Photos of Milwaukee Businesses, Homes Now on Google
Google Street Views has made its way to Milwaukee. Simply do a Google search for an address in Milwaukee and click on the "Street Views" link in the resulting map. You'll see a panoramic view from the street like the one below. Notice that you can pan, rotate and zoom, as well as, move forward or backward down the street.
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Despite its usefulness for travelers, home buyers, etc., it's no surprise that Google Street Views has raised privacy concerns. See the related NYT article. Google does allow users to report inappropriate photographs.
Google Street Views is currently only available for major metro...
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - February 21, 2008 Tags: Data & Databases
B.C. Judicial Appointments
The Honourable Rob Nicholson, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, announced the following appointments:
The Honourable Mr. Justice Robert J. Bauman, a Judge with the Supreme Court of British Columbia is appointed a Judge of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia.
The Honourable Susan A. Griffin, Q.C., a lawyer with Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP in Vancouver, British Columbia is appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
The Honourable Deborah K. Lovett, Q.C., a lawyer with Lovett & Westmacott in Victoria British Columbia is appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
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BC Courthouse Library Society News - February 21, 2008
AALL Annual Meeting Web Site & Blog
It seems to be the day for AALL blogs. In addition to the afore mentioned Washington Affairs blog, the AALL Annual Meeting blog also makes its debut today. Actually, it's more than just a blog - it's a whole Web site.
Here are some of creator Jason Eiseman's favorite features:
It's a single website: in previous years blogs & websites were separate, with different styles, url's, etc. This is often due to hosting issues, we were really lucky to have Lewis & Clark's option for WordPress.
Fewer navigation links. We really wanted to cut down on how many links people had to deal with, so we simplified the home page and a...
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - February 21, 2008 Tags: Libraries & Librarians
New Blog from AALL Washington Affairs Office
Washington Blawg is the new blog from the AALL Washington Affairs Office.
Here at the Washington Affairs Office (WAO) of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), we're always trying to find new ways to update our members and others about the latest policy news, resources, and activities in D.C. and around the country. After considering the different ways we currently communicate with our members (primarily through our Advocacy Listserv, our monthly E-Bulletin, and AALL's From the Desk of... E-Newsletter), we determined we needed a new, fast, and comprehensive way to update our members and friends about our wo...
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WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library - February 21, 2008 Tags: Libraries & Librarians
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Opens February 25, 2008
On February 25, 2008, the second and final phase of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre opens to the public. Academic peer assistants will host a Welcome Desk near the main entrance until late March, where tours and information...
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Law Library Blog - February 21, 2008 Author: Elim Tags: General Announcements
Opening: Fellowship in Law Librarianship, Univ. of Arizona
Law grads (or soon to be ones) who are interested in pursuing law librarianship by earning a LIS degree should look into the law librarianship fellowship offered by the University of Arizona's College of Law Library. The fellowship, which includes...
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Law Librarian Blog - February 21, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Employment Opportunties
Top Ten Myths of Social Security
Check out Richard Kaplan's (Illinois) Top Ten Myths of Social Security. Here's the abstract: Few federal programs are as well known and as widely misunderstood as Social Security, despite its national prominence in matters both political and economic. As efforts...
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Law Librarian Blog - February 21, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Scholarship
Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews
Reviews published in the February 11, 2008 issue of InSITE: Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler Compassion Index Real Lawyers Have Blogs State Cancer Legislative Database Program Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice [RJ]
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Law Librarian Blog - February 21, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Reviews
Open Access Publishing in the Legal Academy
Gene Koo, CALI Fellow and co-editor of Law School Innovation blog, writes: The openness of law schools'journals is largely due to history rather than deliberate planning. It gives law schools a huge potential leg up in entering the digital knowledge...
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Law Librarian Blog - February 21, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Digital Collections
Are You an IT Omnivore?
What kind of information technology user are you? Take the PEW/INTERNET Internet Typology Test to see where you fit. [JH]
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Law Librarian Blog - February 21, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Information Technology
Professional Reading: MBCAP's Methodology for Evaulating State Public Access Laws
A must read! -- [JH] Bill Chamberlin, et al. Searching for Patterns in the Laws Governing Access to Records and Meetings in the Fifty States by Using Multiple Research Tools, 18 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 415-445 (2007) [Westlaw]...
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Law Librarian Blog - February 21, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Professional Readings
New Indigency Standards
The US Department of Health and Human Services issued new Federal Poverty Guidelines in the January 23, 2008 Federal Register, which will affect the determination of indigency in Massachusetts courts.One definition of indigency under MGL c.261, s.27A is "a person whose income, after taxes, is one hundred and twenty-five per cent or less of the current poverty threshold...", and so the Supreme Judicial Court has put a helpful memo on their site which provides a table of 125% of the current poverty threshold by family size. This is linked from Affidavit of Indigency and Related Documents, which also includes requisite fo...
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Massachusetts Law Updates - February 21, 2008 Author: Meg
"Protect Yourself From Data Armageddon"
In the news: Attorney and consultant Ari Kaplan observed that there is so much confidence in the power of forensic...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 21, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Technology Tips
"Solution to the Privacy Problem for Legal Data Storage"
From the e-newsletter: (EVault) - In a world of growing regulatory requirements surrounding data privacy, IT and business managers must...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 21, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: E-Discovery
"State Level Electronic Discovery"
Posted by Chuck Kallendorf: With all of the excitement, or maybe trauma, over electronic discovery this past year, one might...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 21, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: E-Discovery
"The Greening of Your Copy Machine"
Posted by Sabrina Pacifici: Press release: "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is launching this week the first steps toward new...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 21, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: E-Government
"The Curing Law: On the Legal Evolution of Baby-Making Markets"
From the blog: [Their] Source: Columbia Public Law & Legal Theory Working Papers How has morality shaped current baby-making markets?...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 21, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Uncategorized
"Law Firm Pricing Management"
Posted by Brian J. Ritchey: One of the more common questions I hear asked by attorneys is how to set...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 21, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Law Practice Management
"Eight Guidelines for Ethical Online Marketing"
From the e-newsletter: (FindLaw's LawyerMarketing.com) - There's no single, "one-size-fits-all" set of ethics rules that apply to every law firm's...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 21, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Marketing
"How to Write for the Client"
Posted by Raymond Ward: The good folks at What About Clients? care about good legal writing. By eliminating the legalese...
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Stark County Law Library Blog - February 21, 2008 Author: Nancy Tags: Legal Writing
Analysis of yesterday's Danforth v. Minnesota decision
From ScotusBlog's Lyle Denniston, thoughts on one of the Supreme Court's most recent decisions: Analysis: 'Creating' or 'declaring' rights
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novalawcity - February 21, 2008 Author: Mary-Paige Smith
