Stay Informed About New Legislation

Via the Law Library of Congress, if you would like to stay informed about what legislation has passed Congress and is awaiting the president's signature, you can do so by subscribing to RSS feeds or via email alerts. The following are some topics for which RSS feed or email alerts are available:

• THOMAS: Bills Presented to the President (RSS or email)
• THOMAS: Daily Digest (RSS or email)
• THOMAS: House Floor Today (RSS or email)
• THOMAS: Senate Floor Today (RSS or email)

Click here to view the complete list of all RSS feeds available and all topics for which alerts can be sent via email.

GovFresh--Government 2.0

GovFresh is a live feed of official news from U.S. Government Twitter, YouTube, RSS, Facebook, Flickr accounts and more, all in one place.

Right now it includes the White House, Supreme Court, Congress, a number of Cabinet departments, along with some agencies (including the EPA), the Army, and the RNC and DNC.

THOMAS Launches RSS Feed and Email Subscriptions

The Library of Congress THOMAS database was launched to make federal legislative information freely available to the public. Since its launch in 1995, THOMAS has grown exponentially. It now offers RSS feed and email subscriptions.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a technology that allows organizations to deliver news to a desktop computer or other Internet device. By subscribing to RSS feeds, users can easily stay up-to-date with areas of the Library's site that are of interest. The Law Library of Congress now offers RSS feeds for use in an RSS reader or RSS-enabled Web browser. Library feeds consist of headline, brief summary, and a link that leads back to the Library's Web site for more information. Available feeds cover: THOMAS: Daily Digest, Law Library News and Events, Law Library Webcasts, Current Legal Topics, and the Global Legal Monitor.

Click here to view the list of available subscriptions, and to read more about RSS Feed as well as email subscription.

Get Notified About New CALI Lessons

CALI, the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction is an online services that most of you might be familiar with. For those who are not, The CALI mission reads as follows:

it is a services that advances global legal education through computer technology, employs research, collaboration, and leadership to assist a diverse audience in the effective use of this technology in legal education, and promotes access to justice through the use of computer technology.

CALI offers various services among which are CALI lessons. These lessons are divided by what is recommended for First-year law students, and what is recommended for Second- and Third-year law students. Most likely, your law school subscribes and all you need is to contact your librarian to obtain the authorization code, if you already have not done so.

CALI now offers a new service - to be notified every time a new CALI lesson is added to the list. You can receive these updates via email subscription or add RSS feed to your reader, such as Google reader, or to your Outlook RSS Feeds. Stay Informed and let us know what your think!

Legal Workshop - Legal Scholarship in Lay Terms

The Legal Workshop is a website providing an online forum for legal scholarship from the top law journals in the country. If you are looking for a concise summaries of law review articles written in plain English, the Legal Workshop might be exactly what you are looking for. Current law review members are:

• Cornell Law Review
• Duke Law Journal
• Georgetown Law Journal
• New York University Law Review
• Northwestern University Law Review
• Stanford Law Review
• University of Chicago Law Review

Via Law.com,

The site aims to bring content from some of the most prestigious law reviews in the nation to a wider audience by offering condensed version of articles translated from scholarly language into plain English, and at no cost.

The New York University Law Review managing editor Matthew Lawrence who helped launch this website said:

Our goal was to provide free legal scholarship in a format accessible to laypersons.

The Legal Workshop website allows you to browse by a topic and/or a journal. You can subscribe to receive all new updates via email and/or by adding a RSS feed to your reader, such as Google Reader, or to your Outlook RSS feeds. You can also subscribe to the user-submitted comments feed.

2009 Swine Flu

The USA.gov Home Page has been updated with a new link to Swine Flu. Find guidance, travel notices, and other information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about human cases of swine flu in the U.S.

Also, if you have not done so yet! You can receive daily updates from the USA.gov Home Page via e-mail. Information about how to subscribe for daily updates can be found here. You can also receive updates via RSS feeds for the following topics:

• Gov Gab Blog
• News and Features Updates from USA.gov
• Popular Government Questions from USA.gov
• Money News from Puerto Rico
• Health News from Puerto Rico
• Consumer News from Pueblo RSS Feed

Stay Informed!

Pace Law Library New Acquisitions RSS Feed

Would you like to know what new books and other materials our Pace Law Library acquire? An updated list of all Pace Law Library acquisitions can now be accessed via our new RSS feed, http://innopac.pace.edu/feeds/new-titles-law-library.xml. You can add it to your reader, such as Google Reader, or you can access the list by clicking on the 'New Library Acquisitions' link, under Collection title, from our law library home page. Thank you Jindi!

Any easier to keep track?! I'd think so. Enjoy!

U.S. Court of Appeals For The 1st Circuit Implements RSS

United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit announced the implementation of RSS feed on their official website. The audio recordings of the court's oral arguments and electronic versions of the court's opinions are now available via RSS (Real Simple Syndication).

Until now, electronic versions of the court's opinions were available only through e-mail with an opinion attached. We will soon be phasing out this method and strongly encourage current subscribers to convert to RSS, which will allow you to search, sort, and filter information.

Please click here to read the full announcement of the court and to learn how to set up your RSS reader that collects the information for you. Standard web browsers, such are FireFox, Safari, Opera, or Internet Explorer have RSS readers embedded within, or you can set up other readers such as Google Reader. Once you have your reader set up, add the URL for desired RSS feed to your reader which will automatically deliver the information without cluttering your email inbox.

This is the RSS feed URL for the U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit opinions: http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/

The site also offers news updates under What's New.