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On Friday, January 25, 2008, Representative Ellison will once again be at the Law School’s MLK Raise the Bar event, as presenter of the third annual keynote address. The speech will be given in the Law School’s Lockhart Hall (Room 25) at 11:00 a.m. Representative Ellison will take questions from the audience at the conclusion of his talk.
All Law School students, faculty, staff members, alumni, and friends are invited to attend the address. The address will be available for viewing via webcast at www.law.umn.edu.
More about this event is at: http://www.law.umn.edu/news/ellison2008.html
Through the collaborative efforts of Cornell and UCLA, there is now available a bibliographic database of empirical legal studies and scholarship: the ELS Bibliography. It is available at:
http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/apps/els/
The database is a work-in-progress, and we welcome any comments or suggestions that users may have. The database allows author, title, and subject searching, as well as limiting by year. For more background information on the project, be sure to check the database description.
Empirical legal studies are increasingly important in the legal academy as it evolves to become more interdisciplinary. Moreover, empirical legal scholarship has direct relevance to the discussions of legal issues in today's public and political discourse. Thus, we hope that the ELS Bibliography will be a welcome resource.
Send feedback to: Matt Morrison
Research Attorney and Lecturer in Law
Cornell University Law Library
355 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca NY 14853-4901
607-255-2487
607-255-1357 (fax)
mmm72@cornell.edu
The law library will be open/staffed this weekend January 19-20, but the reference office will not be open.
Saturday: 9 am-6pm, Sunday noon-6 pm
The library will be closed on Monday Jan 21.
The library will resume normal semester hours Tuesday Jan 22:
M-Th 8 am-10 pm; Reference 9 am-8 pm
F 8 am-6 pm; Reference 9 am-5 pm
Sat 9 am-6 pm; Reference 11 am – 5 pm
Sun Noon-6pm; Reference 1-5 pm
Security monitors will be on duty this weekend and Monday as well.
In the January issue of College & Research Libraries News is a useful list of resources : "Election 2008 resources: Political information online, networked, and in the social world" compiled by Lorena O’English, social sciences reference and instruction librarian at Washington State University’s Holland and Terrell Libraries.
From the Article:
"While ten years ago most people got their political information from candidates or traditional media sources, such as television and newspapers, over the last decade Americans have increasingly been turning to the Internet as a major source for information. In just the last few years, options have gone beyond online providers that are linked to print media to new resources that have been born digital, especially with the rapid growth of Weblogs and the interactivity and user-generated content now available through social networking and Web 2.0 services, such as YouTube and MySpace.
This article highlights a number of sites that may be of use to librarians and library users who are looking to get information not just about candidates but also about the political process in our increasingly online, networked, and social world. Most of these resources include RSS feeds for some if not all of their content, and many include public forums or blog comments from members of the general public. The notion of a commenting culture is alive and well in the realm of online political information."
Source: C&RL News
Looking for some help using HeinOnline? Check out their blog for tips, enhancements, and other useful resources to make the most of your search! Here's a sample "Tip of the Week" from their blog:
Searching and Using Boolean Operators
Using the One-box and Advanced Search options:
When forming a search query using the One-box and Advanced Search options, you must use Boolean Operators (AND, +, OR, NOT, -) to combine multiple terms and you must capitalize the operators. Additionally, quotations are important when searching for a phrase or multiple phrases. Below are a few tips for building search queries using the Advanced and One-box search options.
Tip #1 - Boolean Operators must be all CAPITALS.
Use AND vs. and, OR vs. or, NOT vs. not. Using lower case operators can greatly impact the quantity and quality of your search results. Example: Input the following search query using the Advanced Search option within the Journals library:
text:"power imbalance" or "power balance in mediation" (choose all titles and leave section types checked to default options)
The quantity of results received is greater than 877,000. Now, modify the above search query to contain OR (in CAPITAL letters) and resubmit the query. The quantity of results received is 1,777.
Direct link to blog: http://heinonline.blogspot.com/
Source: http://law.hamline.edu/blog/bkallusky01
The law library's website has undergone a remodel! Check out our new look!
New user navigation tabs at the top of each page help direct you to custom information and resources. We've also opened up the "Quick Links" menu located on the left side of our home page for easier, direct access to some of our more popular resources and services.
If you would like to offer any feedback on the new site, please email lawlib@umn.edu with your message. Feel free to report any broken or misdirected links to this email as well.
Home Page: http://www.law.umn.edu/library/home.html
Tariq Hafeez, President of and General Counsel for LegalEase Solutions LLC, discusses outsourcing legal research on the Legal Process Outsourcing blog.
Source: Law Librarian Blog
"The aim of this web site is to make available materials unavailable elsewhere. There is no topic-oriented theme to our content. If we have a theme, it is one of openness, hence our motto: Videre licet."
Most recently added files:
FOIA Logs for US DOJ Environment and Natural Resources Division for FY2005–FY2007 - [01-Jan-2008]
FOIA Logs for US DOJ Professional Responsibility Advisory Office for FY2005–FY2007 - [01-Jan-2008]
FOIA Logs for US Trade and Development Agency for FY2004–FY2007 - [01-Jan-2008]
Two 1970s State Department documents related to Chinese Leaders - [22-Dec-2007]
DIA analysis of Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana, 12 Jan 1966 - [22-Dec-2007]
FOIA Logs for US Federal Trade Commission for FY 2005–FY 2007 - [22-Dec-2007]
FOIA Logs for Fed Mine Safety & Health Review Committee for FY 2006–07 - [22-Dec-2007]
2007 Law School Survey of Student Engagement Now Available
Here's the 2007 Law School Survey of Student Engagement (pdf). Produced by the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University-Bloomington, this year's LSSSE is based on online surveys completed by 27,000 students at 79 law schools.
Among the findings:
More than 75% of students rated their law-school experiences as good or excellent
More than 20% of 3Ls went to class unprepared
More than 33% of students will graduate with more than $100,000 in law school loans
Private law schools are more academically challenging than public law schools
African-American students are more frequently asked questions in class and participated in class discussions than other students
and an excerpt:
"The LSSSE core survey has helped expand our knowledge of law student engagement considerably, but there is more to discover. In 2008, we will introduce several sets of supplementary survey items to explore more deeply certain areas of student engagement. As legal educators continue to look more closely at the quality of the law school experience, provacative questions may arise. What is the best method to teach legal research skills? How do we make the most of students’ third year in law school? Does the traditional pedagogy suit the needs of 21st century lawyers? The LSSSE data can help us tackle these questions by enhancing our understanding of the underlying issues."
Sources: TaxProf Blog, Law Librarian Blog
Here is the list of new titles the law library acquired in December 2007. The list is also on the library's home page.
From the Harvard Business School's "Working Knowledge" magazine comes their top 20 most popular stories of 2007, including #2:
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't)
For HBS professor Andrew McAfee, Wikipedia is a surprisingly high-quality product. But when his concept of "Enterprise 2.0" turned up on the online encyclopedia one day—and was recommended for deletion—McAfee and colleague Karim R. Lakhani knew they had the makings of an insightful case study on collaboration and governance in the digital world.
See all the stories at http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5836.html