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Thanks to WI Ct of Appeals Judge Daniel Anderson for alerting me to March of the Librarians on YouTube. A parody of March of the Penguins, this mockumentary follows librarians at the ALA Midwinter conference. I especially liked the part about the male librarians with their “fabulous facial plumage,” the “tote-rollers,” and the occasional “hipster …

The ALA Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has named Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2006. Highlights include: AF: Acronym Finder Constitution Finder E-how How Products are Made In the first person: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives And there are lots of other really interesting sites. Definitely worth …

This semester, I’m taking a course on management. One of our first projects was to think of a great manager we’ve worked with and describe what made that person so special. While a number of people in the class sadly had a hard time thinking of anyone, one person did come to my mind. As …

A little bit of Wisconsin history has made its way on to the Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry. As one of only 200 recordings to make the list, the old foghorn of Kewaunee, Wis. joins some elite company including JFK’s “ask not what your country can do for you” speech and Martin Luther King …

My fellow UW Law Librarian, Jenny Zook has written a useful piece on protecting yourself from identity theft for our Law School newsletter.

I’m pleased to announce that WisBlawg has moved to a new home. Please direct your browser to http://www.law.wisc.edu/blogs/wisblawg/ We hope to move the archives over to the new platform in the near future. Additionally, we hope to create a redirect so that you will automatically be directed to the new site when you click on …

Learn what your colleagues think about blogging in the ABA Litigation Section blogs poll: Blogs are certainly pervasive on the internet, and a slight majority of you (57%) read some sort of blog on a regular basis. However, creating and maintaining a blog is a different story: only 19% of respondents write their own law-related …

TechnoLaywer Blog has a nice little summary of LexisNexis’ new browser toolbar. I noticed an ad for this the other day, but I haven’t tried this myself since I’ve already got more toolbars than I can use. If you’ve used it, I’d be interested in hearing some feedback. Just comment on this post to share …

And now the “news” from the UW Law Library… There was a joyful reunion here today as 4 books that walked away from the New Book Shelf at the University of Wisconsin Law Library over 3 years ago returned home. Cataloging assistant Carrie Doyle had been searching for 3 of the books since November, 2001, …

IPac, the Intellectual Property Action Committee, has launched an interesting campaign called the Congressional iPod Education fund. It seems they were inspired by “Senator Stevens, the 82-year old [U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation] chairman from Alaska, [who announced] that his daughter had bought him an iPod, and suddenly Stevens had a much …