Jane Pribek of the Wisconsin Law Journal has written a useful article on the lawyer directories, Justia and Avvo. From the article: Justia is led by former FindLaw CEO and co-founder Tim Stanley. It’s more …
John Hodgman on Obama as America's First Nerd President
I found myself laughing out loud this morning watching John Hodgman’s speech at the 2009 Radio and TV Correspondents’ Dinner. Maybe it’s a nerd thing. Here’s a description from the Mental Floss Blog: Sitting on …
10 Tips for Networking at Conferences
Jason Eiseman has compiled a great list of tips for networking at conferences. Although his list specifically mentions the CALI and AALL conferences, his suggestions certainly apply much more broadly. Here’s the basic list – …
Petition to Improve PACER
Erika Wayne of Stanford Law School has spearheaded a petition to improve PACER and make it more widely available. The PACER service provides on-line access to U.S. Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy court records and documents …
Web 2.0 Challenge 2009 Registration Opens Today
As I posted earlier this month, the American Association of Law Libraries Computing Services Special Interest Section is sponsoring the Web 2.0 Challenge again this summer. The Challenge is five-week online course that will introduce …
UW Law Library Releases Digitized Papers of J. Willard Hurst, Father of Modern American Legal History
The University of Wisconsin Law Library is very pleased to announce the release of the J. Willard Hurst Collection which details the career of the man commonly identified as the father of modern American legal …
Superseded WI Admin Code Added to LRB Website
More news from Bruce Hoesly at the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau: The LRB has added an archive of superseded Administrative Code pages that were replaced between Register 1 (1956) and Register 541 (2001). Not all …
Forthcoming Loislaw Enhancements & Widgets
In the recent Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin newsletter, Nancy Scibelli of Quarles & Brady describes some forthcoming Loislaw enhancements and widgets: Wolters Kluwer will be making a number of enhancements to Loislaw this summer …
WI Admin Code Questions Answered: Paperless Rationale, Upgrades to Web Format, Superseded Code
Bruce Hoesly, Revising Attorney/Code Editor at the Legislative Reference Bureau, tells me that the survey which I posted here last week on whether the Wisconsin Admin Code should go paperless generated quite a bit of …
Law Libraries Using LibGuides
LibGuides is a “web 2.0 library knowledge sharing system” offered by the company Springshare. LibGuides is growing in popularity among all kinds of libraries, including law libraries as a platform for creating web-based research guides. …