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Volume
3, Issue 2
Winter
2005 IN THIS ISSUE
Final Exams Notices Library Notices Winter Hours in the Library Take a break from the books… Library Display – Final Exams Web Sites to Get Hooked On Personal Safety – Police Escort New Research Tools – Google
Scholar &
Open WorldCat |
Final
Exams Notices November 26 to December 20 Please extend special courtesies to your colleagues during final
exams.
Note library closing dates and
special hours. Need help? Look at the Exam Preparation Tools featured in the display in the library
lobby. The law school computer labs are
managed by the University Information Technology department. If you have a problem in the lab and bring
it to our attention, the law library staff can call to report the problem and
request assistance. |
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Library Notices 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 Circulation.
Copiers are located on the First and Second Floors of the library near the
elevators. There is no copier on the Third Floor. Printing is free for
students using the Westlaw and Lexis printers. |
LIBRARY HOURS – Winter 2005 Regular Schedule Monday –
Friday 8 am – 11 pm Saturday 9 am – 9 pm Sunday 11 am – 11 pm Thanksgiving Recess Wednesday,
November 23 8 am – 6 pm Thursday,
Nov 24 – Friday, Nov 25 CLOSED Exam Period (November 26 – December 20) Monday –
Friday 7 am – midnight Saturday 8 am – 11 pm Sunday 10 am – midnight Tuesday,
Dec 20
7 am – 9 pm Winter Break Hours (December 21 – January 15) Wednesday,
Dec 21 – Friday, Dec 23 8 am – 5 pm Saturday,
Dec 24 – Monday, Dec 26 CLOSED Tuesday,
Dec 27 – Friday, Dec 30 8 am - 5 pm Saturday,
Dec 31 – Monday, Jan 2 CLOSED Tuesday,
Jan 3 – Friday, Jan 6 8 am – 8 pm Saturday,
Jan 7 9 am – 5 pm Sunday,
Jan 8 1 pm – 9 pm Monday,
Jan 9 – Friday, Jan 13 8 am – 8 pm Saturday,
Jan 14 9 am – 5 pm Sunday,
Jan 15 1 pm – 9 pm Martin Luther King, Jr. Monday, January 16
CLOSED Tuesday, January 17
Resume Regular Hours |
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Take a break from the books …
Indianapolis Cultural Districts
http://www.discoverculturaldistricts.com |
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“Thanksgiving for the Abundance …
of Exam Prep Resources” The next time you’re in the library, look at the November display.
Tying in with a Thanksgiving theme, it's titled, "Thanksgiving for the
Abundance…of Exam Prep Resources". Along with a cornucopia of fruits, vegetables, and fall foliage, this
display highlights the numerous exam preparation resources owned by the
library. In addition to the print
resources, we have also provided a handout that lists online resources. The individual books are available for
check-out and we have duplicate copies of most of them. Check them out at the Circulation Desk. The other online sources in the display may
be copied, but please return the originals to the display when you’re done
copying. Best wishes for a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving and good luck as you
prepare for exams. |
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Web Sites
to Get Hooked On Arts & Letters Daily – For links to news and articles about literature, art,
philosophy, breakthroughs, ideas, trends, history, and other topics, visit
this free service of the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://www.aldaily.com The CIA’s World Factbook – Learn more about our world from
country profiles, statistics & reference maps on this site. Click on Search the World Factbook (term:
“constitution”) to find current information about country constitutions: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
index.html Google Earth – Find the law school or your hometown using satellite imagery and
maps. Explore this 3D interface to the
planet: http://earth.google.com OMB Watch
– This nonprofit government watchdog organization promotes open government,
accountability and citizen participation:
http://www.ombwatch.org Open the Government – This broad-based coalition of organizations seeks to
advance the public’s right to know and to reduce secrecy in the
government: http://www.openthegovernment.org |
Personal Safety and Securing Your Belongings Do not leave laptop computers, book bags, purses, or other items
unattended anywhere in the library. 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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A lawyer without books would be like a
workman without tools. Thomas Jefferson, in Papers of Thomas Jefferson 1:24 (Julian P. Boyd ed. 1950) |
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GOOGLE
SCHOLAR AND OPEN WORLDCAT Recently, the internet search engine Google
introduced a new concept with Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com,
aimed at allowing users to find scholarly information on the Web. Google Scholar attempts to include
“peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical
reports from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint
repositories and universities, and scholarly articles available across the
Web.” From all these sources, Google Scholar displays
several types of records: ·
Web documents ·
Article
citation-only records ·
Book
citation-only records. The Web documents are those records that either
link to a Web page that describes the document or link directly to an online
version of it. The citation-only
records for articles and books are extracted from Web documents and do not
link directly to information in electronic form. For those items that are book-title citations,
users have the option of clicking from these records in Google Scholar to a
“Find in a Library” feature, which links them to catalogs of nearby OCLC WorldCat member libraries for service. The feature that OCLC offers through Google
is called “Open WorldCat,” and the current record
set now makes available over 65 percent of all WorldCat
holdings to users of that search engine.
(OCLC WorldCat is the largest online
bibliographic database, and represents the holdings of more than 53,000
libraries in 96 countries.) More
records are being “harvested” by Google, and when completed, this will make
all of the holdings of Open WorldCat available to
researchers. A similar Internet toolbar in Yahoo! Search enables
researchers to use Yahoo! Search to explore both the Web and abbreviated
records from Open WorldCat. |