The UW Law Library has recently upgraded our IM/chat reference service with a new tool called Plugoo. We’ve added a text chat box to our home page inviting our students, faculty, and staff to contact …
Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2006
The ALA Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has named Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2006. Highlights include: AF: Acronym Finder Constitution Finder E-how How Products are Made In the first person: An index …
Time to Resubscribe to Wisconsin Legislative Notification Service
Yesterday, I received this notice from the Wisconsin Legislative Notification Service: The Wisconsin Legislative Notification Service will be temporarily unavailable until January 4th, 2007. During this time the 2005-2006 legislative session data will be removed …
Article on Filtering RSS Feeds
I’m please to report that my article, Too Much Information: Filtering RSS Feeds, appears in the Winter 2006 issue of Connecting…, the newsletter of the AALL Computing Services Special Interest Section. In the article, I …
Free Software Giveaway of the Day
From Inter Alia: Free Software…..Every Day I’ve been a big fan of Giveaway of the Day for about a month now. It’s a site that offers fully licensed software to you every day — a …
UWDC Digitizes Additional Volumes of Foreign Relations of the United States
The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections has recently digitized additional volumes of the Foreign Relations of the United States. It now covers 311 volumes from 1861 to 1958/1960. The Foreign Relations of the United States …
News is Not Good for Libraries
It seems that libraries are big news today – and none of it is good: Today’s New York Times has a story entitled, Lock the Library! Rowdy Students Are Taking Over. This one is truly …
WI Booster Seat Law to be Enforced Starting in January
From the Capital Times: Starting January 1st, Wisconsin authorities will start enforcing a law that requires children who are at least 4 years old but younger than 8 to travel in a booster seat while …
Five Little Known Things About Me – One of Which Isn't True
I’ve been tagged by Steve Matthews over at Vancouver Law Librarian Blog to share five things little known things about myself. Only four of them are true. Can you guess which one isn’t? I had …
Legal Blog Awards
Tis the time of year for blog awards. Here are two which honor legal blogs: Dennis Kennedy’s 2006 Blawggies Blawg Review’s Awards 2006