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 what you can do with copyrighted content — namely, …
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 to recognize the contributions our libraries have made to our …
Working for a student publication is worth the effort
The Kansas Law Review and Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy offer KU Law students a unique opportunity to serve as editors on a publication. Law reviews and journals are unique from many other academic or scientific journals in that students, as opposed to faculty or an independent editing board, are responsible for the compilation, editing and publication of …
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 …
CALI Lawdibles: your audio law professor
Here’s the setup: You’ve just arrived for your professor’s office hours with 10 minutes left. You can ask only one question, and your professor has to answer quickly, but also completely and accurately. Enter Lawdibles. Lawdibles are 10-minute audio recordings of law professors answering very specific questions you will likely encounter in law school. But unlike a lot of study …
Added features make iPad 2 worth a look
The iPad 2 is being release on March 11, and I’m not going to lie to you here: I really want one. Yeah, I know that many of you think of the iPad as the Jar Jar Binks of the tech world, and I can respect that. But there are some added features that I believe make the iPad 2 …