Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
From Law Librarian Blog: A group of students in Stanford Law’s advanced legal research class created a short (3 minute) silent film, Legal Research: The Movie. Fantastic! I guess the movie isn’t a “talkie” because some scenes were filmed in the law library.
The ALA Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has named Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2006. Highlights include: AF: Acronym Finder Constitution Finder E-how How Products are Made In the first person: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives And there are lots of other really interesting sites. Definitely worth …
Yesterday, I received this notice from the Wisconsin Legislative Notification Service: The Wisconsin Legislative Notification Service will be temporarily unavailable until January 4th, 2007. During this time the 2005-2006 legislative session data will be removed from the system. This includes proposals, committees, author information, etc, as well as your subscriptions for notifications to these items. …
I’m please to report that my article, Too Much Information: Filtering RSS Feeds, appears in the Winter 2006 issue of Connecting…, the newsletter of the AALL Computing Services Special Interest Section. In the article, I offer instructions for: Filtering blog content using Google Blog Search and Feedster Filtering other RSS feeds with Feed Rinse Combining …
From Inter Alia: Free Software…..Every Day I’ve been a big fan of Giveaway of the Day for about a month now. It’s a site that offers fully licensed software to you every day — a different title — for free. Software developers are giving away free copies of their software for one day only — …
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections has recently digitized additional volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States. It now covers 311 volumes from 1861 to 1958/1960. The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for …
From the Capital Times: Starting January 1st, Wisconsin authorities will start enforcing a law that requires children who are at least 4 years old but younger than 8 to travel in a booster seat while in the car, unless they are 4 feet 9 inches or taller or weigh 80 pounds or more. Wisconsin law …
Tis the time of year for blog awards. Here are two which honor legal blogs: Dennis Kennedy’s 2006 Blawggies Blawg Review’s Awards 2006
I’m very honored to learn that WisBlawg has recently been named as a Top 100 Education Blog by the OEDb: Online Education Database. Not bad considering there are over 30,000 education blogs. The list is not ranked but rather is ordered alphabetically within each topic. WisBlawg is one of four specialty blogs.
Looks like the Library of Congress is offering a handful of RSS feeds. There are general feeds about library news and events, as well as feeds from the U.S. Copyright Office. The latter features feeds for current legislation, federal register notices and more. Source: Library Stuff