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Tracking Current Federal Legislation and Regulations: A Guide to Resources (pdf)

ZiefBrief says it all:

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) just released a very useful guide, “Tracking Current Federal Legislation and Regulations: A Guide to Resources.”  The document covers government and commercial resources that are available to researchers who wish to obtain information about current federal legislation or regulations.  The CRS guide includes tips on how to find this information on Westlaw and LexisNexis Congressional — both of these databases are available to [L&C Law] students and faculty.

Source: ZiefBrief

The New York Times is now offering complimentary subscriptions to TimesSelect to students and faculty of institutions of higher learning. All you need is a valid college or university email address ending with “.edu”. You know, something like yournamehere@lclark.edu.

To sign up just bring your .edu email address to the TimesSelect Complimentary University Subscription page. Enter your email address, follow the confirmation link they’ll send you, and c’est voila – access to the formerly paying-customers-only section of the New York Times website.

TimesSelect content includes:

• Op-Ed Columnists: From Brooks to Rich
• News Columnists: From Business, New York/Region, Sports and The International Herald Tribune
• TimesSelect Newsletters
• Archives: Access up to 100 articles each month from the NY Times’ 1851 – Present archive

Source: Advertising Age

ACRL College Library Web Site of the Month

Congratulations to our sister library, Lewis & Clark College’s Aubrey R. Watzek Library, on being named the ACRL College Library Web Site of the Month for March 2007.

March finds CLS heading towards the West coast state nicknamed the Beaver State, home of Mt. Hood and Crater Lake – Oregon. Once in Portland you’ll find The Aubrey R. Watzek Library on the campus of Lewis & Clark College which was founded as The Albany Collegiate Institute in 1867.

Director Jim Kopp oversees the Library and a website which provides excellent access to its services and collections. The welcoming photographs centrally positioned on the Library’s homepage are flanked by two columns of links to information, Special Collections, the catalog and a Library News section that contains a recently enhanced (February 2007) listing of new acquisitions.

Most notable digital features on Watzek’s website include:

• an impressive Archives – high-quality digital resources of specialized collections including the most extensive collection of printed materials known to exist on the Lewis and Clark Expedition;
• the Visual Resources Collection – a teaching resource collection of several thousand digital images;
• online tutorials – well-designed and ranging from 1-2 minutes that cover renewing materials online, requesting items, performing journal searches and importing citations.

Director Kopp and the Watzek Library staff should be commended for the use of cutting edge technology – a noteworthy fact recognized on the College’s website.

Other features of the Watzek website deserving mention include:

• New additions sorted by subject, language and format, complete with book cover images and RSS feeds;
• New and improved course reserves;
• Innovative pages for searching and browsing the library’s collections of CDs and Records and Videos and DVDs;
• Excellent research guides;
• And, of course, the annual Watzek Rocks Concert

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Even with the extra couple of days to file your Federal Income Tax forms (thanks Emancipation Day!), taxes must be done.

Here’s where you can find your favorite forms:

Internal Revenue Service
:: Forms and Publications

Oregon Department of Revenue
:: Tax Forms and Instructions

Links to All State Tax Forms

Reproducible copies of federal tax forms and instructions
:: On Reserve in Boley Law Library

IntLawGrrls

IntLawGrrls is a new-since-February legal blog authored by a number of women international law legal experts that seeks to “strengthen our voices as we continue to teach and work in international law, policy, practice.”

In our brief but fruitful gestation, IntLawGrrls gave voice to all kinds of issues: counterterrorism and corruption, a tempest in tennis, gay rights and Guinean unrest. We promise more of the same, and more of what is different, as our new arrival matures.

We embrace names of foremothers in the hope they will inspire crisp yet care-full commentary, delivered at times with a dash of sass. As we grow you’ll need to click the “voices” at right to find out who we are. We are happy today to claim IntLawGrrls’ parentage so far:

Lakshmi Bai: Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Beasley School of Law at Temple University

Vera Brittain: Professor Elizabeth Lutes Hillman, Rutgers School of Law-Camden

Amelia Earhart: Professor Elena A. Baylis, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Mata Hari: Professor Hari Osofsky, University of Oregon School of Law

Anna Koransky: Naomi Norberg, PhD candidate in comparative law, Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Nanny of the Windward Maroons: Professor Karen E. Bravo, Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis

Grace O’Malley: Professor Diane Marie Amann, University of California, Davis, School of Law

Hélène Ruiz Fabri, Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), President of the European Society of International Law

We look forward to hearing from you as we nurture this new arrival.

[from It's an IntLawGrrl!]

Source: BarclayBlog

NYU Law’s GlobalLex, publisher of guides and articles to international and foreign law research and previously featured on BoleyBlogs! here, has released the following new research guides:

• Research Guide on TRIPS and Compulsory Licensing: Access to Innovative Pharmaceuticals for Least Developed Countries by Do Hyung Kim
• Guide to Legal Research in Honduras by José Miguel Álvarez and Jessica Ramos
• Researching Icelandic Law by Rán Tryggvadóttir and Thordis Ingadóttir
• A Guide to the Singapore Legal System and Legal Research by Tzi Yong Sam Sim
• The Law in Zimbabwe by Otto Saki and Tatenda Chiware
• UPDATE: Guide to Caribbean Law Research by Yemisi Dina

Source: Law Librarian Blog

The February 19, 2007 issue of Cornell Law Library’s InSITE, previously covered by BoleyBlogs! here, contains reviews of these legal sites:

• Breastfeeding and the Law
• IWGIA: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
• Juriscom.net
• Legal Research Engine (see also our BoleyBlogs! coverage, Find Legal Research Guides Fast)
• National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women

Read the full reviews and links to subscription info at the Law Librarian Blog.

Source: Law Librarian Blog