JUREEKA! NEW TOOL FOR LAW LIBRARIANS

Jureeka! is a Firefox extension from Michael Poulshock, a public interest lawyer in Pennington, NJ. It" turns legal citations in web pages into hyperlinks that point to online legal source material. Its handy toolbar also allows you to search for source material by legal citation and to find HTML versions of PDF pages. Jureeka! is great for quickly locating statutes, case law, regulations, federal court rules, international law sources, and more. It weaves together a host of law sources into a giant mesh."

You can create tags for legal sources found on the web and Poulshock has plans for a search/recommendation feature. Now Jureeka! links to around 275 volumes from the Federal Reporter, covering U.S. federal circuit court cases from 1880-1992 (hosted at Open Jurist (volumes 1-95) and Google Book Search (volumes 96-281), to several major Canadian legal sources, including: The Constitution Acts (1867 and 1982); Supreme Court cases from 1876 to the present (S.C.R. and SCC citations), Federal Court cases from 1988 to the present (F.C. citations), Consolidated Statutes of Canada, Consolidated Regulations of Canada; and citations to U.S. state cases in the regional reporters, such as A.2d, P.2d, P.3d, N.E.2d, N.W.2d, S.E.2d, and S.W.3d from the last decade or so, made available courtesy of Fastcase's Public Library of Law and Precydent.

I’m not a law librarian, but this seems like a great tool.

URLs:

Jureeka! blog: http://www.jureeka.blogspot.com/

Download from Firefox (now version 1.5): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6636

GREAT FIREFOX EXTENSION

Read it Later (beta) is a wonderful extension for Firefox that allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest. I really use and like it.

“When you come across something you want to read later, simply click the ‘Read Later’ button and the page is instantly inserted into your reading list. Then when you have some free time, just click ‘Reading List’ and it’ll randomly pull up something for you to read (or you can choose which article to read). When you are finished, click Mark it As Read and it will be removed from your list. If you found what you read to be worth bookmarking, you can use the dropdown under Mark it As Read to add it to your Firefox bookmarks or any online bookmark service such as Del.icio.us.”

URL: http://www.ideashower.com/ideas/active/read-it-later