Library Updates

Course Links

Spring 2010 Course Pages

We have posted an updated page of links pointing to the latest online course materials provided by your professors. These online course sites may be on TWEN, a Law School web page, L&C Moodle, or a professor’s own site.

Course Pages is always located in the Students section of our web site.

TWEN Instructions

Need to sign up for a TWEN online course component? It’s easy. Just get out your Westlaw password and follow these instructions:

1. Login to TWEN using your Westlaw password
   – If the first time, you will have to Register your Westlaw password
2. Once in TWEN click on the Add a Course link in the "My Courses" navigation bar
   – Ask your professor for the course password if required
3. Once added, your course will always appear when logged into TWEN

For more info see this Student’s Guide to TWEN (pdf) or this TWEN tutorial

The Boley Law Library will be closed on Monday the 18th for Martin Luther King Day.

Spring Semester 2010 hours are now available on our library hours page.

The college campus wide emergency drill will be held on Wednesday, February 10, 2010, at 2:40 p.m. The drill will consist of both Earthquake and Evacuation Drills, in succession.

See The Source for more information.

Though final exams are complete and the school is on break, the Law Library will be open during much of the holiday and winter break with abbreviated hours and some closures.

Check out our Holiday and Winter Break Hours Dec. 18 – Jan. 9) before making the trek to Boley’s front door. Public and Patent & Trademark Library hours resume January 4.

Here’s wishing you a great break and a happy New Year, from all of us at the Boley Law Library!

Attorney Services, our document delivery service to attorneys, judges and law-related professionals, will be closed from December 21, 2009 through January 3, 2010.

Find out more about Boley Law Library’s Attorney Services.

With finals approaching, don’t forget that CALI lessons provide a free way to help you prepare for exams!

If you’re unfamiliar, CALI lessons are interactive, computer-based tutorials distributed by the non-profit Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI, www.cali.org).

We should mention that the CALI website has been a bit slow. CALI has been running upwards of 1,500 lessons per hour, and this level of use has stressed the system a bit. However, the folks at CALI say that system should be up and running at full speed again shortly. In the meantime, just keep trying.

CALI publishes over 700 CALI lessons in 33 different legal subject areas, listed at http://www.cali.org/lessons. All law students at CALI member schools, including ours, have free, unlimited access to CALI lessons. Law students around the country ran CALI lessons over 900,000 times last school year.

If you are registering a free account at cali.org for the first time, note that you must use our school’s authorization code to create a new account.

Our school’s authorization code is available via our L&C Law Student CALI Lessons page. Just click the ‘Get the Authorization Code’ link (then enter your L&C email username and password), or stop by the Boley Reference Desk and ask for the code there.

All students also received a CALI DVD at the beginning of the semester. Remember, however, that lessons added or updated since the beginning of the school year are only available at cali.org.

Good luck with finals!

11/30 Update

The boil water notice has been removed, with the Portland Water Bureau declaring that tap water has been tested safe to drink.

See the Drinking Water Advisory and the Portland Water Bureau site for more information.

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11/28

Campus Safety and the Portland Water Bureau are warning that there is possible contamination of the water at Lewis & Clark College and Law School. Be sure to boil water before use.

Follows is the full alert from the Portland Water Bureau. Use this link for more information:

PORTLAND WATER BUREAU CUSTOMERS WEST OF THE WILLAMETTE RIVER AND CUSTOMERS OF BURLINGTON, PALATINE HILL AND VALLEY VIEW WATER DISTRICTS SHOULD BOIL WATER BEFORE USING

Routine water quality samples for total coliforms, including E. coli, were confirmed for fecal contamination in a Washington Park open reservoir on November 28, 2009. Fecal coliforms and E. coli are bacteria whose presence indicates that the water may be contaminated with human or animal wastes. Microbes in these waters can cause short-term effects, such as diarrhea, cramps, nausea, headaches, or other symptoms. They may pose a special health risk for infants, young children, some of the elderly, and people with severely compromised immune systems.

These symptoms are not only caused by organisms in drinking water. If you experience any of these symptoms and they persist, you may want to seek medical advice. People at increased risk should seek advice about drinking water from their health care providers.

What Should I do? What does this mean to me?

DO NOT DRINK THE WATER WITHOUT BOILING IT FIRST OR USE BOTTLE WATER. Boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes, and food preparation until further notice. Bring all water to a rolling boil for one minute, and let it cool before using, or use bottled water. Boiling kills bacteria and other organisms in the water.

What is being done?

The Portland Water Bureau has taken the reservoir out of service. We will inform you when tests show no bacteria and you no longer need to boil your water. We anticipate resolving the problem within 24 hours.

For more information, please contact Portland Water Bureau at 503-823-7770 or 1120 SW 5th Ave., Portland, OR, 97204. General guidelines on ways to lessen the risk of infection by microbes are available from the EPA Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791.

Please share this information with all the other people who drink this water, especially those who may not have received this notice directly (for example, people in apartments, nursing homes, schools, and businesses). You can do this by posting this notice in a public place or distributing copies by hand or mail.

For more information: http://www.portlandonline.com/water/index.cfm?c=51580

Advertencia! Empezando desde hoy

Todas las personas que beben agua del sistema de agua de la Ciudad de Portland oeste del Rio Willamette: HIERVAN EL AGUA POTABLE ANTES DE USARLA.

Este es un aviso importante acerca del agua potable que afecta su salud. Por favor llame al 503-823-7770 para obtener informacion en espanol.

This notice is being sent to you by Portland Water Bureau. State Water System ID#: OR4100657.

Date distributed: November 28, 2009.

Sorry folks, but we have had reports of jackets taken from both the Boley and Watzek libraries. Campus security is well aware of the problem and doing what they can, but unattended coats are easy to grab without drawing much suspicion.

Remember, the library, the Law School campus, and Lewis & Clark College as a whole are open to the public most hours of the day. While campus security works to limit the presence of bad-doers on campus, we encourage you to take a few steps to keep your valuables safe:

• Don’t leave anything valuable unattended. Even if leaving your desk for a few minutes grab your purse, coat and backpack, or at the very least leave them with a friend
• Do not leave your wallet or keys or phone in your jacket pocket.
• If you use a laptop, be sure to lock it to your desk at all times. We’ve noted a number of laptops left unattended in study cubicles in the reading room and in Wood Hall. Inexpensive cables are available at the L&C Computer Showroom on the College campus.

We have a wonderful campus, but it is open to the public and it appears that opportunistic thieves have discovered our libraries. Items left unattended for even short periods of time are easy to grab. Use these basic rules – lock your computer with a cable, keep your wallet and keys on you, take your jacket when you leave your desk – and you can deny the criminal element the opportunity to ruin your day.

Westlaw is instituting new password security requiring more-secure usernames and password for all. This will disable the use of any old Westlaw Passwords (e.g. 1384536VMJB), and folks already with OnePass usernames and passwords will need to update them to meet the new requirements.

Though most have until January 31, 2010 to make the password changeover, those who use the Westlaw “Remember Me” feature to log in must make these changes immediately. The first time you try to log in all your remembered information will be turned off, and you will get an e-mail explaining the new requirements and how to get signed back in.

Follow these steps to return your Westlaw access, or to ensure that your access is not interrupted.

1. Go to the Academic Registration – Update Account page

2. Enter your OnePass Username and Password

• If you have never created a Username/Password enter your 11-character password in the “Westlaw Password” box
• Not sure if you’ve ever created one? Enter your email address at the Manage OnePass Account page
• If you have forgotten your OnePass Username and/or Password (or if it asks for OnePass info even after entering your old Westlaw Password):
  – Click the “Forgot your Username and Password” link
  – Follow instructions to receive your username and/or password via
  email
  – Now enter them both in the OnePass Username and Password boxes

3. You should now be at the “Academic Westlaw Registration – Update account” page

• Update or enter a new Username, one which is at least 8 characters and contains at least 2 of the following:
  – Uppercase letters
  – Lowercase letters
  – Numbers
  – Any of these symbols: .(period) @(at sign) -(dash) _(underscore)
  Tip: User your email address – unique and satisfies these rules
• Update or enter a new Password, one which is at least 8 characters and contains at least 3 of the following:
  – Uppercase letters
  – Lowercase letters
  – Numbers
  – Any of these symbols: .(period) @(at sign) -(dash) _(underscore)

From now on you will only be able to access Westlaw and TWEN using your new OnePass Username and Password.

Westlaw provides this page with more information and demos on the new OnePass security requirements.

For help and questions you can contact Rob Truman, Assistant Director for Electronic Information Services, at rtruman@lclark.edu or 503-768-6780. You can also always contact Westlaw directly at 1-800-WESTLAW (say “OnePass” when prompted), our Account Manager Alex Scribner at alexander.scribner@thomsonreuters.com, or view the OnePass Customer Support Page.

The Boley Law Library will be open during the Thanksgiving holiday with altered opening and closing hours.

Lewis & Clark Law School and College students, faculty, staff and the legal community

General public and Patent and Trademark Depository Library

Check all of our Law Library Hours, or see when the Watzek Library will be open.

Have a great Thanksgiving holiday.