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Google Patents, Google Scholar and Now Google Law?
It was announced on Aug. 11 that Google Ventures dropped $18.5 million into Rocket Lawyer, an online company that provides legal forms. So this raises the question: Will we be seeing Google Law in the near future? Google and the law Google has set itself up as a leader in information…
Law School Survival Tips from a Recent Graduate: Simplify Your Life and Warn Your Loved Ones
First-year boot camp has ended, and regular classes have begun. Many of you are still a bit dizzy from all of the new responsibilities that law school has thrust upon you. Fresh out of law school, the Wheat Law Library's new Faculty Services Senior Researcher, Ashly Basgall, has a few tips to help…
Goodbye to Green: Farewell Letter from Todd Rogers
Welcome back to Green Hall! The beginning of the 2011-12 academic year is bittersweet for me, as it marks the end of my tenure at KU Law and a return to Boulder, Colo. I recently accepted the position of Assistant Dean of Career Development at the University of Colorado Law School, where I…
Could You Be Getting More Out of Google's Search Engine? Some Tips and Tricks
Recently, the Wheat Law Library received a book titled Google for Lawyers: Essential Search Tips and Productivity Tools," by Carole A. Levitt and Mark E. Rosch. I instantly fell in love with it. For those of you who don’t know, Google started off as a basic search engine but has grown into a means…
Friendly Faces and Tasty Food: New Admissions Sean Confirms Rumors, Busts Myths About Midwest
Hello! It’s been six weeks since I moved from Philadelphia to Lawrence to begin my new position as Assistant Dean of Admissions here at the KU School of Law. Now there’s an old adage that a visitor can only really understand a place if they’ve been there two weeks or 20 years. I’m going to stretch…
Wheat Law Library New Book List for March 2011
We had quite a few new books come out in March at the Wheat Law Library! I would love to list all of them but that would take up too much space. So I went through and picked out the titles I think look interesting. If you would like to see the entire list or check out any of these books (provided…
Wheat Law Library Celebrates National Library Week
National Library Week is observed this year from April 10 through April 16 with the theme "Create your own story @ your library." The first sponsored National Library Week was in 1958, and the American Library Association has continued this yearly celebration in April ever since. It's a great time…
Are You Ready for Copyright School?
In an attempt to educate its users about copyright law, YouTube has debuted "Copyright School," a video that explains why videos are removed from YouTube: While "Copyright School" does a great job of telling you what you can't do with copyrighted content, it does a very poor job of telling you…
Wheat Law Library New Book List for April
April 2011 New Books List This list of April's new books at the Wheat Law Library seems to go on and on! And this is just a sampling from the first few pages! Sorry about all of the agricultural books. I must admit that I have a fondness for farm enterprises. If you would like to see the…
Executive Talks About Features of WestlawNext
Interview with Mark Schiff, vice president of product marketing at Thomson Reuters regarding the launch of WestlawNext. Taken from the CRIV Sheet: The Newsletter of the Committee on Relations with Information Vendors. Mark Schiff, in an interview with Caren J. Biberman, gives us the low-down…