Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Law Journal has a nice article on UW Law profs, Stewart Macaulay and Marc Galanter, who each had an article included in the “The Canon of American Legal Thought,” an anthology looking at the top 20 works in American legal thought since 1890. From the article: Macaulay’s contribution was his 1963 article, “Non-Contractual …
To better reflect it’s purpose as the official web portal of the U.S. government, FirstGov.gov has changed its named to USA.gov. A Spanish version is also available.
TVC Alert reports: The Wisconsin Court of Appeals last week ruled that in accordance with the state’s open access law, PDF copies of information in a database do not substitute for access to the database. Therefore, the municipalities violated public records law when they denied plaintiff access to the information in the format it which …
From Law Librarian Blog: A group of students in Stanford Law’s advanced legal research class created a short (3 minute) silent film, Legal Research: The Movie. Fantastic! I guess the movie isn’t a “talkie” because some scenes were filmed in the law library.
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 us with reference questions. And it was free and easy. Interested in developing a chat service for your organization? Just …
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 to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives And there are lots of other really interesting sites. Definitely worth …
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 from the system. This includes proposals, committees, author information, etc, as well as your subscriptions for notifications to these items. …
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 offer instructions for: Filtering blog content using Google Blog Search and Feedster Filtering other RSS feeds with Feed Rinse Combining …
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 different title — for free. Software developers are giving away free copies of their software for one day only — …
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 series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for …