Need to stay up-to-date with news and events in China? The Law Library has a new electronic subscription called Current Digest of the Chinese Press. This is an excellent resource, especially for those who do not read Chinese, because it offers an unabridged and unfiltered English translation. The product is published by East View Press, and it offers a comprehensive view of China through relevant and timely stories. The Digest is a weekly that culls articles from a broad range of sources all aimed at a domestic audience. These articles are then carefully translated so as not to lose the actual sense and meaning of the original article. So, if you need reliable Chinese news, be sure to check out the Current Digest.
You gave the Law Library an outstanding return rate on the recent Student Survey, and we are pouring over the results now. For those of you who commented that you wish the library had a certain book or other items, we don’t want you to be bereft any longer. These were here all along:
New York Times and Wall St. Journal – How could we all live without these daily newspapers? The current issues are on the Circulation Desk counter and then available behind the desk for one month.
Israeli Human Rights Yearbook – Computers are so literal. You have to type in the Title correctly, or they will be contrary. The title is Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, and the Law Library has all volumes 1-41, from 1971-2011, on the new ground floor at K3236.3 .I87.
Model Penal Code Online –That’s available on your friends Westlaw (ULS-MPC) and Lexis (MODPEN).
Tribal Codes and Cases – Check out HeinOnline. It’s not just for journals any more! Go to the American Indian Law Collection. “With nearly 800 unique titles and more than 765,000 pages dedicated to American Indian Law, this collection includes an expansive archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence.”
Chinese Law Dictionary – Two good ones are in the reference collection in the Reading Room, alcove 3. 英汉-汉英双向法律词典 = An English-Chinese and Chinese-English Two-Way Law Dictionary at K52.C5 Y59x.7 and Ying Han fa lü ci dian = English-Chinese Dictionary of Law at K52.C5 Y566x.
Terry Pratchett and dogs – Olin Library has all of this author’s books and will send them to the Law Library for you to pick up. Just find the title you want in the online catalog and click the REQUESTS button at the top. Then select BOOK DELIVERY SYSTEM from the drop-down menu at the bottom; click OK. Select Law Circulation for where you will pick it up.
Be sure and check with a reference librarian if you aren’t finding what you need. We’ll be happy to help!
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
Dear Students:
To better accommodate your needs, and currently a pilot program, there is a new designated space in the library for eating. Students are welcome to bring food to the tables located by the third floor copy room at any time of the day. Please be considerate of other library users and housekeeping staff and clean up after yourself in order to maintain a pleasant environment for all. Receptacles are provided for waste and recyclables.
The no-food rule remains in effect for the remainder of the library, including the Reading Room, stacks, and carrel areas. Drinks in covered containers are allowed throughout the library.
We appreciate your assistance in keeping the library clean and pest-free. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
Need a break from casebooks, hornbooks, Restatements, and cite-checking? Give yourself a diversion with a bestseller. The Law Library has a new collection of popular reading materials just added to the Law Library’s Reserve area located behind the Circulation Desk. The books are available for a two week loan period with one renewal allowed. Sample titles include:
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable
The Litigators, by John Grisham
Too Big to Fail, by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson
Dear Students,
We are in the process of planning library services for the next school year, and would really appreciate your feedback on how we are currently performing. To collect your feedback, we have a brief survey for you. To access the survey, see the e-mail sent to you from Law Library Director, Femi Cadmus on Feb. 1, which contains a link.
As a token of thanks, we will enter the names of all who complete the survey into a drawing for an iPad 2. The survey will be available through Monday, February 13.
Many thanks,
The Law Library
The Law Library is pleased to announce its new exhibit of recently acquired Supreme Court bobbleheads. Created and distributed by The Green Bag, each wobbly Justice is fashioned in the interest of “scholarly artistry,” simply for the fun of it. The bobbleheads, together with explanatory notes, are available for viewing in the Law Library’s Reading Room display cases throughout the spring semester.
The Green Bag is a self-described “quarterly journal of short, readable, useful, and sometimes entertaining legal scholarship.” The Law Library thanks Ross E. Davies, Editor in Chief of The Green Bag, for his assistance in building the collection.
The Law Library invites you to look at our main display case inside the Reading Room. The case shows off, in photos, some of the many Rare Treasures of the Cornell Law Library. The display is presented in anticipation of three open houses at which you can view the actual materials. The Law Library will open the Dawson Rare Book Room at the East end of the Reading Room on February 10th, March 9th, and April 20th from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Note that some of these materials may be accessed in digital form here.
The Law Library has rich collections of rare materials. The Trials Collection is one of the most popular. It contains pamphlets that report trials involving murder, domestic disputes, and love triangles! The most famous of these trials are those of Lizzie Borden and Edward Rulloff. The Donovan Nuremberg Trial transcripts have attracted scholars from the United States and Europe.
A collection unique to the Cornell Law Library is the Laws of Liberia. The library has had requests from law firms, the United Nations, and the Liberian government for this material. Another treasure is The Charter of the Province of Pennsylvania and City of Philadelphia printed and sold by Benjamin Franklin in 1742. Additional materials of importance in Anglo-American law include Coke’s Institutes and Blackstone’s Commentaries.
On display in the Rare Book Room is the Scottsboro Train Replica used as an exhibit in the historic 1930’s trial of the “Scottsboro Boys”. It, among other materials, was a gift of the defendants’ attorney, Cornell Law alum Samuel S. Leibowitz, ’15. You can see a portion of this famous model train, an eighteenth-century Blackstone, and a seventeenth-century Littleton in our display case. We invite you to join us at one of our open houses this spring to see more of our riches.
This semester, there will be no Saturday reference. Instead, we are starting Sunday reference hours from 1 pm-6 pm. Two new part-time reference librarians will be on duty to answer questions and help with your research needs. Here is information about the new librarians:
Greg Ewing is the Assistant Director for Faculty & Outreach Services at the Barclay Law Library, Syracuse University College of Law. Prior to coming to Syracuse University in 2000, Greg spent a dozen years working in court and law firm libraries. Greg earned his B.A. in Latin from Carleton College, a Masters in Library Science from the U. of Maryland, and a J.D. from the Syracuse University College of Law. Greg is admitted to practice in New York State.
Emily Love received her B.A. and Masters in Library and Information Studies from McGill University. Emily has worked at the CNN political research library in Washington D.C., Concordia University in Montreal and was most recently an outreach librarian at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. At CNN, she conducted research on federal government web pages and on the 2005 nomination process of the new Supreme Court Chief Justice. At Illinois, Emily provided outreach and user education programs across campus.
The Cornell Law School Library has been named one of the worlds most beautiful by Flavorwire! Page through to entry number 18 and you’ll see the amazing Gould Reading Room. We join a list of elite and stunning spaces, including Trinity College Library in Dublin, Old Library, St. John’s College at Cambridge, and the George Peabody Library at Johns Hopkins.
Students, faculty, and staff of Cornell Law School are justly proud of our space and very grateful for the generosity and foresight of Eleanor and Milton S. Gould, for whom the Reading Room is named, and Myron Taylor, a major law school benefactor for whom the building is named.