I’m very honored to learn that WisBlawg has recently been named as a Top 100 Education Blog by the OEDb: Online Education Database. Not bad considering there are over 30,000 education blogs. The list is …
UK Statute Law Database Free on Web
Just released today, the UK Statute Law Database (SLD) is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online. Previously accessible only to a limited number of users in …
Library of Congress & Copyright Office RSS Feeds
Looks like the Library of Congress is offering a handful of RSS feeds. There are general feeds about library news and events, as well as feeds from the U.S. Copyright Office. The latter features feeds …
Google Offers US Patent Searching Back to 1790
Google has recently added one more to it’s specialty search engine tool box: Google Patent Search. Nancy Spitzer, Patents and Technical Reports Librarian at UW-Madison’s Wendt Library, had this to say: Patent librarians across the …
Traveling This Season? Check the Road Conditions
CNN reports that a record number of Americans will be traveling this holiday season – about 65 million people between December 23 and January 2, more than the record 63.5 million who traveled last year, …
Online Plat Maps & City Directories Offer Historical Land Use & Ownership Information
A collaboration between the University of Wisconsin Digital Collection Center and the Madison Public Library has produced a digital collection of Historical County Plat Maps from South Central Wisconsin and Early Madison City Directories. The …
New Federal Rule Re: Citing Unpublished Opinions
As of January 1st, the following important change to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure is scheduled to go into effect. Rule 32.1. Citing Judicial Dispositions (a) Citation Permitted. A court may not prohibit or …
Remote Printing From Anywhere
From inter alia: Remote Printing Made Easy PrinterAnywhere is an interesting application — it allows you to safely print documents on any printer, anywhere in the world — or to have documents printed on your …
Librarian's Ultimate Guide to Search Engines Has Tips for Everyone
Scott Hawksworth over at DegreeTutor has created a very useful guide for online research called the Librarian’s Ultimate Guide to Search Engines. It covers “things librarians understand about search – and things that anyone doing …
NYT on Why Spam Has Increased Lately
The New York Times has an interesting piece on the increase in spam in the last six months. According to the NYT: – Spammers are “conscripting vast networks of computers belonging to users who unknowingly …