Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The results of the 2007 CALI Legal Education Podcast survey are now available. (Well, ok – they’ve been available for a while now and I’m just getting around to posting about them.) Between March and May of 2007 CALI surveyed law students who took courses in which faculty had podcast lectures as part of the …
The results of the 2007 CALI Legal Education Podcast survey are now available. (Well, ok – they’ve been available for a while now and I’m just getting around to posting about them.) Between March and May of 2007 CALI surveyed law students who took courses in which faculty had podcast lectures as part of the …
There is an article in the May 28th edition of the Wisconsin Law Journal on the proposed elimination of the Revisor of Statutes Bureau. If passed, the workload would be split amongst the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) and the Joint Legislative Council (JLC) – with no additional personnel to handle the increased workload. According to …
A few weeks ago, our Evening and Weekend Reference Librarian, Eric Taylor, noticed a large gap in the public domain citation numbers for the 2007 Wisconsin Court of Appeals opinions. Upon contacting the court, we received the following memorandum from Christopher Paulsen, Chief Deputy Clerk: Please be advised that the Public Domain Citation (PDC) numbers …
Margaret Booth, our Documents Assistant, clued me into a fun site for Badger fans called Bucky’s Badger Den. It’s geared for kids, but I have to admit that some of the games looked pretty fun. Check out my paper doll Bucky. Can you tell I’m going on vacation in a few weeks? Update – turns …
In the category of dumb criminals, JS Online has an article about people bragging about their crimes on MySpace – complete with photos. Of course, it doesn’t take long before the police come knocking at their doors.
GPO has announced that authenticated Public and Private Laws for the 110th Congress are now available on GPO Access as a searchable and browseable application in beta form. GPO’s Authentication initiative focuses on the primary objective of assuring users that the information made available by GPO is official and authentic… The Public and Private Laws …
The Wisconsin Historical Society has recently digitized the full text of The Wisconsin Magazine of History from volume 1 (1917) to volume 83 (1999). The journal is freely available on the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Web site. Not only is this good news for historical researchers, it holds special significance to me personally. My very first …
Thanks to my colleague, Cindy May, for passing on this YouTube video of Mr Bean’s visit to the library, posted on Law Librarian Blog. Hilarious.
It’s been reported on the GOVDOC-L listserv that Hein Online is scheduled to release some significant collections soon, including the following: Congressional Record Annals of Congress Register of Debates Congressional Globe Journals of the Continental Congress American State Papers According to the post, this collection will begin to appear in June 2007, with the remainder …