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Three new titles commemorate one of the many student reading groups at the Law School. They’re on display in the reading room, along with titles from earlier book groups.
Students: contact us if you’re in a reading group and you’d like the Law Library to consider adding the group’s books to the collection.
Don’t forget to register if you plan to use your student accounts over the summer.
Questions? Contact your student representatives or your account representatives. Check home pages (not research pages) for contact information: lexisnexis.com/lawschool or lawschool.westlaw.com.
10 am – 2 pm
Updated room: Law Library Computer Lab
The half-day training will provide strategies for tackling new projects, a review of major research sources, a short session on using UCI Law databases while off-campus, and hands-on research practice. There will also be a lunchtime panel of lawyers and law librarians.
The inaugural issue of the UC Irvine Law Review includes an essay by Law Library director Beatrice Tice about (appropriately enough) academic law libraries. Dean Tice describes the relationship between law libraries and law schools, surveys the history of academic law libraries, and discusses the enduring role of the law library as “the heart of the law school.”
Articles in this first symposium issue are available online from UC Irvine Law Review. Congratulations to everyone who helped put this together!
Did you know you can frequently use and cite online versions of sources–even books–when you’re checking cites?
For example, you can use online versions that are “exact copies” of print sources under R. 18.2. Two places to check for Adobe® PDF versions of scanned books are:
Google Books. Google cannot display every book it has due to copyright issues, but there are millions of books available in full.
Hathi Trust. Hathi Trust is a community of research libraries, including the University of California consortium. Hathi Trust has many digital versions of books from Google, plus more titles from its member libraries. (For a quick intro, see this short article from Cornell University News.)
Once you find an online version of a source, you need to cite it in the correct format. Rule 18.2.1 offers general Internet citation principles to determine if you:
It’s now easier to find study aids in the law library. See Research > Study Aids.
New title: Ross Guberman, Point Made: How to Write like the Nation’s Top Advocates, (Oxford Univ. Press, 2011). 311 pages, paperback.
Reading Room – KF251 .G83 2011.
Check ANTPAC to see if it’s on the shelf.
Update 09/06/2011: The paperback version of this book was briefly reviewed by Professor Mark Wojcik on the Legal Writing Prof Blog:
It’s fascinating to see the examples [Guberman] has chosen and to see how patent lawyers, ACLU lawyers, Kenneth Starr and others use the same writing techniques to produce powerful advocacy. It’s a nicely done book that took quite a bit of work to assemble.
There’s an RSS feed for new law titles, including books in the Law Library and law titles at other UCI Libraries. Point your favorite feed reader to: http://antpac.lib.uci.edu/feeds/newlawlib.xml.
Professor Chris Tomlins’ book won the 2011 Bancroft prize in American history–and we have three copies in the Law Library. Bancroft prize winners “[D]emonstrate the powerful impact intensive research has when wound with eloquent interpretation and fluent prose.”
Christopher Tomlins, Freedom bound : law, labor, and civic identity in colonizing English America, 1580-1865, (Cambridge Univ. Press). 617 pages, hardcover.
Law Library – KF3319 .T66 2010.
Check ANTPAC to see if there’s a copy on the shelf.
(via The Faculty Lounge)
12:20 to 12:30 pm in the Law Library Computer Lab
Get a brief overview of legislative history research, a common summer project.
Highlighted resources include the ones that do the work for you, i.e. sources of compiled legislative histories like: