Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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 sad. It seems that a NJ public library has seen no alternative but to close its doors during afterschool hours …
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 in the car, unless they are 4 feet 9 inches or taller or weigh 80 pounds or more. Wisconsin law …
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 a lot of nick-names as a kid. One of the longest lasting was “bruiser” I’m a big fan of sci-fi …
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
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 not ranked but rather is ordered alphabetically within each topic. WisBlawg is one of four specialty blogs.
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 government, SLD is now publicly available online, free of charge. Thanks to my colleague, Nancy Paul, for the tip.
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 for current legislation, federal register notices and more. Source: Library Stuff
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 country are busily analyzing this new member of the Google family and it looks promising. There’s much excitement because this …
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, according to a survey by the Travel Industry Association and the AAA. If you’ll be taking to the Wisconsin roads, …
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 collection spans the latter half of the 19th century. In addition to their usefulness for historians and genealogists, these plat …