A whole lot more delinquent taxpayers are about to get added to the Department of Revenue’s Website of Shame. According to the Wisconsin Radio Network, a provision in the new state budget lowers the threshold …
Some Bloggers = Journalists According to SC Federal Judge
A South Carolina District Court judge has ruled that bloggers may have the same rights as journalists, depending on the content of the blog. The complete case, BidZirk LLC v Phillip J Smith, is available …
Library Services for Alumni Featured in Latest Issue of The Gargoyle
The latest edition of The Gargoyle, the UW Madison Law School alumni magazine, is now available online. On a research note, I’d like to draw your attention to an article I contributed about the various …
Interesting Findings from the AALL Salary Survey
The 2007 American Association of Law Libraries 2007 Salary Survey is now available online to AALL members. In addition to statistical tables summarizing salary data by position for each type of library (academic, private firm/corporate, …
Great Library Pumpkins
Thanks to Library Stuff for inspiring me in my search of the great library pumpkins. The first is courtesy of Terry’s Worklog. “For those of you that don’t speak MARC, the pumpkin is a jack-o-lantern …
Westlaw WebPlus: a New, Free Legal Search Engine.
West has unveiled a new Web search engine called Westlaw WebPlus. This legally-focused search engine filters search results based on legal relevance. WebPlus is available from within Westlaw, although it may just be for law …
WI Bill Allowing Police to Access Library Surveillance Tapes Passes
Senate Bill 214, which allows law enforcement officials to have access to library surveillance video tapes without having to first obtain a court order, passed both houses of the Legislature yesterday with no opposition. The …
New Look for Amazon
Looks like Amazon is testing out a new site design. A few facts from the about page: What’s different? We concentrated on shopping, searching, saving, and buying–the four activities that customers have repeatedly told us …
West Headnote of the Day – Amusing, Profound or Otherwise Interesting
West has launched a fun new resource called Headnote of the Day in which “amusing, profound or otherwise interesting” headnotes are delivered to you by email (what, no RSS?). Headnote of the Day is a …
Gingerbread Haunted Mansion
This item came up today in one of the blogs that I read and thought it was too cool not to share – a gingerbread haunted mansion. Librarians will appreciate the “Return Your Books or …