The American Association of Law Libraries announces the first annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Contest. Currently enrolled students attending graduate programs in library science, law, history, or related subjects are eligible to enter the …
Are Major Changes in Store for the LSAT?
From Law.com: UC-Berkeley School of Law researchers say they have identified tests that could be used along with it to better predict success in the practice of law. And the law school’s dean is trying …
CiteGenie Now Captures Citations from Westlaw AND LexisNexis
Thanks to Scott Frey who alerted me to some changes with CiteGenie. If you didn’t catch my earlier post about it, CiteGenie is a new extension for the Firefox web browser that, as its website …
WisBlawg Featured at Blawg.com
I’m honored to report that WisBlawg is one of the featured blogs over at Blawg.com. If you’re not familiar with it, Blawg is a portal of legal blogs. It features a search engine for legal …
GMU Drops EndNote; Goes Ahead with Zotero Sync Preview
From Zotero: George Mason University has released an official statement about the Thomson Reuters lawsuit. The press release is copied below. The Thomson Reuters Corporation has sued the Commonwealth of Virginia over Zotero, a project …
62% of Cambridge Law Students Admit to Plagiarism
The Chronicle of Higher Education blog reports that “Half the students at the University of Cambridge have plagiarized, according to results of a survey by Varsity, a student newspaper at the university…. Law students, the …
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 …
WI Appellate Courts Briefs to be Filed and Made Available Electronically
From the Wisconsin Law Journal: The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Oct. 28 took another step in broadening an electronic filing system for attorneys, but the court also made it known it is not willing to …
Haunted Campus: UW Madison Ghost Stories
The Badger Herald has gathered an spooky list of hauntings on campus. Wisconsin Union Theater, Science Hall and Memorial Library are among the supposedly haunted. Memorial Library is also mentioned by Britannica Blog in their …
Christian Science Monitor Weekly to Go Online Only
“After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science Monitor will abandon its weekday print edition and appear online only,” reports the New York Times. “The paper is currently published Monday through Friday, and will …