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NEWS

Library Personnel

  • Job Opening

    • Applications are being accepted for EXECUTIVE LAW LIBRARIAN (PDF*)

  • Recent Hires

    • The Law Library is pleased to announce the addition of two new joint degree (law and library degree) reference librarians to its staff. They replace Sandy Keller who retired two years ago and Becky Lutkenhaus who left us this past spring. We hope you will all welcome them to the Law School community. Both of them are outstanding appointments chosen from a very large field of very well qualified applicants. They will significantly strengthen the capacity of the Library to serve the students and faculty of the Law School and University.

    Britnee Cole received a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 2007, where she was a staff editor of the University of Chicago Law Review, and a Master of Arts degree in Library Science from the University of Illinois in 2011. She was an associate for a year and a half after law school in the Chicago office of Perkins Coie working in the Private Equity, Real Estate and IP Litigation Practice Groups. She will spend her time as a general reference librarian with special emphasis on teaching law students and coordinating support for faculty research.

    Jacquelyn McCloud received a J.D. cum laude from the University of Akron in 2008 where she was Assistant Editor of the Akron Law Review and a Master of Library Science degree from Kent State University in 2010. After spending a year in practice she served for a year as a Digital Content Services/Reference Librarian at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library. She will spend her time as our Electronic Services Librarian and also as a general reference librarian.

    Electronic Resources

  • Bloomberg Law's Campus Visit

    • Bloomberg Law is a relatively new service that is positioning itself as an alternative to Lexis and Westlaw. It provides full text primary and secondary materials for U.S. state and federal jurisdictions. It has developed its own digest system for organizing the law, as well as its own citator system for indicating the precedential value of a document. In addition to its legal content, Bloomberg Law provides excellent news and business coverage, as well as docketing information for state and federal courts. Please see a reference librarian for assistance.

    Law students are now eligible to sign-up for Bloomberg Law accounts. Jed Lewin from Bloomberg Law will be here next week to register student accounts and offer research training sessions as follows:

    1L sign-up and research training
    Monday, January 30th 2:20-3:20 p.m. (Room 115) and 3:30-4:30 p.m. (Room 115)
    Tuesday, January 31st 3:30 -4:30 p.m. (Room 235)
    Wednesday, February 1st 2:20 – 3:20 p.m. (Room 225)

    2L/3L sign-up and research training
    Monday, January 30th 10:20-11:20 a.m. (Room 115) and 11:30-12:30 p.m. (Room 115)
    Tuesday, January 31st 10:20-11:20 a.m. (Room 115) and 1-2 p.m. (Room 295)
    Wednesday, February 1st 10:20-11:20 a.m. (Room 125) and 1-2 p.m. (Law Library Computer Lab)

    Please feel free to RSVP your attendance to Jed Lewin at jlewin3@bloomberg.net. If you do not RSVP, you may still attend a research training session subject to availability. Please be courteous and arrive before the stated start time for the research training session.

  • Dalloz.fr Dalloz is a French-language database offering acess to 33 annotated French codes, numerous French secondary treatise resources, and selected French legal journals. The codes-loi include: Code Civl; Code de Procédure Civile; Code Penal; Code de Procédure Pénale; Code de Commerce; Code de Travail; and Code de la Propriété Intellectuelle. The database is restricted access. See a Reference Librarian for login and password.

  • Canada Supreme Court Reports (HeinOnline) This collection contains the primary source for the official, bilingual series of published decisions of Canada's highest court, including more than 9,400 cases from 1876 - present.

  • China Guiding Cases Project (CGCP)Access English translations of Chinese guiding cases released by the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China pursuant to the Court's November 2010 provisions on "guiding cases" (i.e., seminal cases). The People's courts at all levels are to refer to these cases for guidance as they try similar cases. The Supreme People's Court currently is drafting further guidelines. The CGCP is an initiative of Stanford Law School.

  • China Legal Knowledge Database Chinese-language legal database integrating content officially sanctioned by the People’s Republic of China. Offers the following legal information: Chinese laws/regulations (1949 - )(includes laws, administrative rules/regulations, local rules/orders, court rules, and selected judicial interpretations); judicial decisions (1979 - ) in selected civil, criminal, administrative, and arbitral cases; and secondary sources (1994 - ), including law reviews and a huge selection of dissertations, theses, and conference proceedings.

  • LawInfoChina Contains English-language versions of Chinese legal information such as laws (statutes/legislation) and regulations (including related interpretations by the Supreme People’s Court); selected judicial decisions of the Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuratorate; legal news articles since 2000; gazettes containing useful documents and legislative histories; and selected leading law journals. The English-language homepage allows for searching in both English and Chinese.

  • HeinOnline: U.S. Federal Agency Documents, Decisions, and Appeals Library The 2012 Statistical Abstract of the United States (128th ed.) is one of many federal agency publications now available in The U.S. Federal Agency Documents, Decisions, and Appeals Library on HeinOnline. Also available are PDFs of full-text decisions from selected federal agencies, including decisions and orders from the following agencies: National Labor Relations Board (1935 – current); Federal Communications Commission Record (1986 – current); Internal Revenue Cumulative Bulletin (1919 – current); Nuclear Regulatory Commission Issuances (1975 – 2008); and Securities and Exchange Commission (1934 – 2003). This collection also contains popular agency publications, such as the U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines, Principles of Federal Appropriations Law, Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book, Freedom of Information Act Guide, and Manual for Courts-Martial.

  • ProQuest Statistical Datasets is a web-based research tool that enables researchers to access data from licensed and public domain datasets and build statistical tables and charts. Researchers are able to browse the 500 different datasets and 15 million datapoints, select subjects and variables, and view data in side-by-side tables and charts. Statistical Datasets includes data from several federal sources, such as: the United States Census Bureau, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federal Election Commission, IRS, and FBI. Statistical Datasets also has data from international sources; datasets include: the China Data Center, Shanghai Stock Exchange, Deutsche Börse Group and many more. Researchers can also access the following premium datasets: the complete collection of International Monetary Fund, all sub-national datasets in China Data Center, and Easy Analytic Software Inc. Market Planner (EASI).

  •  The Pentagon Papers comprise the Vietnam Relations, 1945 – 1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense. The Pentagon Papers chronicle the history of the United States Department of Defense’s political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. Access the complete 7,000 page report with no redactions. This collection also includes supplemental back-documentation and a complete account of peace negotiations.

  • Intellectual Property Law Resource Center (BNA) is categorized into four practice areas: Patent Law, Trademark and Unfair Trade Practice Law, Copyright Law, and Judicial Practice and Procedure. Resources include the Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal and the World Intellectual Property Report, as well as all decisions reported in United States Patents Quarterly (1929 - present), which includes patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret cases. The IP Law Resource Center also provides the full-text of IP laws and regulations, current news, analysis, and treatises in all areas of IP law practice. Selected titles of interest to IP practitioners include: BNA Corporate Practice Portfolios: Trademarks and Related Unfair Competition Law and Trade Secrets: Protection and Remedies, key treatises by Robert L. Harmon, Esq., Patents and the Federal Circuit (9th ed.) and Harmon on Patents: Black-Letter Law and Commentary, as well as the current Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) from the USPTO.

  • The New York Times Access to same-day full-text articles from The New York Times is available from Factiva. Factiva also provides archival coverage of NYT from June 1, 1980 to the present. If you access The New York Times from the Law Library’s Electronic Resources A To Z page, you will be linked directly to Factiva. The full-text of The New York Times (1980 – current) is also available from LexisNexis Academic, LexisNexis, and Westlaw. Historical coverage of The New York Times is also available from ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851 – 2007).

  • American Indian Law Collection This collection comprises more than 700 unique titles related to American Indian law. Access a vast digital archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence related to the law of American Indians. This collection also includes select legislative histories, scholarly articles, and other related works. Some notable titles include the Decisions of the Department of the Interior from 1883 to 1995 and the Opinions of the Solicitor of the Department of the Interior Relating to Indian Affairs from 1917 to 1974, and Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law. Also, available for the first time in digital format is Felix S. Cohen's Statutory Compilation of the Indian Law Survey. A Compendium of Federal Laws and Treaties Relating to Indians, Pts. 1 - 46 (1776 - 1938). This collection contains all of the resources that were included in HeinOnline's U.S. Department of the Interior Collection; the latter has been removed from the Electronic Resources A - Z list.

    • Reference & Research

    The Law Library is pleased to announce the publication of new research guides on over 50 legal topics. These guides provide short introductions to doing research in the Law Library, identifying relevant electronic and print materials and providing guidance on finding pertinent laws or cases. The guides cover a wide range of subjects, from Agricultural Law to Federal Civil Procedure to Public International Law. You can also get advice on Choosing a Student Note Topic or investigate the Judicial Nomination Process.

    Check out the full list of topics at the Research Guides homepage. The Guides can also be found from the Law Library’s Information Resources, Starting Legal Research, and Library Publications web pages.

    Computer Support

  • New computer? The law library computer staff can help setup your wireless, install antivirus software, and get you all ready for the new semester. Stop by Student Computer Support in Room 130 of the Law Library between 9 and 5 Monday through Friday.

  • PaperCut for Macs The Law Library now supports printing on Mac laptop computers. PaperCut must be installed on your Mac before you can print. Please go to Room 130 and Jeremy Grasby, Departmental Information Technology Specialist, will install PaperCut on you Mac laptop computer.

  • iPhone/iPad App for HeinOnline HeinOnline recently announced its new free iPad/iPhone App available for download. Researchers can use the app to search and browse content, as well as view PDFs. Authentication is required for access. To authenticate, simply access the app while on-campus. Authentication expires after 30 days. After 30 days, visit campus again to authenticate.
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