Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Libraries Unlimited is providing free access to ARBAonline during National Library Week April 15-22, 2007. Derived from the trusted reference standard American Reference Books Annual, ARBAonline features about 17,000+ reviews of reference works published since 1997. Written by librarians for librarians, ARBAonline’s reviews cover reference sources from more than 400 publishers in over 500 subject …
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 …
Kiplinger has named “librarian” as one of the 7 Great Careers for 2007. Forget about the image of librarian as mousy bookworm. Today’s librarian is a high-tech information sleuth, a master of mining cool databases (well beyond Google) to unearth the desired nuggets. Plus you’ll probably have regular hours and good job security. Source: The …
Get geared up for next week’s Wisconsin Film Festival by watching your favorites from years’ past. Check out the Madison Public Library’s collection of film fest titles. Thanks to What’s New from the Madison Public Library for the tip. Did you know that if you have a South Central Library System card you can go …
The Chronicle of Higher Ed reports that the New York Times has altered its offer to make Times Select, which includes columnists and archives going back to the 1800s, available to college students for free. After librarians complained that they already pay tens of thousands of dollars for access to premium New York Times content …
Tis’ the season for lectures, it seems. On Thursday, April 5th the Wright Lecture Series presents “The Shared Ideal: The Carnegie Library Designs of Claude & Starck.” The lecture will be held at 7pm in the Monona Terrace Lecture Hall and is free and open to the public. From the Madison Public Library What’s New …
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 …
Just in time for National Library Week, Archie McPhee has a wicked selection of temporary tattoos for librarians. For a better view, check out Stupid.com. Source: Out of the Jungle
So I send my husband the Law Librarian Hotties contest post because I think it’s fun, and he goes and nominates me. And, I’m floored to find that he wasn’t the only one. I don’t know whether to be flattered or embarrassed – both, I guess. Good thing I have a sense of humor because …
Here’s another good article from the latest edition of Law Library Journal (Winter 2007). In Go and Tell the World: Charles R. McCarthy and the Evolution of the Legislative Reference Movement, 1901-1917, Paul D. Healey writes of Wisconsin’s other McCarthy. Abstract: Professor Healey describes the work of Charles R. McCarthy who, in the early twentieth …