Harrisburg Thanksgiving Weekend Hours
Posted by Bonnie Lerner on Nov 24, 2008
November 26 8am – 10 pm
November 27 CLOSED Enjoy some turkey
November 28 9am – 5 pm
November 29 9am – 5 pm
November 30 Noon – Midnight
Student Essay Contest
Posted by Bonnie Lerner on Nov 10, 2008
The American Association of Law Libraries announces the first annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Contest. Currently enrolled students attending graduate programs in library science, law, history, or related subjects are eligible to enter the competition. Papers may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives. Papers must be submitted by April 15, 2009. More information is available at: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/lhrb/Cohenessayprocapp.pdf.
New Search Engine
Posted by Bonnie Lerner on Oct 25, 2008
www.soovle.com is a new search engine that puts many different search sites on a single page. As you type in the search box you see suggested auto-complete entries from each site. The default search site is Google but you can easily change it. It searches Wikipedia, YouTube, Yahoo, Amazon and more. Try it, it’s very cool.
New from HeinOnline
Posted by Bonnie Lerner on Oct 14, 2008
HeinOnline has just announced its newest library, the National Moot Court Competition. This contains the briefs from the finalists of the competition held annually in New York. If you are participating in a Moot Court competition you will now be able to access the winning briefs from this competition. Or just check it out to see what winning briefs look like.
Blood Drive
Posted by Bonnie Lerner on Oct 8, 2008
There will be a Blood Drive on Monday October 13 from 11:30 am – 5:00 pm. This event is sponsored by BLSA/MLSA
New Look to BNA Databases
Posted by Bonnie Lerner on Oct 6, 2008
BNA has given all of their web databases a new look. Take a look at U.S. Law Week to try out the new format. Don’t forget you can sign up to have BNA newsletters on topics from antitrust law to health law to workplace law emailed to you. U.S Law Week is the most popular BNA email newsletter bringing you the latest news on all important legal topics and the U.S. Supreme Court.
See a complete list of all BNA databases and sign up for the newsletters on the Law Library’s webpage.
Longer Lending for Study Aids
Posted by Bonnie Lerner on Oct 6, 2008
You may have noticed the Hornbooks, Nutshells, Examples and Explanations and Sum & Substance Audio CDs now circulate for three days instead of three hours. We are hoping to have some duplicate copies that will continue to check out for three hours by exam time.
Political Fact-Checking
Posted by Bonnie Lerner on Sep 29, 2008
Sabrini Pacifice has an interesting timely link on her llrx site to Peggy Garvin’s article The Government Domain: Political Fact-Checking Websites
http://www.llrx.com/columns/govdomain38.htm
This might be a good place to research the candidates in the upcoming election.
Secondary Sources Training
Posted by Bonnie Lerner on Sep 5, 2008
The week beginning on Monday September 8 will be focused on Secondary Sources. These can be Legal Encyclopedias, Law Reviews, treatises, ALR Restatements and more. Join Westlaw and Lexis for some important training. Classes are not just for first year students.
Lexis will be offering training in the wireless lab on Secondary Sources on September 8 at 11:30, Noon and 5:15. Classes are 30 minutes long. Classes will be offered on September 9 at Noon and 12:30
Westlaw will be offering training in the wireless lab on Secondary Sources on September 10 at 2:30, 3:30 and 4:00. Again, the classes are 30 minutes long. Training will also be offered on September 11 at 4:30 and 5:15
Periodical Indexes
Posted by Bonnie Lerner on Aug 29, 2008
Two legal periodical indexes are LegalTrac and Index to Legal Periodicals. They are both available as one of the LIC databases. The advantage to using a periodical index is that a periodical index provides you with a great tool to help you find the most relevant articles quickly and easily, because they are professionally indexed. The disadvantage used to be that your results would be a citation and you would then have to locate the actual periodical article in print or through a different electronic database. This is no longer the case. When you use LegalTrac you can limit your results to articles that are in full text. With Index to Legal Periodicals , you can use “LinkSource” to link to the full text of articles. If a pdf is not available, LinkSource will take you to ILLiad (InterLibrary Loan) and fill in the form for you after you log in. So, instead of automatically jumping to Westlaw and Lexis, you might want to reconsider using a periodical index.