Last week, the Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin sponsored two events for library school students interested in learning about a career law librarianship. Thursday’s session was held in Madison and Friday’s was in Milwaukee. In …
Digital Cameras Have Digital Fingerprints
From EurekAlert (American Association for the Advancement of Science): Child pornographers will soon have a harder time escaping prosecution thanks to a stunning new technology in development at Binghamton University, State University of New York, …
Today is AskAway Day – Virtual Reference Service
Governor Doyle has proclaimed today, Monday, April 24 as AskAway Day in Wisconsin. AskAway is a new statewide virtual reference service. Live chat with a librarian using a very simple Web service. There is no …
Corporate Blogging Best Practices
The UW E-Business Consortium’s Corporate Weblogging Best Practices is a must for any firm or business that has a blog or is thinking about starting one. Actually, it’s worthwhile for any firm or business wanting …
Star Trek Visions of Law and Justice
If you are a Trekkie like me, you might be interested in Star Trek Visions of Law and Justice. From the publisher’s site: Star Trek Visions of Law and Justice weds popular media with academic …
StateMaster for State Statistics
The folks who brought us NationMaster.com, have released a new tool called StateMaster.com, a statistical database which allows you to research and compare a multitude of different data on U.S. states. This is pretty sweet. …
Who Owns the Moon?
Who owns the moon? Now that would have been a good Stump the Librarian question. From the Moritz Legal Information Blog: The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is a good place to …
Korea Explores the Use of Blogs in Court Proceedings
From the Korea Times: Weblogs, or Internet diaries, are about to gain more than just curious readers. Korean courts are now experimenting whether they could operate court trials and hearings just through Internet postings, saving …
Judges' Opinions on Blogging
In his blog, 3L Epiphany, Ian Best, a student at Moritz College of Law (Ohio State University), has some fascinating posts exploring judges’ opinions on blogging. Best surveyed two judges, Judith Lanzinger (Ohio Sup. Ct.) …
Westlaw Introduces eForms
Westlaw recently released a new service called Westlaw eForms. These fill-in-the-blank forms are available for federal courts, state and local courts, bankruptcy courts, and government agencies. Forms are both saveable and emailable. For more information, …