Google Scholar Latest Development

In its latest endeavor, Google Scholar has ventured into the legal community.
Google Scholar latest feature allows you the opportunity to search federal/state cases, patents, and journal articles. The new feature has three radio buttons which will allow you to search Articles, Legal Periodicals, or Patents. You will have to search for each item individually.
In order to get additional information regarding this feature, go to Resource Shelf or Google Scholar.

NCCU School of Law Library

NCCU School of Law Library is operating on a 24 hour schedule through December 11th.

NCCU Law Library will allow 24 hour access with a NCCU Law access card.

Jotwell

Legal Scholarship Online Review

Have you ever felt frustrated while conducting legal research because you were bombarded with legal periodicals and treatises? The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) (Jotwell) is an electronic publication sponsored by the University of Miami School of Law. Jotwell is a website which provides reviews of the latest legal scholarship.
The major areas of law currently featured include:
• Administrative Law
• Constitutional Law
• Corporate Law
• Criminal Law
• Cyberlaw
• Intellectual Property Law
• Legal Profession
• Tax Law

OnePass from Westlaw

Westlaw Changes
Changes from Westlaw
Westlaw is moving away from the use of lengthy, alphanumeric passwords that don't require user names, to the new "OnePass" system of custom user names and passwords. A timeline for this transition is available at http://lawschool.westlaw.com/shared/marketinfodisplay.asp?code=MI&id=327.
Alphanumeric Westlaw passwords will no longer be active after February 1, 2010. If you now log in to Westlaw with your Westlaw password, please create a OnePass username and password or update your exisiting OnePass accounts prior to February 1.

NCCU Law Library Director

NCCU School of Law is proud to announce that Lauren M Collins has been named the Director of the Law Library. Professor Collins joined the law school in October of 2009. Prior to that, she was the Head of Reference Services at the J. Michael Goodson Law Library at Duke University. She has held positions as a reference librarian at Duke, Wayne State University and the University of Miami. Professor Collins received a Master of Science in Information from the University of Michigan (2003), J.D. from the University of North Carolina (1994) and a B.A. in Communications from Howard University (1991). After graduating from law school, Professor Collins practiced employment and labor law in North Carolina and Michigan and provided anti-harassment training to union employees for a national law firm.

Professor Collins serves on the Publications Committee of the North Carolina State Bar. She is active in the American Association of Law Libraries, having served on national committees and as an officer at the local and national levels. Her work includes articles in AALL Spectrum and the North Carolina State Bar Journal. She has developed legal research lessons for the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) on international legal research topics and cost effective legal research.

CALI Lessons

The clock is officially ticking. It is time to get ready for final exams. Have you been studying, and want to test your knowledge of the material? If you answered yes to this question, then you should take advantage of CALI exercises. CALI is an online tutorial that will help you prepare for your final exams. You can review a lesson by topic, author, or course information.

The website to access CALI is www.cali.org.

You will need to create a login account and type in the school code. The school code can be obtained by contacting a reference librarian.

Lunchtime Refresher Series

Traffic Tickets and Library Resources.
Guess What?
Your very first case will most likely be a traffic ticket.
Don't you want to get ahead of the game...
Join Us:
Date: 10/21/2009
Time: 12:00-12:50
Where: The Library Conference Room
(Signup Sheet at the Front Desk)