Harrisburg Campus Library Blogs

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May 19:  9am to 5pm

May 20:  CLOSED

May 21 – 25:  8am to 8pm

May 26 – 28:  CLOSED

The nation’s most comprehensive set of laws, the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), contains rules that impact nearly all areas of American business, and the LII”s new electronic edition offers users an easier path to finding and understanding the regulations with which they need to comply.

This new online edition of the CFR is the result of an unprecedented two-year collaboration between the Government Printing Office (GPO), the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School (LII), and the Cornell Law Library.

The project implemented features that have been often requested by government regulators, corporate counsel, and law librarians. “The LII’s edition of the CFR has the same search and navigation features that have made its edition of the United States Code the leading free, online source for Federal statutes for over a decade,” said Thomas R. Bruce, Director of the LII. “We’ve added linked cross-references both within the CFR and to relevant parts of the United States Code, something no other freely-available collection has. This will help users find other government regulations that impact them that they may not have found before.”

The CFR is extremely complex, and yet citizens are expected to adhere to all of its regulations. The results of this partnership ensure that the latest information is always available, easier to use and understand, and entirely free of charge.

“This open-government project demonstrates that partnerships between government and nonprofit groups can do more for the American public than either could accomplish on their own,” Bruce said.

Cornell Law Librarian Femi Cadmus agrees. “Partnerships such as these are important because they expand and enrich the level of research support that innovative libraries such as the Cornell Law Library can provide to an extensive network of users both nationally and globally.”

In addition to its improved navigation, the LII CFR also contains links to relevant statutory authority and to rulemaking dockets for pending regulations that may affect the section the user is viewing. The LII edition is updated concurrently with updates to the GPO’s Federal Digital System data on which it is based, with links from each page to the Office of the Federal Register’s e-CFR edition for more recent updates.

The LII is actively experimenting with new features based on the capabilities of the Semantic Web. For example, users can now search Title 21 using brand names for drugs (such as Tylenol), and receive the generic name for the drug (acetaminophen) as a suggested term. Other near-term enhancements will include searches by United Nations product code, the identification and linking of relevant agency guidance information for each Part and Section, and a wide variety of Linked Data offerings.

We wish to congratulate graduating student Ashley Oakey, who published an article in this month’s American Bankruptcy Institute Journal. The ABI Journal is a magazine that is sent to 13,000 bankruptcy professionals each month, and several times a year it includes one student article in its Student Gallery column. In her article, A Cautionary Tale for Municipalities Considering Chapter 9, Ashley discusses one of the past year’s most talked-about bankruptcy cases – In re City of Harrisburg.

Congratulations Ashley!

The Associate as Rainmaker: Building Your Business Brain is a new book available in the library that gives valuable advise on how associate attorneys can better generate business.

A review is available from the 3 Geeks and a Law Blog at:

http://www.geeklawblog.com/2012/05/attorney-biz-dev-book-review-associate.html

This book can be located in the library HERE

Mobileappsforlaw.com announces a new free RSS providing information on the latest mobile apps that have been released for legal research and legal utilities. The feed is accessible by clicking the orange RSS link on the left side of the page at www.mobileappsforlaw.com and can be subscribed to through any news reader.

The RSS feed is free to anyone, and gives information on each app that is newly added to our web database, the only comprehensive database of mobile apps for lawyers, which includes 900 mobile apps for legal research and legal utility for all types of mobile devices.  By clicking on the app title, subscribers can view the complete entry for this app that is in the database.  Please contact arlene.eis@infosourcespub.com for more information about the RSS and the mobileappsforlaw.com database.

Brought to you by Infosources Publishing, pioneers in the field of reference publishing for law since 1981, Mobile Apps for Law is the only database devoted to mobile apps for lawyers.

More than one million pages of content related to the exchange of
goods and services between the United States and other
nations, as well as the history of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930

HeinOnline’s newest library: U.S. International Trade Library: A Current and Historical Archive coming to HeinOnline May 1, 2012! This new collection will bring together more than one million pages’ worth of content, including USITC Publications Archive, Legislative Histories, CFR & U.S. Code Title 15: Commerce and Foreign Trade, Notable Publications, Scholarly Articles, and much more!

PLUS, they will be adding a complete history of Section 337 Investigations, which will be available exclusively in HeinOnline!

Presented in HeinOnline’s research platform, the functionality of this collection will allow you to easily browse and search between these different sections of the U.S. International Trade library all in one place!

You may access HeinOnline here.

SBA Executive Board 2012/2013

Kristin Potter, President

Jamilah Espinosa, VP Academic

Jessica Boyles, VP Social

Ami Patel, Treasurer

Danielle Strojnik, Secretary

Anamari Jimenez, Technology Secretary

Roma Patel, ABA Representative

Rebekka Vallandingham, PBA Representative

April 23 – May 14

8:00 AM to 2:00 AM   Every day

8:00 AM to 10:00 PM   May 14

An IFLP Quick Reference Guide, which outlines the various options available for navigating this collection, including browsing and searching, reading catalog records, etc., has recently been created by HeinOnline.

This guide can be found on the Training Guides page on the HeinOnline homepage, or you may access the quick reference guide by clicking here.

The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals can be found here.

The following legislative histories have been added to HeinOnline’s U.S. Federal Legislative Histories Library.

• Civil Service Retirement Act. Includes Abstracts of Decisions, Opinions, Regulations, and Comments Relating to the Acts of May 22, 1920, July 3, 1926 and May 29, 1930, and Amendments Thereto through March 7, 1942, Inclusive
• Compilation of Federal Education Laws, as Amended through June 30, 1977: Prepared for the Use of the House Committee on Education and Labor and the Senate Committee on Human Resources
• Federal Farm Loan Act with Amendments and Farm Mortgage and Farm Credit Acts
• Federal Trade Commission Improvements Act of 1980. P.L. 96-252: 94 Stat. 374: May 28, 1980
• Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act Amendments of 1994: A Legislative History: Public Law 103-218, 108 Stat. 50 (1994)

The U.S. Federal Legislative Histories Library can be found here.