Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Law librarians are a pretty tech savvy bunch. As evidence, take a look at some of the exciting tools my colleagues have created relating to the 2009 American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting. This year, the meeting will be held in Washington DC on July 25th – 28th. Official AALL 2009 Blog (not too …
From the American Association of Law Libraries E-Newsletter: I’m pleased to announce that AALL is now providing members free access to the full set of online lessons hosted by the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI). Written by expert law professors and law librarians, CALI lessons have long been a valuable supplementary learning aid for …
The American Association of Law Libraries has set up two Twitter feeds: One for general information and a second for updates on the 2009 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Recent Tweets: Wifi will be available in the meeting rooms, the general concourse, and the registration area in the convention center. $50 AALL Member Appreciation Discount …
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 librarians in particular can do to run their libraries in the 21st century and what it is like to host …
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 to receive the ejournal. According to an article in the Academic Law Library Special Interest Section newsletter, co-editors Randy Diamond …
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 and when they are due back again can be a hassle, however. Enter Library Elf, a handy little service which …
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 battle forces of darkness in chasing down overdue or stolen books. Source: PLI Library Relations
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 for iPods and iPhones. Previously, the system only worked with Microsoft-based mp3 players. This example shows the variety of formats …
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 weekends? Now’s the time to subscribe to our After Hours Service. A calendar-year subscription includes access to the library from …
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 in MadCat has been digitized by Google and is present in the Google Books or HathiTrust database, the MadCat record …