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Westlaw, Lexis & Bloomberg advanced training

March 26th, 2015 No comments

Westlaw, Lexis & Bloomberg are offering advanced training classes to prepare students for summer jobs & practice.

Here’s the schedule:

  • Bloomberg
    • Thursday 4/2 at 2 pm & 5:30 pm in T503
  • Lexis
    • Thursday 3/26 at noon in 237, at 2 pm & 5:30 pm in T503
    • Wednesday 4/1 at noon in 237, at 2 pm & 5:30 pm in T503
  • Westlaw
    • Tuesday 3/31 at noon in T503
    • Monday 4/6 at 5:30 pm in T503

Library offers “Prepare to Practice” research workshop

April 15th, 2013 No comments

The cost of subscription based legal information continues to rise as courts, firms and non-profits are looking for ways to cut costs. All legal professionals should be aware of the resources that are available for free online.

As part of the Law Library’s National Library Week Celebration (April 14th – 20th), come learn about all of the free primary legal materials available online. We’ll cover Federal, State and Local legal resources available for free on the Internet as well as advanced searching techniques that will help you in “the real world.”

The workshop will be Thursday, April 18th at 12:00pm and again at 5:00pm in the Marshall Dennehey Room on the third floor of the library.

Contact Reference Librarian, Maggie Stewart Adams for more information at:  mmstewart@widener.edu

 

Join us at the Fall Faculty Technology Forum tomorrow

September 26th, 2011 No comments

Don’t miss the Fall Faculty Technology Forum tomorrow at 3:15 in the Marshall Dennehey Room.

The Educational Technology Team at Widener Law School invites you to attend the 2011 Delaware Fall Faculty Technology Forum. Please join us on Tuesday, September 27, at 3:15pm in the Marshall Dennehey Room for some short presentations and demonstrations of technology available to you at the law school.

Barbara Mindell will provide an overview of the technology available at the law school. Justin Holbrook will show us how he uses video clips and clickers to engage his students.

There will be some short poster sessions and demonstrations of:

Hope to see you there!

Free Online Legal Research Class Next Thursday

April 8th, 2011 No comments

libraryThis great engraving from Yale Law Library seems to be suggesting that back in the old days, you did legal research by standing around a law library waiting for a goddess to stick the magical hat of wisdom on your head. But that won’t cut it in the modern workplace. Be sure to attend the Widener Law Library’s Prepare to Practice workshop for legal research tips for the new attorney, summer associate, or law clerk.

Prepare to Practice: Free Online Legal Resources and Research Tips for New Associates, Summer Associates, Interns, Clerks, Law and Paralegal Students

Thursday, April 14th at 12:15pm and again at 5:15pm in the Library’s Special Collections Room.

The cost of subscription based legal information continues to rise as courts, firms and non-profits are looking for ways to cut costs. All legal professionals should be aware of the resources that are available for free online.

As part of the Legal Information Center’s National Library Week Celebration (April 10th – 16th), come learn about all of the free primary legal materials available online. We’ll cover Federal, State and Local legal resources available for free on the Internet as well as advanced searching techniques that will help you in “the real world.”

Note: This is an abridged version of the library’s popular CLE , Free and Low-Cost Online Legal Research. Presenters will be librarians Maggie Stewart Adams and Mary Alice Peeling. For more information contact Maggie Stewart Adams – mmstewart@widener.edu

Prepare to Practice: Free Online Legal Resources and Research Tips

March 22nd, 2011 No comments

Prepare to Practice: Free Online Legal Resources and Research Tips for New Associates, Summer Associates, Interns, Clerks, Law and Paralegal Students

Thursday, April 14th at 12:15pm and again at 5:15pm in the Library’s Special Collections Room

The cost of subscription based legal information continues to rise as courts, firms and non-profits are looking for ways to cut costs. All legal professionals should be aware of the resources that are available for free online.

As part of the Legal Information Center’s National Library Week Celebration (April 10th – 16th), come learn about all of the free primary legal materials available online. We’ll cover Federal, State and Local legal resources available for free on the Internet as well as advanced searching techniques that will help you in “the real world.”

Note: This is an abridged version of the library’s popular CLE , Free and Low-Cost Online Legal Research. Presenters will be librarians Maggie Stewart Adams and Mary Alice Peeling. For more information contact Maggie Stewart Adams – mmstewart@widener.edu

Library Tour and Orientation Make-Up

September 24th, 2009 No comments

First Year Students
Library Tour and Orientation Make-Up
If you missed your library orientation and tour scheduled through your Legal Methods class, there is a make-up session from 5:30 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 30th.  Please sign up at the reference desk.

Books for Sale

September 5th, 2006 Comments off

books icon The Library is offering the following art books for sale.  They are being withdrawn from the collection.  Contact information is at the end of the list.

Women in the Fine Arts, From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement, c1977 – $3.00


The Sense of Beauty, Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory with a foreword by Philip Blair Rice, c1955 – $0.50


The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response by David Freedberg,
c1989 – $4.50


The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History edited by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, c1992 – $3.00


Modern Culture and the Arts edited by James B. Hall and Barry Ulanov, c1967 – $3.00


Design in America: the Cranbrook vision, 1925-1950 by Robert Judson Clark, c1984 – $4.50


Bauhaus by Frank Whitford, c1984 – $0.50


Good old Modern; an intimate portrait of the Museum of Modern Art, by Russell Lynes,
c1973 – $4.50


Catalogue of a loan exhibition. Texts by Saneatsu Mushakoji, Ryuzaburo Umehara and Kazumasa Nakagawa, c1957 – $ 10.00


The art galleries of Britain and Ireland: a guide to their collections by Joan Abse, c1976 – $3.00


The Picture Gallery in the Kunsthistorischen Museum Vienna by Gunther Heinz [Translated from German by James Brockway, c1970 – $4.00


Art treasures of the Louvre by Rene Huyghe, c1960 – $0.50


Masters of world painting in the Soviet Union, Compiled by E. Marchenko, c1971 – $4.50


State Armoury in the Moscow Kremlin, c1969 – $4.50


Soviet art – $4.50


Fragments of some Hermitage paintings, 15th-16th centuries; Italy, Spain, France, Germany, The Netherlands by N. Nikuli, – $4.50


A guidebook to the Prado Museum including a commentary and general historical information by Bernardino De Pantorba, c1962 – $4.50


Looking at Art: A Vistor’s Guide to Museum Collections by Adelheid M. Gealt, c1983 – $.50


Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. An Exhibition Organized by the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, c1956 – $.50


If interested in these special offers, please contact Marlisa Beatty by phone at 302.477.2112 or by email at mmbeatty@mail.widener.edu
Please pick up and pay for the books within a week after your call in room 264.

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Specialized Training by a Reference Librarian

August 30th, 2005 Comments off

computers icon No need to wait for a class – get specialized training by a knowledgeable reference librarian when you need it!
Training can be arranged for one person, a small group or an entire class.
See the drop-down list on the Training, Please! Request Form for some possible training options.

This service is available ONLY to members of the Widener University School of Law community.

Questions? Stop by or call the reference desk (302-477-2114 in Delaware or contact us by using the “Ask a Librarian” comment form, or submit a question using the comments section in our Training, Please! Request Form.

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