The Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin has embarked on a new marketing initiative this year – a LLAW calendar. The calendar features pictures taken by LLAW members, as well as, interesting dates in legal, library …
SAGE Offers Free Online Access to Journals in October
SAGE is offering free online access to over 500 of its journals until October 31, 2008. Content is available from 1999 to the present. Registration is required. Source: LISNews
Free PACER Pilot Program Suspended Pending Evaluation
Barco Law Library reports that the 2-year free PACER pilot program has been suspended pending evaluation. [What is PACER?] A notice went out that “GPO and the Administrative Office of the United States Courts undertook …
U.S. Courts RSS Feeds
AbsTracked reports that U.S. Courts website is offering RSS feeds: Newsroom Video News Archive The Third Branch: Newsletter of the Federal Courts Federal Rulemaking Hurricane Season 2008: Court Status Updates
Odd Wisconsin Exhibit Opens at WI Historical Museum Next Week
First it was a website, then a book, and now it’s a full-blown exhibit. “Odd Wisconsin” opens at the Wisconsin Historical Museum on October 3rd. From the website: WARNING! Objects Are More Intriguing Than They …
Nominated as WLJ Unsung Hero
I’m very honored to share that I’ve been nominated for a Wisconsin Law Journal’s 2008 Unsung Heroes award. The program recognizes outstanding work by “behind the scenes” personnel in the Wisconsin legal community. The other …
Thomson Reuters Claims GMU Reverse Engineered Endnote to Create Zotero
From Slashdot: Thomson Reuters, the owner of the Endnote reference management software, has filed a $10 million lawsuit and a request for injunction against the Commonwealth of Virginia. Virginia’s George Mason University develops Zotero, a …
Thomson Reuters Claims GMU Reverse Engineered Endnote to Create Zotero
From Slashdot: Thomson Reuters, the owner of the Endnote reference management software, has filed a $10 million lawsuit and a request for injunction against the Commonwealth of Virginia. Virginia’s George Mason University develops Zotero, a …
haika Semantic Search Engine Looking for a Few Good Law Sites
The following post was written by my law librarian colleague, Bev Butula: A couple of weeks ago, I discussed the hakia search engine on my blog for the Wisconsin Law Journal. If you are not …
Article about Carl Malamud's Crusade for Open Law
Thanks to Greg Lambert for passing on this CNet article about open-law activist, Carl Malamud. He’s devoted his life to liberating laws, regulations, court cases, and the other myriad detritus that governments produce daily, but …