Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Here’s one from Law Librarian Blog: Check out twitter.com/HouseFloor which distributes live updates from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, updated every five minutes with any new information from The Office of the Clerk of the House. [What’s Twitter?]
The New York Times reports on the project of “Internet gadfly” Carl Malamud, founder of Public.Resource.Org, to make more than 10 million pages of case law available free online. According to the ReadMe file on Public.Resource.Org, The short-term goal of the project is the creation of an unencumbered full-text repository of the Federal Reporter, the …
If you missed The Hollywood Librarian at ALA, there’s good news. It is being screened in libraries this fall during Banned Books Week. A map of screening locations is available. Looks like it is showing in a handful of libraries throughout Wisconsin (times updated 9/27/07): UW–Madison SLIS – Sep 30 at 4 pm, Oct 4 …
The Shifted Librarian reports that EBSCO has finally embraced RSS. To test it out, do a search in an EBSCO database, such as Academic Search Elite which is freely available to all Wisconsinites via Badgerlink. On your search results page, notice the orange RSS button which appears at the top. Click on this will give …
Kudos to Mary Whisner and crew for the new blog, Legal Conference Watch. The reference department of the Gallagher Law Library of the University of Washington School of Law developed this blog in response to a faculty request for help learning about upcoming conferences. Attending and, if possible, presenting papers at conferences is a great …
The Wisconsin History Society has a lot of interesting RSS feeds, including one highlighting old photographs from it’s archives. This photo came around last week. A group of young men is sitting in a darkened, smoky-looking theater. On the screen is a quote from Jay Gould: “I can hire one-half of the working class to …
Two recent surveys on librarian job satisfaction offer conflicting views. According to Law.com, LawFirmInc.’s sixth annual survey of law firm librarians at Am Law 200 firms reveals that they are continuing to move beyond “traditional” library work, like legal research, and into marketing and competitive intelligence, computer training and even knowledge management projects… Yet the …
LOUIS is a new mega search engine of U.S. executive and legislative documents. A project of the Sunlight Foundation, LOUIS offers a combined search of Congressional Reports, Congressional Record, Congressional Hearings, Federal Register, Presidential Documents, Federal Register, GAO Reports, and Congressional Bills & Resolutions. The files themselves come from GPO Access. Besides the ability to …
I noticed a while back that Shepard’s coverage was expanded in the new beta version of LexisNexis Academic. In the current version, only U.S. Supreme Court cases can be Shepardized. There was some discussion today on the AALL Academic Law Libraries SIS about coverage. Apparently it includes all case law, but no statutory coverage.
OK – this has nothing to do with libraries, or law, or technology, but it was too bizarre not to share. From Reuters Oddly Enough (photo from the Herald Sun): A giant, smiling Lego man was fished out of the sea in the Dutch resort of Zandvoort on Tuesday. Workers at a drinks stall rescued …