Legal Research News and Information with an Emphasis on Wisconsin
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 law librarians to social software and how to use it in their libraries. It will begin just after the AALL …
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 history. The collection primarily spans the years 1932 through Hurst’s death in 1997. The bulk of material dates between 1946 …
More news from Bruce Hoesly at the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau: The LRB has added an archive of superseded Administrative Code pages that were replaced between Register 1 (1956) and Register 541 (2001).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 pages replaced in that time period are included. As the Register numbers become lower, the amount of archived code in …
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 by improving Find A Case, document delivery capabilities, and the Loislaw homepage. Find A Case is a Loislaw tool to …
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 response. Acknowledging this interest, he’s shared with me “a summary of what we are thinking that you can share with …
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. Elizabeth Farrell of Florida State University College of Law has recently added a list of law libraries currently using LibGuides …
The next time you receive a corrupted file from a student, you may want to think twice. Thanks to one of our faculty members for passing this one on: From Inside Higher Ed: Corrupted-Files.com offers a service — recently noted by several academic bloggers who have expressed concern — that sells students (for only $3.95, …
Washington and Lee Law School has launched a free online law review submission service called LexOpus. From the About page: The system allows an author to submit a work to a sequence of author-selected law journals. An author may also, or instead, invite offers from any journal by choosing to indicate the work as open …
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that “a Virginia Circuit Court judge dismissed a lawsuit this morning against George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media. Thomson Reuters Inc. had sued the university in a Virginia court in September for at least $10-million in damages, claiming that Zotero, a free software tool created by …
There has been a lot of buzz the last several days about two new search engines – Bing, from Microsoft, and Google Squared. Bing Here’s a good description of Bing from SearchEngineWatch More than just a rebranding of Live Search, Microsoft is repositioning Bing as a “decision engine,” with a goal “to provide customers with …