From Law Librarian Blog: A group of students in Stanford Law’s advanced legal research class created a short (3 minute) silent film, Legal Research: The Movie. Fantastic! I guess the movie isn’t a “talkie” because …
Research Strategies
Librarian's Ultimate Guide to Search Engines Has Tips for Everyone
Scott Hawksworth over at DegreeTutor has created a very useful guide for online research called the Librarian’s Ultimate Guide to Search Engines. It covers “things librarians understand about search – and things that anyone doing …
Guide to Assessing Information on the Internet
Mary J. Koshollek, director of information and records services at Godfrey & Kahn S.C. in Milwaukee has written an excellent article on evaluating websites in the November issue of the Wisconsin Lawyer. In Assessing Information …
Law for the Layperson: An Annotated Bibliography of Self-help Law Books
Southern Illinois University Law Librarians Diane Murley and Amber Hewette have written a new book entitled, Law for the Layperson: An Annotated Bibliography of Self-help Law Books. It is available from Hein and Amazon. Nearly …
WisStat Offers Custom Demographic & Economic Data
Looking for a map of median house values for Dane County? a family demographic profile for DeForest? or a table of major crops harvested in Wisconsin? These and many more customizable tables, profiles and maps …
Good, Fast, or Cheap: Best Two out of Three
The following is based on an article about evaluating information that I wrote for our Law School Newsletter a few years back: First the good news: Legal information may have three desirable characteristics – good, …
Good, Fast, or Cheap: Best Two out of Three
The following is based on an article about evaluating information that I wrote for our Law School Newsletter a few years back: First the good news: Legal information may have three desirable characteristics – good, …
Brush Up Your Searching Skills
Do your searches often yield too many or too few search results? Or would you just like to brush up on your search strategies? If so, help has arrived. The UW-Madison campus librarians have created …