Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
Kendall F. Svengalis’ Legal Information Buyer’s Guide & Reference Manual 2004 edition is now available on LexisNexis (Library: BUSREF, LEXREF & File: LEGBGD) Law librarians have long known the value of the buyer’s guide which includes information on a variety of legal information products in both print and electronic formats. Divided by publication type and …
Searching the federal budget just got easier with Vivisimo’s specialized search engine for the 1600 page+ United States Budget for Fiscal Year 2005. Vivisimo is a clustering search engine which places your search results into categories. To see the usefulness of this feature, enter education as your search term. On the left, notice that the …
The Department of Administration is seeking vendors to build a public wireless network for downtown Madison and the airport. According to Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, the project won’t use any taxpayer money. It will be installed by the winning bidder who will pay the state, county and city for …
In what appears to be a major expansion of the Google Print service, Google is set to begin an ambitious project of scanning hard-to-find books from five major library collections: New York Public Library, Harvard, Stanford, Michigan and Oxford in England. It’s estimated that the project could take more than a decade to complete given …
Boogle is Beta testing a new search tool called Google Suggest which suggests queries as you type in the search box. A drop down box open beneath the search box allowing you to choose a query. The suggestions may help you refine your search by adding additional terms to narrow, or perhaps broaden, your query. …
Anyone with his or her own blog should take a look at LLRX’s Bloggers Beware: Debunking Eight Copyright Myths of the Online World. The author debunks eight common misconceptions about copyright as it pertains to blogs. They are: Myth #1: It’s okay to use anything that doesn’t have a copyright notice. Myth #2: It’s okay …
Update: According to the TVC Alert, the national cell phone directory will used to provide a wireless directory-assistance service and not sold to third parties. Cell phone owners will have to opt-in. ————————————– It appears that a national directory of cell phone numbers is on the horizon. Luckily, the Federal Trade Commission has set up …
Today I’m giving a presentation entitled, “Blogging @ Your Library: Finding, Reading, and Creating Library Blogs” to the Fox Valley Library Council. For the first half of the session, I’ll give a powerpoint presentation introducing blogs and their value to librarians, techniques for finding and reading blogs (using Bloglines), and finally, outlining the steps for …
If you ever have to conduct medical research, you are probably already aware of PubMed, the free medical literature database from the National Library of Medicine. Now there is a new service called HubMed, an alternate search of the PubMed database that creates a custom RSS feed based on your search results. Simply click on …
      Today’s Wisconsin State Journal has a font page story about blogs. UW Law School blogs are featured prominently. According to the story, “At UW–Madison, the law school seems to be a leading force in blog development, with at least a dozen formed in the past year or two by professors and students.” …