The Wisconsin Film Festival will be showing Gideon’s Army, a documentary about the daily work lives of three present day public defenders, at the Marquee Theater in Union South on Thursday April 11 at 9:00p. …
Paper is not Dead!
From the Law Library Directors email list, I hope you enjoy this short video demonstrating that Paper is not Dead! It certainly made me laugh.
Top Ten Things Law Librarians Wish Law Students Would Know or Do
In preparation for a session that I’m doing for some of our Legal Research and Writing students next week, I pulled together a list of Top Ten Things Law Librarians Wish Law Students Would Know …
Thomson Reuters Sells Law School Publishing Division
By Kris Turner, Reference and Technology Services Librarian Thomson Reuters has officially gotten out of print publishing for law schools. On Friday, February 2nd, the publishing wing of the legal research giant was sold to …
Digital Commons Network Makes Open Access Articles More Accessible
bepress recently launched a new product called The Digital Commons Network. It indexes and makes available scholarship contained in the broad network of open access institutional repositories that use the Digital Commons platform. Digital Common …
WisBar Launches New Website
By Kris Turner, Reference and Technology Services Librarian The Wisconsin State Bar launched a completely redesigned website on February 4th. Located at http://www.wisbar.org, the new site is the first upgrade since 2005. Combining resources that …
City of Madison Launches Open Data Platform
From the journal, Government Technology: On Jan. 8, city officials announced the launch of its open data ordinance and a more accessible open data platform. Thus far, only one other city in the country, New …
Wisconsin Women Legislators
The Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau has recently published a brief summarizing the service of Wisconsin women legislators. Section I lists all women members alphabetically by house and indicates their party, district, occupation, and terms of …
Whitepaper Compares Caselaw Citators
Internet for Lawyers recently posted a whitepaper in which authors, Carole A. Levitt and Mark Rosch, compare the results generated by the following caselaw citators: Google Scholar, Fastcase, Casemaker, LexisNexis, WestlawNext, and Bloomberg. Registration is …
UW Law School and Library Open Friday
The Law School and Library are both open for business as usual today.