Harrisburg grad to speak at the Democratic Convention
Posted by Bonnie Lerner on Aug 25, 2008
On Wednesday night August 27, one of the featured speakers at the Democratic National Convention will be Widener Harrisburg grad, Representative Patrick Murphy (D-PA). He and Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth will lead a tribute honoring those who give so much to secure our nation’s future – veterans, active duty military and their families.
Online Databases
Posted by Bonnie Lerner on Aug 21, 2008
The online research databases subscribed to by the Library are accessible from off campus with your law school ID card. Next time you are on campus you may want to sign up for automatic email updates from the BNA Research Databases.
Labor Day Weekend Hours
Posted by Bonnie Lerner on Aug 21, 2008
- August 29 8am- 8pm
- August 30 9am – 5pm
- August 31 Noon – 8pm
- September 1 9am – 5pm
Welcome
Posted by Bonnie Lerner on Aug 15, 2008
Welcome to all our new students who are busy with Intro to Law and Welcome back to all of our returning students next week. Hope that everyone had a great summer and is ready to hit the books.
July 4th Weekend Hours for Harrisburg Library
Posted by admin on Jun 24, 2008
July 3 8am-5pm
July 4 CLOSED
July 5 9am-5pm
July 6 Noon-8pm
TAKING THE HILL
Posted by admin on Feb 21, 2008
A new book, TAKING THE HILL: From Philly to Baghdad to the United States Congress, has just been published. The book was written by Congressman Patrick J. Murphy, who graduated from Widenerís Harrisburg campus in 1999. He went on to become a West Point professor, a JAG Corps attorney, and serve two deployments the first to Bosnia in 2002 and the second to Baghdad, Iraq in 2003-2004. Patrick is now representing Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District. Look for the book at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.
CRIMTORTS SYMPOSIUM
Posted by admin on Feb 12, 2008
The Widener Law Journal is proud to sponsor the first national symposium on the emerging legal concept of crimtorts. The symposium will feature nationally recognized scholars who will address the basic concept of crimtorts and a variety of practical issues. The symposium will be on February 25th from 8:30AM to 2:30PM in room A-180 on the Harrisburg Campus. If you would like more information you can download the crimtorts brochure.
HeinOnline now has Live Help
Posted by admin on Dec 1, 2007
HeinOnline, the Database that has Law Review articles, CFRs, the Federal Register, US Statutes at Large and many more things, has just announced a live support feature. Look for the Help button found in the upper right hand corned on many of the pages or look for the Live Help icon elsewhere. If they are unavailable, you can email them your questions.
Pennsylvania Bar Results
Posted by admin on Oct 5, 2007
Pennsylvania Bar results were made available on October 5 and Widener Harrisburg has an 89.5% pass rate for first time test takers. Congratulations to all of our new attorneys.
Busy Person’s Guide to Current Awareness
Posted by admin on Aug 22, 2007
Is there a law review or non-legal journal you would love to read but never remember to look for the new issues? What about a topic that you would like to keep up with?
There are a multitude of online services that are willing and eager to fill this need for Widener law school faculty and students. Westlaw and Lexis have alert services that provide regular updates for almost all of the information they cover. The Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) offers e-mail delivery of their many newsletters. Commerce Clearing House (CCH) offers newsletter sign-ups on its web sites dealing with banking, securities and business law, health and human resources law, and taxation.” Non-legal journals and major newspapers can be tapped for alerts using databases such as Ebscohost, ProQuest or JStor. These services are located on the database page on the Widener Law Library web site.
For help defining an alert or getting it set up, contact a Reference librarian. You will be glad you did.