Here’s a nice piece on dealing with multiple RSS feeds when they threaten to get overwhelming
Seven Tips for Making the Most of Your RSS Reader
which I saw on the excellent Law Librarian Blog.
-George Wilson
Cost Effective Legal Research Redux: How to Avoid Becoming the Accidental Tourist, Lost in Cyberspace
May 2, 2008 — Paul LomioToday’s issue of LSN Educator: Courses, Materials & Teaching (Vol. 4 No. 7, 05/02/2008 ) includes this interesting abstract:
“Cost Effective Legal Research Redux: How to Avoid Becoming the Accidental Tourist, Lost in Cyberspace”
NSU Shepard Broad Law Center Research Paper No. 08-004
Florida Coastal Law Review, Vol. 6, 2008
LISA SMITH-BUTLER, Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center
The goal of this article is to assist legal researchers with cost effectively retrieving legal information. To accomplish this, researchers should understand the various branches of the government and the primary sources of law produced by each branch. Researchers then need to understand and be able to evaluate the available formats, i.e. print or electronic, in which legal information is located. Fee and free electronic sites are reviewed and discussed. Free, reputable Internet sites that provide access to primary and secondary sources of American law are located and reviewed in detail.
Was your Great-Great Grandfather an Animal Thief?
May 2, 2008 — Erika WaynePaul recently wrote about the ability to search old tax returns in his post, “My Grandfather’s Tax Returns...”
Well, if your Grandfather’s Grandfather was brought to trial in English criminal courts, you can now search an amazing dataset of materials….for Free!
The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
“A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court.”
Check it out!
Erika
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