It’s National Library Week! Check out this year’s celebrations at the University of Wisconsin Law Library. Monday – Law Student Book Giveaway Watch out – free books for law students! They go pretty quickly but …
Libraries & Librarians
Study Examines How Academic Law Libraries Use Blogs to Engage with Users
A new study in the latest edition of The Reference Librarian explores the use of blogs by academic law librarians. In “An Exploratory Examination and Critique of Academic Law Librarian Blogs: A Look into an …
The University of Wisconsin Law School announces the Bhopal Digital Repository
Last week, the UW Law School hosted a symposium on the Bhopal Disaster, which killed thousands of people in the Bhopal region of India, left a long legal trail, and is still controversial to this …
WI State Law Library Named in Honor of Justice Prosser
In a ceremony on October 19, the Wisconsin State Law Library was officially named the David T. Prosser, Jr. State Law Library. From the State Law Library blog: The event, attended by a number of …
UW Law Library Celebrates 35th Anniversary as US Government Documents Depository
This month, the UW Law Library celebrates its 35th anniversary as a Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) Selective Depository. As a Selective Depository, the Law Library receives certain classes of federal government documents free of …
UW Law Library featured in ELLE Decor as one of The 50 Best Libraries In The United States
ELLE Decor has featured the University of Wisconsin Law School Library as one of The 50 Best Libraries In The United States. A lovely photo of our Habush, Habush, and Rottier Reading Room is included …
UW Law Library Research Guides
Did you know that the UW Law Library offers research guides on numerous legal topics? Here’s a quick infographic that I created with Easel.ly with a few highlights.
Legal Information & Technology SSRN eJournal Offers Law Library Scholarship
Happy Birthday to the Legal Information & Technology eJournal which just concluded its fifth year. This SSRN eJournal, curated by Randy Diamond and Lee Peoples, provides a platform for the dissemination of law library scholarship. Beginning …
"Happy Birthday" Copyright Smoking Gun Unearthed by Law Librarians
Warner/Chappell Music, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, has long claimed to own the rights to “Happy Birthday to You,” probably the most recognized English language song in the world. However, new evidence unearthed by …
A Zotero Update and work-around for the UW Catalog
2015 has been a whirlwind year of change for UW Libraries, even though most of it is not obvious to users. The campus (and entire UW system!) recently switched our library catalog platform and modified …