Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Georgia Institute of Technology’s Brian Matthews has published a thought provoking study on librarians monitoring student blogs for potential reference interactions. [L]ibraries are missing out on the potential of using blogs for providing valuable educational opportunities. Instead of forcing patrons to interact with us, we can enter their domain and seek new ways of providing …
Yesterday’s National Library Week Trivia Answer Question: In 1990, the opinion written by Judge Alex Kozinski in United States v. Syufy Enterprises (903 F.2d 659) grabbed headlines for its style as well as its legal substance. Why? Answer: Some suspected that the Ninth Circuit judge worked more than 200 movie titles into the text of …
JS Online reports on this year’s Who Reads What?, a list of celebrities’ favorite books compiled by Maine librarian, Glenna Nowell. Their responses ranged from the nice – Rosalynn Carter’s favorite is the Bible – to the naughty: dirty joke books favored by writer Piers Anthony. . . Many of the titles deal with more …
Yesterday, it was the students’ turn to Stump the Library Staff (which we are still researching). For today’s National Library Week contest, we are back to asking the questions. In 1990, the opinion written by Judge Alex Kozinski in United States v. Syufy Enterprises (903 F.2d 659) grabbed headlines for its style as well as …
Monday’s Guess the Grad Contest is history and we had quite a few folks participate. And a fair number who pointed out that question #1 didn’t quite hit the mark. Here are the answers as written by reference librarian, Jenny Zook: 1. Who is the UW graduate who sang, “I might get rich, you know …
In what we hope is the first of an annual tradition, we’ve added a new component to our National Library Week celebration: READ posters featuring UW Law School faculty members. Join us in the Law Library to view the posters featuring Asifa Quraishi, Gordon Smith, and Cheryl Weston. The posters turned out so well, in …
In celebration of National Library Week, the following events will be taking place at the UW Law Library: Contests: Each day there will be a law or library-related contest open to Law School students, faculty, and staff. Daily winners will each receive a prize and at the end of the week, students with the most …
In response to my post lamenting that more legal researchers don’t seek out the help of a law librarian, Jeremy Richey asks a good question on the Advanced Electronic Legal Research Blog: What sort of questions would be appropriate to ask? For example, would it be appropriate to call them in an attempt to find …
The Canadian Association of Law Libraries has launched its first conference blog. Look for posts by SLAW’s Michael Lines, Vancouver Law Librarian Blog’s Steve Matthews, and Connie Crosby. The CALL conference will be held May 7-10, 2006 in Edmonton, Alberta. Although I won’t be attending the conference, reading the blog is the next best thing. …
Yesterday, I had a visit from fellow blogger, Compujurist.com’s Nerino Petro. Nerino is now the Practice Management Advisor for the Law Office Management Assistance program of the State Bar of Wisconsin. You might recognize him from the cover of the Feb. 2006 Wisconsin Lawyer. We talked about ways that law librarians can add value to …