Research Strategies

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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, …

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 …