It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

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Maybe That Is In Dispute

You may well disagree with that classic song title’s sentiment given that final exams start tomorrow. We understand if you are feeling a little anxious, especially if you are a 1L. The Marx Law Library is here for you. We’ve got study aids online and in print, CALI lessons, and legal research experts to point you in the right direction. Bookmark Susan Boland’s comprehensive guide to study aids by subject matter. Don’t worry if you were studying so hard that you forgot to make breakfast! We’ll be serving bagels beginning Tuesday morning and SBA is providing snacks during the day. So feed your brain, feed your body, and do whatever it takes to feed your soul – we’re with you all the way to the end of the semester!

The Semester Draws to a Close—Can Exams Be Far Behind?

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Your Effort and Our Resources Can Lead to Success!

With classes ending this week, students get a few days of using a more flexible schedule to finish preparing for exams. Facing exams can be an anxious time for first-semester 1Ls and experienced law students alike. Please take advantage of the services and resources available to you, such as study groups and the programs offered by Joel Chanvisanuruk, our Assistant Dean for Academic Success and Bar Programs. Also, know that the Law Library offers a wealth of resources to help you prepare for exams. Here is a partial list of them:

  • CALI Lessons: CALI offers more than 1,000 online lessons on nearly every law school subject. They are interactive, self-paced quizzes that teach or reinforce your understanding of the subject. If you haven’t already registered for CALI, you will need the school’s authorization code. Send us an email message and we will reply with the code.
  • Online Study Aids: You have 24/7 access to over 400 study aids on West Academic and over 200 more on Lexis OverDrive. And don’t forget print study aids in the Reference 2 collection on the entrance floor of the library.
  • Use your access to PowerNotes to take notes from and organize outlines with online resources. Find helpful details in the 1L Study Guide! In fact, all levels of our students can find useful information in that guide!
  • If you are organizing hard copy notes and outlines, you’ll find WEPA printers on the library’s second and third floors and helpful tools like staplers and hole punches at the circulation desk.

 

Feed Your Body As Well As Your Mind

The Marx Law Library is happy to again provide bagels and beverages during exams. Because of university financial reporting requirements, we ask that once during the exam period you print your name on the sheets that will be available at the bagel table. Thank you!

 

Thanksgiving Week; Native American Month

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Thanksgiving in an Academic Setting

Thanksgiving is a light work week in academic institutions, with no official business on Thursday or Friday and many folks departing Wednesday or earlier to join family or to otherwise take advantage of the holiday. Most of us have something or even many people and things for which to be thankful. We at the Marx Law Library wish the best possible Thanksgiving for you!

Native American Heritage Month

November is Native American Heritage Month in the U.S. The timing is not coincidental: most of us learned some version of the meeting of Pilgrim refugees and Native Americans at what was to become Massachusetts while we were in elementary school. The subsequent history is fraught with violence and forced resettlement of American Indians. Controversy continues today, including a notable apparent voter suppression campaign in North Dakota for the 2018 mid-term election. Please take a look at the materials that Susan Boland has gathered in the library’s display area. Here is some of the information that Susan provides:

  • Total Native American and Alaskan Native population: 6.8 million
  • Ohio Native American population: 424,625 or 0.3% of the state’s residents.
  • Number of federally recognized American Indian tribes in 2018: 573
  • Number of federally recognized American Indian reservations in 2016: 326
  • Proportion of U.S. attorneys who are Native American: 1%.
  • Number of active Native American federal judges: 1
  • Number of Native Americans who entered law school in 2016: 187

 

Library & Lexis Lunch & Learn on Tuesday, November 20th

  • How to Handle a Real Research Problem with Susan Boland and Ashley Russell
    • 12:15 – 1:15 P.M. in Room 118
    • Lunch and Lexis Points Provided! Advance registration is required.

 

Featured Research Resources

  • Study Aids:Principles of Federal Indian Law online at West Academic and Mastering American Indian Law online at Lexis OverDrive.
  • Treatise: Cohn’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law available online on Lexis Advance.

 

A Week of Remembrance

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Marking a Century Since the End of the Great War

We join with people across the globe in recognizing the end of World War I, also now ironically called “the war to end all wars.” November 11th, 1918, on which day the armistice agreement was signed and later that morning took effect, gave its name to the day as Armistice Day. In the U.K., the Commonwealth nations France and several other European countries it is now called Remembrance Day. The United States renamed the public holiday as Veterans Day following the end of the Korean War. The Law Library salutes those who have served and are serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, and joins with those around the world who seek peace and justice.

Display and Resources This Week

Susan Boland has set up a display of materials relating to military law at the library entrance. Also take note of these resources:


Library & Lexis Lunch & Learn

  • How to Handle a Real Research Problem with Susan Boland and Ashley Russell
    • Tuesday, November 20th, 12:15 – 1:15 P.M. in Room 118
    • Lunch and Lexis Points Provided! Advance registration is required.


The Mid-Term Election Arrives Tuesday!

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Have You Voted Yet? If Not, Please Vote Tomorrow!

Elections matter, and so does your vote. If your vote didn’t matter, then there wouldn’t be officials in some states who try so hard to suppress voting. Please make your voice heard in this most effective and crucial manner! Susan Boland has set up an Elections Law display at the front of the library, and has offered these related resources:

 

Library & Lexis Lunch & Learn

  • Exam Preparation with Susan Boland and Ashley Russell
    • Tuesday, November 6th, 12:15 – 1:15 P.M. in Room 302
    • Lunch and Lexis Points Provided! Advance registration is required.

 

Additional Research Training Opportunties

  • Tuesday, November 6th
    • Professor Oliver’s Section 6
      • Researching a Problem from Start to Finish with Ronald Jones
      • 1:30 – 2:55 P.M. in Room 100B
  • Wednesday, November 7th
    • Professor Oliver’s Section 1
      • Researching a Problem from Start to Finish with Ronald Jones
      • 10:40 A.M. – 12:05 P.M. in Room 100B

 

Start with Zombies and End By Adjusting Your Clock

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From Halloween ’til Standard Time

Although we librarians generally stick to facts, there seems to be some concern about protecting you from zombies and other odd creatures and occurrences this week. We do favor treats over tricks, other than the occasional sleight-of-hand. Stop by for plenty of research tricks (short-cuts) and treats (training sessions) and a little candy as well. When you wake up on Sunday, be sure that you have set back the few clocks and watches you may own that do not automatically adjust themselves.

Upcoming Research Sessions

    • Monday, October 29th
      • Professor Smith’s Section 5
        • Researching from Start to Finish with Susan “Hauntingly Smart” Boland and a passing black cat.
        • 10:40 A.M. – 12:05 P.M. in Room 100A
      • Professor Smith’s Section 3
        • Researching from Start to Finish with Susan “Hauntingly Smart still” Boland and another passing black cat.
        • 3:05 – 4:30 P.M. in Room 100A
    • Wednesday, October 31
      • Professor Gilderoy Lockhart’s Section 13
        • Defense Against the Dark Arts in Equity or Law, Instructor TBA
        • 11:59:30 P.M. – Midnight in Room ???
    • Thursday, November 1st
      • Professor McCord’s Section
        • Research from Start to Finish with Shannon “Eerily Well-Prepared” Kemen and any leftover candy.

 

Featured Resources for Legislation on Zombies and More Conventional Subjects

This is “Open Access Week!”

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International Open Access Week

This week draws attention to Open Access literature and research, which generally is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Through the Marx Law Library the College of Law publishes scholarship in two open access repositories: our institutional Digital Commons repository and LawArXive. Our law librarians can help faculty publish scholarship to these open access sites. Additionally, Director of the Law Library Ken Hirsh is a signatory to the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship, which calls for law schools to publish their journals in open access sites in stable, digital formats.

Upcoming Research Training Sessions

  • Wednesday, October 24th
    • Professor Smith’s Section 5
      • Basic Terms & Connectors Searching with Susan Boland
      • 10:40 A.M. – 12:05 P.M. in Room 100A
    • Professor Bradley’s Sections 2 & 4
      • Research from Start to Finish with Shannon Kemen
      • 10:40 A.M. – 12:05 P.M. in Room 114
    • Professor Smith’s Section 3
      • Basic Terms & Connectors Searching with Susan Boland
      • 3:05 – 4:30 P.M. in Room 100A
  • Friday, October 26th
    • Professor Oliver’s Section 6
      • Basic Terms & Connectors Searching with Ronald Jones
      • 9:00 – 10:25 A.M. in room 100B
    • Professor Oliver’s Section 1
      • Basic Terms & Connectors Searching with Ronald Jones
      • 11:10 A.M. – 12:35 P.M. in room 100B