Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
A collaboration between the University of Wisconsin Digital Collection Center and the Madison Public Library has produced a digital collection of Historical County Plat Maps from South Central Wisconsin and Early Madison City Directories. The collection spans the latter half of the 19th century. In addition to their usefulness for historians and genealogists, these plat …
From inter alia: Remote Printing Made Easy PrinterAnywhere is an interesting application — it allows you to safely print documents on any printer, anywhere in the world — or to have documents printed on your computer from anywhere in the world. It’s a free download, but both you and the owner of the other printer …
The New York Times has an interesting piece on the increase in spam in the last six months. According to the NYT: – Spammers are “conscripting vast networks of computers belonging to users who unknowingly downloaded viruses and other rogue programs. The infected computers begin sending out spam without the knowledge of their owners.” – …
The ABA reports that the newly released Adobe Acrobat 8.0 contains several new features of particular interest to attorneys. These include redaction, show metadata, Bates numbering, improved forms functions, collaboration tools, and more. For more, the review in Law.com and the white paper entitled “Adobe Acrobat 8.0 for Legal Professionals” by David Masters.
A colleague passed along this little YouTube gem entitled, “Your Life Work: The Librarian,” a vocational guidance film from 1956. Prerequisites for a career in librarianship: love for books and love for people. It’s not bad, actually. Not a shusher in the bunch.
Noah Wyle returns this Sunday night as The Librarian in the the TNT movie, Return to King Solomon’s Mines. I’ve got my TiVo all set. From the TNT site: This globe-trotting action-thriller from the producer of Independence Day and the director of Star Trek: First Contact sends Flynn on a journey to uncover the fabled …
Several months ago, the AALL Publishing Initiatives Caucus (which I co-chair) created a database of articles written by law librarians for legal publications. Writing articles is one many ways that law librarians can demonstrate their value to the legal community. An alert feature has recently been added to the database – both RSS and email …
Looks like the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is now charging non subscribers for articles older than fourteen days. Access to the archives is free for 7 Day subscribers. See the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Archive Search page for more information, including pricing. (Thanks to Bev Butula & Diane Duffey for the tip) Wisconsinites can still access Journal …
From Library Stuff – Throw-away e-mail address generators: Spamhole – “SpamhOle.com allows you to create a temporary email address; nameyoupick@spamhole.com. For the number of hours that you choose, all email to nameyoupick@spamhole.com address is automatically forwarded to your regular email address. After time is up, any new mail that comes to your spamhole address is …
There are two new Wisconsin Briefs available from the Legislative Reference Bureau. Brief 06-16, Wisconsin State Officers (November 2006) Brief 06-15, Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (October 2006)