Yesterday Bill Gratsch, founder of Blawg.com, posted some highlights of an interview with me. Bonnie Shucha, the Head of Reference at the UW Law Library, recently answered a few of my questions about what law …
Libraries & Librarians
New SSRN E-Journal, Legal Information & Technology, Encourages Law Librarian Scholarship
SSRN has recently unveiled a new e-journal titled Legal Information & Technology. It includes working papers, forthcoming articles, and recently published articles in all areas of legal information and law librarianship. Interested readers can subscribe …
Library Elf, Library Account Notification Service, to Charge for Premium Service
I’m a heavy user of our local public library. I love that I can go online, put things on hold, and then pick them up at my leisure. Keeping track of when things come in …
Rex Libris Coming to the Big Screen?
Variety reports that Warner Bros. Pictures has hired Mark Burton to pen the bigscreen adaptation of James Turner’s comicbook “Rex Libris,” about an everyday guy who becomes part of a secret sect of librarians who …
Download Audio Books from Your Public Library – Now to Your iPod
Courtesy of the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium, library patrons can download digital audio books to their mp3 players or burn the files to an audio CD. And just recently announced, the books are now available …
WI State Law Library After Hours Service
From the November WSLL @ Your Service newsletter: 2009 After Hours Subscriptions – Now’s the Time! Wisconsin Attorneys: Would you like the convenience of using the State Law Library later in the evening or on …
Links to Online Books Added to MadCat Library Catalog
Earlier this week the UW Madison campus libraries added links from the MadCat library catalog to online versions of volumes in Google Books Search or the CIC shared digital repository,HathiTrust. If an item we have …
Sign up to Receive Notice Before Library Books are Due
Starting November 3, 2008, Madison area public library users will be able to receive an e-mail notice two days before checked out items are due. This service will be available on an “opt-in” basis, so …
Libraries Get Busier As Budgets Get Tighter
“Tough economic times means more people are checking out their local libraries, hoping to cut down on the amount they spend on books, magazines and movies,” reports Channel3000. From the article: In Madison, libraries are …
Why Learning Emerging Technologies is Every Librarians' Business
Kathryn Greenhill of Librarians Matter has put together an excellent presentation on finding the time and reasons to learn about emerging technologies. The presenation title comes from the two phrases I hear most when people …