Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Today’s Odd Wisconsin is a classic The first legislature in 1838 met in a not-quite-finished Capitol building: According to one lawmaker, “the basement story was all open, and [a] large drove of hogs had taken possession. The weather was cold, the halls were cold, our ink would freeze – so that when we could stand …
Yesterday’s National Library Week Trivia Answer Question: In 1990, the opinion written by Judge Alex Kozinski in United States v. Syufy Enterprises (903 F.2d 659) grabbed headlines for its style as well as its legal substance. Why? Answer: Some suspected that the Ninth Circuit judge worked more than 200 movie titles into the text of …
Posted to our faculty listserv: Two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 this morning, the time and date was 01:02:03 04/05/06 That won’t happen again for a thousand years.
Posted to our faculty listserv: Two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 this morning, the time and date was 01:02:03 04/05/06 That won’t happen again for a thousand years.
JS Online reports on this year’s Who Reads What?, a list of celebrities’ favorite books compiled by Maine librarian, Glenna Nowell. Their responses ranged from the nice – Rosalynn Carter’s favorite is the Bible – to the naughty: dirty joke books favored by writer Piers Anthony. . . Many of the titles deal with more …
Law.com has introduced a desktop RSS Reader called Law.com NewsPoint. From the FAQ: What is Law.com NewsPoint? Law.com NewsPoint is a desktop newsreader. It allows you to sign up to receive updates from Law.com and other online publishers. Once you’ve installed Law.com NewsPoint on your computer, it will automatically check for news updates from Law.com …
Yesterday, it was the students’ turn to Stump the Library Staff (which we are still researching). For today’s National Library Week contest, we are back to asking the questions. In 1990, the opinion written by Judge Alex Kozinski in United States v. Syufy Enterprises (903 F.2d 659) grabbed headlines for its style as well as …
Yesterday, the University of Wisconsin Madison’s School of Library and Information Studies took part in the 8th Annual International Edible Books Festival. This festival invites participants to poke fun at literature, art, and food in equal measure by creating book-shaped or book-themed edible art. I regret that I couldn’t attend, but my colleague, Sue Center, …
Monday’s Guess the Grad Contest is history and we had quite a few folks participate. And a fair number who pointed out that question #1 didn’t quite hit the mark. Here are the answers as written by reference librarian, Jenny Zook: 1. Who is the UW graduate who sang, “I might get rich, you know …
In what we hope is the first of an annual tradition, we’ve added a new component to our National Library Week celebration: READ posters featuring UW Law School faculty members. Join us in the Law Library to view the posters featuring Asifa Quraishi, Gordon Smith, and Cheryl Weston. The posters turned out so well, in …