Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
As of the new year, the Wisconsin State Law Library changed their document delivery fees. From WSLL @ Your Service: For well over 10 years our minimum charge for delivery by fax, mail or email had been $3.00 for anything up to 4 pages. The new minimum charge of $15.00 covers delivery (by email, fax …
The other day on my drive in to work I listened to a really touching StoryCorps interview on NPR. Judge Olly Neal shared the story of how a stolen book and a school librarian changed his life. Olly Neal grew up in Arkansas during the 1950s. He didn’t care much for high school. One day …
“The AALL 2009 Annual Meeting Theme is ‘Innovate.’ In that spirit, there will be an “unconference” for the first time ever this year prior to the Annual Meeting. Attendees will have the chance to explore ideas and discuss issues with fellow law librarians in an informal setting. We’re calling it ‘Lawberry Camp.’ ” [from website] …
From Now @ MPL: Milwaukee Public Library is an official Patent and Trademark Depository Library. A Patent and Trademark Depository Library (PTDL) is a library designated by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to receive and house copies of U.S. patents and patent and trademark materials, to make them freely available to the public, …
A group of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater library science professors has been awarded a federal grant totaling almost $1 million to help school librarians become licensed and conversant with changing technology. Read more in the press release. Source: The Wheeler Report
LibGuides is a “web 2.0 library knowledge sharing system” offered by the company Springshare. LibGuides is growing in popularity among all kinds of libraries, including law libraries as a platform for creating web-based research guides. Elizabeth Farrell of Florida State University College of Law has recently added a list of law libraries currently using LibGuides …
Last year the AALL Computing Services Special Interest Section sponsored the first Web 2.0 Challenge, an online course to introduce law librarians to social software and how to use it in their libraries. The course was so popular that CS-SIS is sponsoring it again in 2009. The Web 2.0 Challenge will provide a free, comprehensive, …
For several years now, I’ve maintained a list of Law Library Blogs on the UW Law Library web server. I’m pleased to share that this list of blogs written by law librarians or law library associations is now available on the new AALL Computing Services Special Interest Section wiki. In the course of the migration, …
How is the current economic crisis affecting the law library profession? An e-newsletter from AALL President, James Duggan, shares the results from a recent survey of law library directors: Staff 23 percent of law libraries have experienced staff reductions, the overwhelming number ranging from one to five full-time employees laid off. Nearly 20 percent of …
Happy National Library Week! Stop by the UW Law Library this week and help us celebrate. For our celebration this year, we’ve put together a number of activities including games, displays, and faculty/staff READ posters. READ Posters This year’s posters feature, Louis Butler, Justice in Residence, and the Law School IT Team, Eric Giefer, Darryl …