May 14th, 2012
Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII) has collaborated with the Government Printing Office and the Cornell Law Library to make the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) available through LII. With the CFR and the addition of the USCprelim, LII now provides freely available cross-referenced searching for researchers looking for Federal laws and regulations.
If you find a citation to the U.S. Code while searching within the CFR, just click on the link and you will automatically be directed to the pertinent text of the U.S. Code, which is also available through LII.
May 11th, 2012
We are pleased to note that our fellows librarians in the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries have recognized Lewis and Clark Law School’s own Aliza Kaplan for writing the Outstanding Article of 2012.
Read the winning article, Think [and Practice] Like a Lawyer: Legal Research for the New Millennials (Kaplan & Darvil, 8 Leg. Comm. & Rhetoric 153 (2011)).
Congratulations Professor Kaplan!
May 9th, 2012
Have suggestions, comments and/or complaints about the layout of the Boley Law Library? Now’s your chance to join the conversation about improving Boley.
We welcome your opinions. Need more group study space? Do you like that Wood Hall is mostly a quiet study area? Tell us! Join the conversation on Facebook. Not on Facebook? Email your comments to lawlib@lclark.edu.
May 8th, 2012
Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII) has collaborated with the U.S. House of Representatives’ Office of the Law Revision Counsel to make the USCprelim available on the LII U.S. Code site.
Normally, the official version of the U.S. Code is not released soon enough to be in sync with current legislation, but with USCprelim, researchers can access the most current information available. The USCprelim updates titles of the U.S. Code on the website throughout the year as laws affecting those titles are enacted, rather than waiting until the end of the congressional session.
Researchers should verify the text of USCprelim against the printed slip laws available from the Government Printing Office, the laws as shown on THOMAS, and the final version of the U.S. Code when it becomes available.
May 7th, 2012
The Aubrey R. Watzek Library at Lewis & Clark College has announced that Mark Dahl has been appointed Director. Congrats to Mark and all of our friends at Watzek.
Full announcement: New Watzek Director Named
April 27th, 2012
Researching or taking classes this summer? Lexis and Westlaw have special summer access provisions, and we have all the details at our summer access spotlight.
Be sure to check the rules of summer access before you are up against a deadline:
- Westlaw requires registration
- Lexis on the other hand is allowing folks to use the new and improved Lexis Advance, no registration required
- And if neither works for you, sign up now for VersusLaw
See our spotlight for all the details.
April 25th, 2012
Earlier this week an email went out to all our library users who owe money. We are giving all of the money from fines to Raphael House, a multi-faceted domestic violence agency dedicated to ending intimate partner violence for good.
Raphael House serves individuals and families of all backgrounds, cultures, ages, and sexual orientations. The fines will be collected for Raphael House through May 15, 2012.
If your fines exceed $35.00, you may pay with a Fred Meyer gift card. Otherwise, the library accepts cash or checks. Bring gift cards or money to the circulation desk of the law library.
Not sure of the need? Check your library record online for a complete history of your fines.
Please feel free to email docdel@lclark.edu with any questions about your fines or our donation program.
April 25th, 2012
Don’t forget that CALI lessons provide a great, free way to help you prepare for exams. Plus, CALI Lessons now work on mobile devices like iPads and iPhones.
If you’re unfamiliar, CALI lessons are interactive, computer-based tutorials written by law professors and librarians, and distributed by the non-profit Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI, www.cali.org).
CALI now provides over 800 CALI lessons in over 40 different legal subject areas, listed at http://www.cali.org/lesson. 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.
Not sure which to use? Check out these Seven Methods for Choosing a CALI Lesson
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.
If you are using a CALI DVD remember that lessons added or updated since the beginning of the school year are only available at cali.org.
Good luck with finals!
April 20th, 2012
The Law Library’s extended exam hours during finals have begun.
From the 17th through May 3rd the Boley Law Library will be open 7am until Midnight every day. On Friday, May 4th the library will be open 7am to 10pm.
Check our extended exam law library hours. You can also see when the Watzek Library will be open.
Library hours for the general public will remain on the general semester schedule.
Good luck on exams!
April 10th, 2012
HeinOnline’s State Attorney General Reports & Opinions database has been updated to include coverage dating back to inception for California, New York, Washington, and Wyoming and all other states (as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands) include coverage from at least 1980 to the present.
Search by full text or opinion number or browse and search by state and year.
The Law Library also provides access to State Attorney General Reports & Opinions on microfiche. Until the online database has been completed for each state, you may still need to consult the microfiche. But if you are looking for a report or opinion after 1980, you should be able to locate it on HeinOnline.
