wishlist. Add it to your favorite aggregator and you will be automatically notified when the price changes. Simply unsubscribe to the feed when …