Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Beginning with Weekly List 1 for 2007, the Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists and Library of Congress Classification Weekly Lists are now available as free RSS feeds. Thanks to my colleague, Cindy May for the tip.
beSpacific has a great tip for saving money on Amazon: RSStalker.com provides RSS feeds to track price changes of Amazon.com products. Generate a feed for a single product or for an entire wishlist. Add it to your favorite aggregator and you will be automatically notified when the price changes. Simply unsubscribe to the feed when …
Just in time for National Library Week, Archie McPhee has a wicked selection of temporary tattoos for librarians. For a better view, check out Stupid.com. Source: Out of the Jungle
From the Daily Cardinal: The U.S. Postal Service in Madison announced Monday it will be moving into the vacant building previously occupied by McDonald’s at 441 N. Lake St. According to Terri Bouffiou, spokesperson for Madison’s postal service, the post office will start renovations on the building once a contractor is chosen. She said by …
An article in Monday’s New York Times opens with the provocative quote: “I haven’t opened up a law review in years,” said Chief Judge Dennis G. Jacobs of the federal appeals court in New York. “No one speaks of them. No one relies on them.” Judge Jacobs was explaining to a gathering of law professors …
The Friends of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Library semiannual used book sale starts today. The sale will be held for the March 21-24, at Memorial Library, 728 State St (room 116) Today is the preview sale ($5 admission) which will be held from 5-9 p.m. The regular sale, open to the public at no charge, …
Anne Reed, trial lawyer and jury consultant in the Milwaukee office of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, SC, has started a very well done blog entitled, Deliberations. The focus of the blog is juries, jury trials and jury selection. Not only is the blog well written, Anne does a great job of using images to attract …
A Lawyer Walks into a Bar is the name of a new lawyer documentary from Camel’s Back Films. According to the web site, “the documentary explores the influence of law and its practitioners on American culture, while following six characters as they do whatever it takes to become lawyers themselves. WARNING: the film contains karaoke, …
I recently learned about a fairly odd Google search feature. If you type in the name of a celebrity followed by the word “height,” Google will tell you how tall the person is (if they have the data). Thanks to one of my UW–Madison library colleagues for the tip – albeit an odd one.
University of Wisconsin Law School Prof Alan J. Weisbard has started the aptly named blog, The Wise Bard. He’ll be writing about “life and law and things that matter (to me): bioethics, the experience of illness, law and legal education, Jewish affairs, religion and state, contemporary culture, and, of course, politics.”