BadgerLink — the state’s online full-text library collections — now has access to five years of complete PDF pages from more than 250 Wisconsin newspapers, dailies and weeklies. This is a major breakthrough for those of you who need to search back issues of newspapers, as very few weeklies have any searchable archives and most dailies have extremely poor ones.

The nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism is hiring a reporting intern. Applications are due 5 p.m. Sept. 13.

Wisconsin’s written consumer complaints down in 2009 despite increases nationally

As elections draw nigh, librarian and WisconsinWatch blogger Ron Larson provides some tips on how to follow Wisconsin political money and keep tabs on the candidates.

Every action that sanctions official secrecy creates opportunities for abuse.

We love it when newsrooms steal our stuff and make it better. That’s what we’re here for.

Wisconsin InfoLink is an almanac of Wisconsin facts and resources compiled by Ron Larson. Each week on the WisconsinWatch blog, Larson introduces us to one of these gems.
I know I am biased, but libraries are great. Libraries of all kinds – public, academic and special – provide a deep offering of resources that can [...]

Learn how to use Wisconsin local governments’ property records to check out companies or people.