InfoBrief: Possible Removal of Westlaw Faculty Printer

Greetings all,

We have been notified by our Westlaw rep, Mike Winn, that faculty print jobs using the dedicated Westlaw printer are significantly down.  Over the last few years, usage has dropped considerably.  Westlaw is looking to remove low use/no use printers and the Cornell faculty printer is now on that list. 

Do you, Cornell law faculty, still want this printer available to you?  If there is still a need, Mike reports that he can leave it installed for another semester as a trial period.  Please let me or your library liaison know.

Thanks for your help with this.

Cheers,
Julie

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InfoBrief: Holiday Shopping Edition

Greetings all,

Reports are in that Black Friday is coming early this year and some retailers are already dropping prices.  To help with your gift selections, here are the latest shopping tips from Consumer Reports. 

Wishing everyone a lovely Thanksgiving with friends and families. 

Best,
Julie

Please reply to this email if you experience any troubles with the links.

Where to buy:

Buying Clothes Online
Buying Electronics

What to buy:

Audio Equipment
Blu-Ray and DVD Players
Camcorders
Computers
Digital Cameras
Digital Picture Frames
GPS Navigators
LCD and Plasma TVs
Luxury SUVs
Printers
Wine

How to send:

Shipping (scroll down to read article after opening pdf)

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InfoBrief: New Law Books Update

Greetings all,

This is a friendly reminder that new books at the law library, and law related books at other Cornell University libraries, are posted to our web site twice a month.  Peruse the list to keep current on new scholarship in your subject specialty. You can also sign up to receive an RSS feed notice whenever the page is updated.  If you need assistance with or have questions about RSS feeds, please contact your library liaison.

This month, for some light holiday reading, you might be interested in Drowning in the Desert: A JAG's Search for Justice in Iraq, by Vivian H. Gembara. Read more about it from the author's site, and on Amazon. 

Request this, or any book, from your library liaison.



Cheers,
Julie

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InfoBrief: LIFE images available on Google

Greetings all,

This may or may not help you with your scholarship and teaching, but is certainly interesting.  Google and TIME have teamed up to make historic TIME photographs available through Google Image Search.  They are searchable (of course), and browsable by decade (1860s - 1970s), people, places, events, sports, and culture. 

Here's the link: http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Cheers,
Julie

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InfoBrief: Plum Book Supplement

As a follow-up to yesterday, The New York Times reports today on details for would be applicants to Obama's administration.  Click here for a PDF of the seven page, sixty-three question job application that covers publications, blog posts, speeches, testimony, and essentially any findable record of what you've said in any format for the duration of your adult life. 

It ends with a nice catch-all safety net:

Please provide any other information, including information about other members of your family, that could suggest a conflict of interest or be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family, or the President-Elect.

Indeed.  Hat tip to Alfred Brophy.

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InfoBrief: US Plum Book Released

The Plum Book is ready!  The 2008 edition of the United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions, commonly known as the Plum Book, is now available from the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).  It is being eagerly devoured by attorneys, academics, and others who would like a job in the new administration.
 
Prepared after each presidential election, the Plum Book provides comprehensive information on thousands of federal civil service leadership and support positions in the legislative and executive branches of the federal government – jobs that may be subject to noncompetitive appointment, nationwide.
 
Just out of interest, click here to see the positions and salaries for the Department of Justice positions.
 
This information is provided by GPO. For additional information, feel free to contact Pat Court, our government documents specialist, or your librarian liaison.  And yes, the cover of the actual book is plum colored.

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Julie M. Jones, JD, MLIS
Research Attorney and Lecturer in Law
Cornell Law Library
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Ithaca, New York  14853
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InfoBrief: BNA Updates

Greetings all,

BNA is updating and improving their user interface, effective this week.  A brochure detailing the changes has been placed in each of your boxes. 

BNA is an excellent resource for quality current awareness updates, with many publications to choose from.  View a complete list of available titles arranged by subject here, and an alphabetical list of titles here.  Many provide automatic email updates. 

For assistance setting up email updates, or to answer any questions, please feel free to contact your library liaison. 

Cheers,
Julie

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Head of Information Services and Lecturer in Law
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InfoBrief: Bloomberg Training

Dear Faculty,

Our Bloomberg Representative, Ken Sanchez, is at the law school tomorrow, July 2.  He is available to provide a personal demo of the system to any who are interested.  As we've previously announced, Bloomberg has rolled out a new product called Bloomberg Law or "B-Law."  See the B-Law web page here: http://about.bloomberg.com/professional/law.html

One of the best features of B-Law is the ability to obtain court dockets and filings with relative ease.  Of course, the full package of news and business resources, which are included with B-Law, are fantastic.

Sessions with the rep run from 30-60 minutes.  If you would like to schedule one, let Matt Morrison know , or contact your liaison.

Cheers,
Julie

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InfoBrief: 2008 Law Review Submission Policies

Greetings all,

Before the substance of this email, we wanted to let everyone know that most of our email accounts in the library are down and have been down since Sunday, with no indication from CIT when they will be up again.  We can send email, but not receive it.  We're working on creating a work-around to access our email.  In the meantime, please call us if you need any assistance.

Nancy Levitt and Allen Rostron of UMKC have recently posted on SSRN their white paper, Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals.  Available here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1019029

Abstract:     

This document contains information about submitting articles to law reviews and journals, including the methods for submitting an article, any special formatting requirements, how to contact them to request an expedited review, and how to contact them to withdraw an article from consideration. It covers about 188 law reviews.

Michael H. Hoffheimer of U Miss also produces a Directory of Law Reviews.  While current only through 2005, it does include charts for specialty journals not covered in Levitt & Rostron's article.  Available here: http://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/prodev/lawreview/default.asp

Of course, if you need journal ranking information, go to the Washington & Lee web site: http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx

We hope this helps with your summer scholarship.  Please feel free to contact your library liaison with any research questions or to train your research assistant for any particular project. 

Cheers,
Julie

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InfoBrief: Open Access at Harvard Law School

Greetings everyone,

Many of you will probably be familiar with Harvard Law School's announcement yesterday regarding their unanimous vote to provide open access to all their scholarly articles.  From the press release:

In a move that will disseminate faculty research and scholarship as broadly as possible, the Harvard Law School faculty unanimously voted last week to make each faculty member�s scholarly articles available online for free, making HLS the first law school to commit to open access [emphasis added].

This statement is not quite correct.  Duke has made its journals freely available on the web since 1997 and has hosted an open access repository of its faculty's school since December 2005.  There are likely other law schools that have open access policies as well.  Which begs the question:  Does Cornell Law School need an open access commitment?

Cheers,
Julie

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