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Need something portable to read during Fall break?

Sep 272012

Fall break is coming soon to Cornell Law School. If you’re traveling somewhere, have you thought about what you’ll read on the plane or listen to in the car? Cornell Law Library offers downloadable e-books and audiobooks for check-out via OverDrive to its students, faculty, and staff.

Some of the currently available audiobooks include An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage, discussing food’s influence over the course of history, and the comic novel Company, by Max Barry. In e-books we have fiction, including the thrillers 12.21 by Dustin Thomason and Headhunters by Norwegian author Jo Nesbo, among others, as well as nonfiction such as Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo (“vital reading for anyone serious about confronting poverty”–Timothy Ogden, Stanford Social Innovation Review).

Don’t see the title you want? Make a suggestion! Contact Nina Scholtz or Dan Blackaby with your suggestions, comments, and questions.

Cornell Law Library digitizes Trial Pamphlets Collection

Femi Cadmus No Responses »

Sep 122012

The Trial Pamphlets Collection is an exciting digitization project undertaken by the law library with funding of $155,700 from the Save America’s Treasures Grant Program. The digitized collection, drawn from our Special Collections, consists of pamphlets capturing a formative period in American history ranging in date from the late 1600s to the late 1800s. The pamphlets contained contemporary accounts of trials that involved prominent citizens or that dealt with especially controversial or lurid topics. We are indebted to Law Library Associate Director for Special Collections and Administrative Services Thomas Mills and the entire project staff for their remarkable contributions in making this project a reality. Additional content will be added in the upcoming months.

To visit the Trial Pamphlets Collection, go to: http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/t/trial/index.php.

CALI outage, Sunday, September 2

Matt Morrison No Responses »

Aug 302012

Students, please be aware that the CALI website will be down for scheduled maintenance on Sunday, September 2 from 8:00 am to Noon, Eastern Time. This maintenance will affect all components of the site. After 12, everything will return to full operation.

Free federal rules on your iPad or iPhone, today (August 22) only

Nina Scholtz No Responses »

Aug 222012

Today only, the rulebook™ app is offering free downloads of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Appellate Procedure and Bankruptcy Procedure and the U.S. Supreme Court Rules for your iPhone or iPad. Each set of rules normally costs $1.99. The app itself is free — just install the app and then download the rules. The app allows searching, highlighting, annotating, and bookmarking, and you can also keep multiple rules open at the same time.

Rulebook™ is also be the only place you can download the Bluebook to your iOS device. It’s $39.99 via the free app.

If you decide to use rulebook™, be sure to let the library know what you think of its interface and functionality. Thanks!

Regulation Room opens comments for home mortgage consumer protection

Nina Scholtz No Responses »

Aug 102012

The Cornell University pilot online participation initiative Regulation Room announced this morning it has opened a space for public comment on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau‘s proposed rules (regulations) about new consumer mortgage protections. These proposals are prompted by problems revealed during the mortgage crisis:

“The CFPB’s rules would help ensure that mortgage companies communicate effectively with borrowers, keep good account records, and avoid certain practices that harm consumers. The proposed rules focus on ensuring that all consumers receive accurate and timely information about the status of their home mortgages, and that borrowers who are in trouble are told about their options for receiving help.”

If you’re not yet familiar with Regulation Room, it’s designed and operated by the Cornell eRulemaking Initiative (CeRI) and hosted by the Legal Information Institute (LII). CeRI experiments with how Web 2.0 outreach and participation technologies can expand the kinds of voices that take part in federal agency policy-making. Regulation Room visitors will find the 800+ pages of CFPB explanation organized and condensed into 10 “issues posts,” written in plain language with links to a glossary and primary documents. The unique targeted commenting function allows users to link their comments to specific topics, and to have threaded discussion with others. Student moderators, trained in group facilitation techniques, mentor effective commenting and stimulate discussion. Regulation Room will send a detailed summary of the comments to CFPB. Particular target audiences for this discussion are individual consumers and small community banks and credit unions.

To learn more about Regulation Room and CeRI, read Cornell University Law School‘s Spotlight and Regulation Room’s About.

Indian librarian Priya Rai to speak at Cornell Law faculty workshop

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Jul 182012

The Law Library is pleased to welcome Priya Rai, Deputy Librarian in Charge at the Justice T.P.S. Chawla Library, National Law University in Delhi, to Cornell Law School.

Ms. Rai’s visit is made possible through the Bitner Research Fellows Fund. This endowment is designed to provide foreign law librarians with exposure to Cornell Law Library’s excellent resources and the expertise of its professional librarians, while learning about advanced legal research in a global context.

Ms. Rai will present at the faculty workshop on Wednesday, July 25, 12:00 Noon, in the Weiss Faculty Lounge. Entitled “Access to Legal Information in the Digital Age: A Comparative Study of Electronic Commercial Databases and Public Domain Resource in Law,” her presentation will include the results of her research involving law students and faculty from leading law schools in India. In addition to comparing open access and commercial legal databases, she will discuss initiatives to promote access to legal information to all Indian citizens.

Ms. Rai is the 2012 recipient of the FCIL-SIS Schaffer Grant. This grant provides financial assistance for a foreign law librarian to attend the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting, which she will do immediately prior to visiting Cornell.

New scanner in the Reading Room

Nina Scholtz 1 Response »

Jun 212012

We have a new scanner for library users installed in the Reading Room. The Bookeye 4 has a book cradle, which means you no longer have to place the book face down on the scanner, scan the page, pick up your book, turn the book, and place the book down again. All you have to do is turn the page and scan!

It will scan materials up to 24.4 by 16.9 inches (620 x 430 mm) in resolutions up to 600 by 400 dpi. You can choose to create JPEG, TIFF, or PDF files, and choose whether to e-mail the file or save it to your flash drive. And, of course, your scans can be black and white or color.

You can learn more about the scanner model here. For help using the scanner, check out the video tutorial available on the scanner’s screen, or ask at the Circulation Desk or Reference Desk.

New state-of-the-art scanner available

Femi Cadmus No Responses »

Feb 142012

Dear Students:

Be sure to check out the new scanner (next to the printer) in the reading room during your next trip to the library. Please try it out and let us know what you think.

Features of the BookEdge Plus KIC Scanner

KIC BookEdge Plus embodies state-of-the-art walk-up scanning solutions for students and faculty. Using a touch screen, scan in black and white or color and at resolutions up to 600dpi and output to a variety of formats including searchable PDF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, even MP3 audio files.

Scan/copy up to 24×17 inch bound or unbound material at twice the speed of a high-speed copier
Create full color electronic images and/or paper copies with a single touch
Review large electronic images at nearly full-size before printing copies
Electronically collate and print copies
C r e a t e searchable PDF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and editable text files
Create audio files from text for MP3 players, including iPods
Create, collate, and print reports with title pages and style templates
Go ‘green’. Promote minimal use of paper and ink

KIC has many ways to store, send and print information.

USB drive
E-mail, FTP
PDF and searchable PDF
Audio Podcast
Local or Network Printer

All the best,

Library Staff

Connecting on the 4th floor

Matt Morrison No Responses »

Nov 012011

Have you ever been on the 4th floor of the Law Library and wanted to access the wireless network with your smartphone? Well, your life just got better because wireless connectivity is now available on that floor. The 4th floor’s traditional laptop ban remains in effect as laptops can create bothersome noise. However, most other devices these days have silent keyboards. This makes iPhones, iPads, etc compatible with the quietly studious atmosphere of the 4th floor.

Connect away….

Electronic filing at New York courts

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Oct 102011

Electronic filing of court papers with public access to many of the documents is now the standard for federal courts through PACER. And now New York State Courts have an e-Filing System, NYSCEF. NYSCEF permits the filing of legal papers by electronic means with the County Clerk and the courts in certain case types in designated venues, as well as electronic service of papers in those cases. Tompkins County is not yet one of the venues; click here for the list of current counties eligible.

For free public access, any individual can search via the “search as guest” function on the Log In screen; no NYSCEF account is required. However, the judge can order the county clerk to seal particular documents or the entire case. “Sensitive” documents can be viewed by attorneys consented in that particular case and by the public at the county clerk computer.

A demonstration video designed to familiarize filers with its functionality is available here. How to get to the Courthouse is no longer the first problem new lawyers have to deal with. NYSCEF and PACER on the web take you there virtually!

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