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Volume 4, Issue 1
Fall 2007 IN THIS ISSUE
Welcome – Director Judith Anspach Tips on Using the Library Fall Hours in the Library Places to eat nearby… August/September Display Web Sites of Interest Personal Safety – Police Escort Did You Know – Google isn’t
the Only Search Engine? |
Welcome On behalf of the entire staff, it is my pleasure to welcome all
new and returning students to the Law Library. We hope you will find that the
Library provides you with a comfortable setting for legal research and study.
All staff members work very hard to provide you with excellent library support
and services. We want to make your law school experience as rewarding as
possible and are always happy to help you with your legal research needs and
to provide assistance in accessing and using materials and information.
Please do not hesitate to ask for assistance, as helping you is what we enjoy
doing the most. When you are learning
how to conduct legal research, we expect to see you at the Reference Desk
often. Please remember that librarians don’t think there is any such thing as
a dumb question, unless it is the question you didn’t ask. For
detailed information about policies, location of materials, electronic
database services, etc., please see the Law Library web page at http://indylaw.indiana.edu/library/library.htm To
help us better meet your needs, we encourage your comments and suggestions.
If you have any problems with Library services or have suggestions for
improvement, I am always happy to speak with you either
in my office in the library, by phone at 274-3411, or via e-mail at juanspac@iupui.edu.
Judith Anspach |
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Tips on
Using the Library Not
sure where to find what you need? Take
a virtual tour of the law library… http://www.iulaw.indy.indiana.edu/
library/tour/floor1.html Copiers
& Printing Library copiers no longer take cash. Add
value to your IUPUI JagTag or purchase a copycard for $1.00 and add value to
it at the JagTag Station inside the Reserve Area, near the Circulation Desk. The
Copiers are located on the First and Second Floors of the library, near the
elevators. Printing is free for students using the Westlaw and Lexis printers
in the Computer Labs. |
LIBRARY HOURS – FALL 2007 Regular Schedule Monday
– Friday 8 am – 11 pm Saturday 9 am – 9 pm Sunday 11 am – 11 pm Labor Day Saturday,
September 1 9 am
– 5 pm Sunday,
September 2 11
am – 11 pm Monday,
September 3 CLOSED Fall Recess Saturday,
October 13 9 am – 5 pm Sunday,
October 14 1 pm – 5 pm Monday,
October 15 – Friday, Oct 19 8 am – 8 pm Saturday,
October 20 9 am – 5 pm Sunday,
October 21 Resume Regular
Hours
Thanksgiving Recess Wednesday,
November 21 8 am – 6 pm Thursday,
Nov 22 – Friday, Nov 23 CLOSED Exam Period (November 29 – December 17) Monday
– Friday 7 am – midnight Saturday 8 am – 11 pm Sunday 10 am – midnight Exceptions Tuesday,
Dec. 18
7 am – 5 pm Wednesday,
Dec 19 – Friday, Dec 21 8 am – 5 pm Saturday,
Dec 22 – Tuesday, Dec 25 CLOSED Wednesday,
Dec 26 – Friday, Dec 28 8 am - 5 pm Saturday,
Dec 29 – Sunday, Dec 30 CLOSED Monday,
Dec 31
8 am – 5 pm Tuesday,
Jan 1
CLOSED Wednesday,
Jan 2 – Friday, Jan 4 8 am – 8 pm Saturday,
Jan 5 9 am – 5 pm Sunday,
Jan 6 Noon – 6 pm Monday,
Jan 7– Friday, Jan 11 8 am – 8 pm Saturday,
Jan 12 9 am – 5 pm Sunday,
Jan 13 1 pm – 9 pm Martin Luther King,
Jr. Monday, January 14
CLOSED Tuesday, January 15
Resume Regular Hours |
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Where to eat… §
Law School Café,
Sandella’s §
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Food Mall at 10th
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August/
September Library Display When
you have time, check out the new library display. In recognition of the
incoming class, it’s titled “Whatever Your Bag…The Faculty Recommends These
Books.” Included
with numerous means of book transportation are all the books whose titles
appear on the Faculty Recommended Reading List, along with a copy of the list
for students to keep. All of these
titles are available for check-out.
Just take them to the Circulation Desk. Don’t forget your Jag Tag. You can also
check the online catalog for other titles in which you might be interested. Best
wishes for a safe and enjoyable semester and good luck as you begin your new
classes. |
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Web
Sites to Peak Your Interest TechPresident: How
the candidates are using the web and how the web is using them – An intriguing
blog, plus links to the latest polls, and data on the number of YouTube views
and MySpace and Facebook friends for each candidate. Click on techPresident Politickr,
which "combines the official blog posts, news feeds, photo streams, and
video posts from 2008 presidential candidates (plus some unannounced wild
cards and third-party sites) and presents them side by side to help you keep
up with the election." http://techpresident.com/ Music from your
Favorite TV Shows – You know how, when you're watching TV,
there'll be music playing in the background
and you can't quite remember what the song was, or who performed it? For a
lot of network and cable shows, answers, and even the songs themselves, are
available here. Browse by the title of the TV show, or by the artist you think performed the
piece. Minding the Planet – "Minding"
in both senses: taking care of, and thinking. This is "Nova Spivack's
journal of unusual news and ideas, straight from the global mind to your
brain." Tech entrepreneur Spivack calls himself a "support system
for memes," and those memes are drawn from an incredibly wide variety of
topics and disciplines: AI, collective intelligence, cool products,
interspecies communication, semantic blogs and wikis, etc. http://novaspivack.typepad.com/ Lefthanders Day,
August 13
– Sorry we failed to alert you to this in time for lefties to celebrate it,
but the information here will be useful all year round - not to mention the
products that are designed for left-handers. http://www.lefthandersday.com/index.html Entries
courtesy of Marylane Block at: Ex
Libris: an E-Zine for Librarians and Other Information Junkies. <http://marylaine.com/exlibris/> |
Personal
Safety and Securing Your Belongings Do not leave laptop computers, book bags, purses, or
other items unattended anywhere in the library. If you find personal items left anywhere in the
building, turn them in to Therese at the Receptionist’s Desk in the
atrium. Therese will post Lost &
Found notices on the law school listservs. If you see anything or anyone suspicious, Report it to the Circulation or Reference Desk. If you do not feel safe leaving the law school, Contact
the Campus Police for an escort. Police: 274-7911 Escort service: 274-SAFE (7233) |
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"Courage
is the most important attribute of a lawyer. It is more important than
competence or vision. It can never be an elective in any law school. It can
never be de-limited, dated or outworn, and it should pervade the heart, the
halls of justice and the chambers of the mind." Robert F. Kennedy, Speech at University of
San Francisco Law School, San Francisco, 29 Sept. 1962, quoted in Sue G.
Hall, The Quotable Robert F. Kennedy 111 (1967) |
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Did
You Know…That Other Search Engines Could Be More Useful Than GOOGLE? Recent
articles have indicated that, while Google can be a useful research tool, it
is not the only reliable search engine.
And, in fact, while relying on Google for most research needs, many
users are missing valuable information that might be available elsewhere,
simply because they are not using other reputable search databases. On his blog, Search Engine Showdown, Greg
Notess recently posted an article in which he reports using six different
search engines to search for a personal website, using the AIM screen name of
the individual for whom he was searching. His results indicated that, of the
six databases he used (Ask, Exalead, Gigablast,
Google, Live, and Yahoo!,
though not in that order), only one of the six (Yahoo, to be specific) netted
the results he needed. None of the
other search engines produced similar results. Mr. Notess pointed out the lack of overlap
among search engines and the fact that, although Google may be an acceptable
alternative, serious researchers should not limit their search tasks to only
one such resource. He notes further
that there may be instances in which
Google retrieves fewer results than other search engines, although his
research is ongoing. You may take a
look at this and other related articles by going to http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/ . The
bottom line, of course, is that diligent researchers will go the extra mile,
by making sure that their searches encompass all the search engines at their
disposal. For law school students in
particular, that should also be applied to those searches in which WESTLAW
and LEXIS are the only databases consulted, limiting search results to only
those sets of documents to which these two vendors provide access. While
there will be research projects that only need results from these two
databases, if students are searching for Web documents outside the realm of
case reports or need materials that are more cross-disciplinary, consulting
numerous search engines within their reach would be most advisable. If
you have questions or concerns about the quality of research results you’re
retrieving, please feel free to contact one of the Reference Librarians
individually or just drop by the Reference Desk and talk to the librarian on
duty. We’re always glad to help out. |