Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Stop by the Law Library this week and help us celebrate National Library Week! For our celebration this year, we have put together a number of activities including a book drive, Bluebooking workshop, and, of course, our faculty READ poster. READ Poster View this year’s poster featuring Meg Gaines – On display inside the library …
Congratulations to CJ Ullrich, our Law Library Stack Manager, who has just had a short story published. The story is entitled “The Collector” and was co-authored by Paul McComas. The publisher is http://walkaboutpublishing.blogspot.com/ CJ’s work has earned high praised from acclaimed co-author McComas who writes: C.J. has studied fiction writing with me for four weeks …
The Milwaukee Public Library has recently introduced a new Instant Messaging (IM) service. Hours for the IM service are Monday-Tuesday: 10 a.m. -8 p.m. and Wednesday-Saturday: 9 a.m.- 5:30 p.m. And don’t forgot that our reference librarians here at the UW Law Library also have an IM service. Just click on the Chat Now button …
From the Gov Docs list: The Library of Congress added its fourth blog today entitled In Custodia Legis: Law Librarians of Congress (http://blogs.loc.gov/law/). In Custodia Legis is Latin for in the custody of the law. One role of the Law Library of Congress is to be a custodian of law and legislation. As part of …
On Friday, October 8th, 2010, the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin will host a day-long educational institute at the newly remodeled Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The theme for the conference is The Strength of Change and LLAW is very pleased to have Professor Robert C. Berring, Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law, …
Dodge County Circuit Court Judge Steven Bauer contacted me this morning to let me know he’d linked to WisBlawg on his blog, To Speak the Truth. It’s quite a nice post about his positive experiences with libraries and librarians as the following excerpt illustrates: I love libraries and librarians. I was going to write “good …
On June 10, 11:30 a.m. EDT, American Association of Law Libraries is sponsoring a webinar with Stephen Abram entitled Interpreting the Tea Leaves: Thinking about the Future. LLAW’s own Laura La Rose of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren S.C. in Milwaukee is also one of the speakers. Here’s more about the webinar from AALL: The world …
Stop by the UW Law Library this week and help us celebrate National Library Week! For our celebration this year, we have put together a number of activities including drawings and giveaways, and, of course, our faculty READ poster. This year’s poster features Carin Clauss and will be on display later this week in the …
On Friday, October 8th, 2010 the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin will host an all-day educational institute for librarians at the new Marquette University Law School building, Eckstein Hall, in Milwaukee, WI. The theme for the conference is The Strength of Change. Registration will cost $100, and includes continental breakfast and lunch. The dual-track event …
Last evening I had the treat of hearing Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley speak at a meeting of the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin. Her topic was Wisconsin women’s legal history. Not only was the subject on of particular interest to me but Justice Walsh Bradley is a wonderful story teller and really …