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Legislation & Regs
RSS Tracking for Canadian Bills
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 …
How Trustworthy are State-level Primary Legal Resources on the Web? Not Very, Says AALL Report
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 …
Track Federal Regulations with Justia
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 …
Older WI Legislative Council Documents Now Available on UW Law Library Web Site
A few weeks ago, I reported that the UW Law Library will be hosting on our web site Wisconsin Legislative Council documents back to 1996. According to our Head of Cataloging, Cindy May, these documents …
UW Law Library to Host Older WI Legislative Council Publications
In response to the Wisconsin Legislative Council’s decision to remove publications more than five years old from their Web site, the UW Law Library contacted the WLC and offered to host the documents on our …
LRB's Governing Wisconsin Series Explains State Government
The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau publishes Governing Wisconsin, a series of brief discussions of how government works in Wisconsin. The guides explain such things as legislative rules, the Wisconsin Idea, forms of local government, open …
Wisconsin Legislative Council Redesigns Website, Removes Older Documents
The library recently received a letter from the Wisconsin Legislative Council regarding their newly redesigned web site. It states: Due to fiscal and resource constraints, it is not feasible for this office to keep more …
Online WI Statutes Will No Longer be Labeled "Unofficial"
I’ve just received word that as of the next update in March, the RSB is removing “that troubling ‘u’ word” from the online Wisconsin Statutes. Instead of noting that the text is unofficial, the PDF …
Online WI Statutes Will No Longer be Labeled "Unofficial"
I’ve just received word that as of the next update in March, the RSB is removing “that troubling ‘u’ word” from the online Wisconsin Statutes. Instead of noting that the text is unofficial, the PDF …