Basic Guide to Researching Foreign Law

 Law librarian Mary Rumsey has an  update to this guide.

Learn about scientific evidence

Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence - wish some folks would read, especially How Science Works chapter.

Tribal Law article

A very smart article by law librarian extraordinaire Bonnie Shucha - Whatever Tribal Precedent There May Be : The (Un)availability of Tribal Law in LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL Vol. 106:2 [2014-11].

Prairie Home Companion retrospective

Off topic for my usual intentions here, but Prairie Home Companion was an amazing find for me years ago. I stopped listening for some reason but it will always have a fond  place in my heart.  Nice story here.

More Google tips

Some things to do with Google you may have not known or forgotten about. Lil Kitteh is already bored with it.

Carter Presidential Library news

From the site - The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum is excited to announce the official start of its online Digital Library with the “release” of approximately 89,000 pages of digitized textual records from the Presidential “Handwriting” Files of the Office of Staff Secretary. These documents, previously only available in physical form, have been digitized and placed online for easier access. Each file unit has been digitized into a single PDF.

LGBT EO

POTUS signs LGBT Exec Order.

Legal apps

From Lawyerist, a few weeks ago - legal apps to check out

Explore, Legislatively

Legislative Explorer lets you visually trace the progress bills and resolutions as they progress through Congress. Lots of cool moving parts.

Maximize Google

The Social Law Library just published Top Five Ways to Maximize Google Searches.

Online Books site

This no-frills site says "Listing over 1 million free books on the Web".

Survey on legal research skills

Guess what? It's not good.  The survey "asked respondents how well recent law school graduates performed certain legal research skills. Generally speaking, the librarian respondents reported significantly more negative opinions about the research skills of recent law school graduates than reported by similarly situated attorneys. On question after question, a significantly greater proportion of the librarians rated the ability of recent graduates to carry out the research task at issue as “unacceptable,” “poor” or both, than did the attorneys."

Fun with titles

Best.Title.Ever.  - a slightly overstated but fun look at gov docs.

Weird, yes, but In a good way!

Love Lynda Barry.  Here are her deep thoughts on reading.

Post 4th reading

Thomas Jefferson's Version of the Declaration of Independence, neat article on Mental Floss.

 

Supreme Court term review

Hey, I'm in the audience!

Fascinating map

This map gives the stats on easier and harder places to live in the U.S. You could spend hours on this.