Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports on the use of RFID in Milwaukee area libraries. West Allis is among a handful of local libraries in Milwaukee County — including Greenfield, Wauwatosa and Franklin — that are moving from a bar code system of tracking materials to radio frequency identification, or RFID. Using scanners to detect tiny …
Are you interested in learning about applications like blogs, wikis, and Second Life, but don’t have a lot of time? Take the AALL Computing Service Special Interest Section’s Web 2.0 Challenge! The Web 2.0 Challenge — a free, comprehensive, and interactive online course — will use hands-on exercises to introduce many kinds of social technologies …
In a new career alternatives feature, Above the Law examines law librarianship. A bit snarky, but pretty much on the money. Worth a look if you’re thinking about a career change. Selections from the AALL Salary Survey are reprinted to answer “the $64,000 question: what’s the pay like?”
77 Square, off shoot of The Capital Times, has a great article on how the public libraries in Madison have embraced technology to attract users and stay relevant in the digital age. Libraries were once feared to be headed for obsolescence as the digital age made massive amounts of information accessible from a home computer. …
Abbie Mulvihill (AbsTracked) has set up a Law Librarians group at LinkedIn. If you are a law librarian with a LinkedIn profile, all you have to do is click on this link to join. You’ll also get this nifty logo on your profile. It’s just another chance to network with your peers. LinkedIn is a …
I was reminded again yesterday of how much I love Library Elf, a handy little service which tracks your account at the public library. Just enter your library card number and pin number, and Elf will send you an alert via email or RSS* before your books are due. And if you place holds on …
Jennifer L. Behrens of Duke Law Library has compiled a list of law library pages on Facebook. See UW Law Library’s Facebook page which appears on the list. For more about how law libraries are connecting with students in Facebook, see Jennifer’s recent article in AALL Spectrum. Her list appears on the Law Libraries and …
According to JS Online, Milwaukee Public Library is investigating the idea of creating three express libraries where patrons could access library materials and services at convenient places, such as supermarkets, coffee shops, or the airport. At each express library, patrons could check out or return books or other items they had ordered over the Internet; …
I’m honored to report that I’ve been elected Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of the Computing Services Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Librarians. As our name implies, we’re the techie group in AALL. Officially, “the purposes of CS SIS are to promote the communication of ideas, interests and activities concerning technological advances in law librarianship …
I’m pleased to share that my colleague, Sunil Rao, has written a review of the Professional Convict’s Tale: The Survival of John O’Neill In and Out of Prison which appears in the latest International Journal of Legal Information (v. 35, no. 3, winter 2007, pp. 576-579.) Sunil is UW Law Library’s Foreign Law Librarian. Both …