Get geared up for next week’s Wisconsin Film Festival by watching your favorites from years’ past. Check out the Madison Public Library’s collection of film fest titles. Thanks to What’s New from the Madison Public …
NYT Rethinks Free Access to Colleges Based on Librarian Complaints
The Chronicle of Higher Ed reports that the New York Times has altered its offer to make Times Select, which includes columnists and archives going back to the 1800s, available to college students for free. …
"Scribd is YouTube for Documents"
“Scribd is YouTube for documents,” says Neil Squillante of TechnoLawyer. This free online library where anyone can upload supports .doc, .pdf, .txt, .ppt, .xls, .mp3, and more. What’s in it for legal practitioners? According to …
Lecture on The Carnegie Library Designs of Claude & Starck
Tis’ the season for lectures, it seems. On Thursday, April 5th the Wright Lecture Series presents “The Shared Ideal: The Carnegie Library Designs of Claude & Starck.” The lecture will be held at 7pm in …
Siva Vaidhyanathan to Lecture on "The Googlization of Everything: Digitization & the Future of Books"
“The Googlization of Everything: Digitization and the Future of Books” is the topic of a UW-Milwaukee School of Information Studies lecture to be held May 12th. Speaker Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of the “Anarchist in the …
RSS Tracking for Canadian Bills
From Library Boy: LEGISinfo, the Library of Parliament’s legislative research website, has started offering RSS feeds since the beginning of this parliamentary session to help people track bills before the House of Commons and the …
Scott Turow to Lecture at UW-Madison on Monday
According to UW Madison News, lawyer and best-selling author Scott Turow will give a free lecture, “Reflections of a Man with Two Heads,” at 5 p.m. Monday, April 9, in Room 1100 of the University …
Workshops at the WI State Law Library
Looks like the Wisconsin State Law Library has an excellent slate of workshops planned this spring and summer. From their Web site: National Library Week Special WSLL Web Tours Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:00-10:00 a.m. …
Litilaw, a Database of CLE Articles
Litilaw is a new, free online collection of CLE materials and other articles of interest to litigators and other legal professionals. Articles are organized categories including Appellate Practice, Antitrust, e-Discovery, Expert Witnesses, Health Care, Product …
How Trustworthy are State-level Primary Legal Resources on the Web? Not Very, Says AALL Report
AALL has conducted a State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources. The report presents the results of a survey of primary online legal resources and whether these resources are official and capable of being …