Celebrate National Library Week With Us!

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Our Own Special Week!

We in the Robert S. Marx Law Library love giving our customers the best possible library services to help students, faculty, and staff do your jobs every day! As the American Library Association reminds us, “Celebrate the unlimited possibilities @ your library!®” Stop by throughout the week for snacks; on Tuesday afternoon, we’ll have cake and coffee to celebrate National Library Workers Day. And you thought that administrative assistants had April celebrations all to themselves! Remember that you can stop by during business hours at anytime to get the help you need to fulfil your information needs, and find us 24×7 at our website!

Upcoming Legal Research Sessions

  • Tuesday, April 14th
    • Professor Smith’s sections: Low Cost & Free Legal Research with Susan Boland
      • Section 4 in Room 100A 10:40 A.M. – 12:05 P.M.
      • Section 2 in Room 100A 1:30 P.M. – 2:55 P.M.
  • Wednesday, April 15th
    • Professor Lenhart’s section 1: Cost Effective Research with Ron Jones
      • Room 100B 10:40 A.M. – 12:05 P.M.
  • Thursday, April 16th
    • Professor Bradley’s section 5 Low Cost & Free Legal Research with Shannon Kemen
      • Room 302 1:30 P.M. &ndash 2:55 P.M.
  • Friday, April 17th
    • Professor Bradley’s section 3Low Cost & Free Legal Research with Shannon Kemen
      • Room 302 10:40 A.M. &ndash 12:05 P.M.

 

This Week in the Law Library

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Spring is really here and we urge students to take a timely break from studies to enjoy sunshine and fresh air. Build up your vitamin D store!

Research Training Sessions This Week

  • Tuesday, April 7th
    • Professor Smith’s section 2
      • Cost-effective Research with Susan Boland
      • 1:30 – 2:55 P.M. in Room 100A
    • Professor Smith’s section 4
      • Cost-effective Research with Susan Boland
      • 10:40 A.M. – 12:05 P.M. in Room 100A
  • Wednesday, April 8th
    • Professor Lenhart’s section 1
      • Low Cost & Free Resources with Ron Jones
      • 10:40 A.M. – 12:05 P.M. in Room 100B
    • Library & Lexis Lunch & Learn Series
      • Preparing for Bar Exams with Shannon Kemen and Ashley Russell
      • 12:15 – 1:15 P.M. in Room 302
      • Lunch and Lexis points; advance registration is required.
  • Thursday, April 9th
    • Professor Bradley’s section 5
      • Administrative Law with Shannon Kemen
      • 2:30 – 2:55 P.M. in Room 302
  • Friday, April 10th
    • Professor Bradley’s section 5
      • Administrative Law with Shannon Kemen
      • 10:40 A.M. – 12:05 P.M. in Room 302

 

CALI Update Session for Faculty & Staff

  • Presented by Sarah Glassmeyer, J.D. ’02 and CALI Director of Community Development
    • Monday, April 13 , 12:15 P.M. – 1:15 P.M. in Room 118
    • Pizza lunch provided; advance registration is required.

 

Start getting ready for exams with our Exam Study Guide!

 

This Week in the Law Library: Learning Opportunities

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Library & Lexis Lunch & Learn

  • Monday, March 30th
  • Lexis Training for 1L students with Ashley Russell and Shannon Kemen
  • 12:15 P.M. – 1:15 P.M. in Room 114
  • Registration was required.

 

Administrative Law Research Session

  • Professor Lenhart’s section 1 with Ron Jones
  • Wednesday, April 1st (No foolin’!)
  • 10:40 A.M. – 12:05 P.M. in Room 100B

 

CALI Presentation for Faculty and Staff

On Monday, April 13, Sarah Glassmeyer, Law ’02 and Director of Community Development for CALI will give a presentation about using CALI exercises and other CALI services. The session will be in Room 118 from 12:15 to 1:15 P.M. Lunch will be provided, so please register in advance with Ken Hirsh.

This Week in the Law Library: Register for 1L Research Training

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Library & Lexis Lunch & Learn Series

We invite 1L students to take your Lexis research skills to the next level by registering for and attending the next session in this series.

  • Monday, March 30th
  • 12:15 P.M. – 1:15 P.M. in Room 114
  • Lunch provided and receive Lexis points!
  • Register by Friday, March 27th with Shannon Kemen.

 

Research Guides

This week’s featured research guide is “Bluebook Citation 101: Practitioner Format“. The guide will help you properly cite to your sources in memoranda and briefs. The format for these documents is different than it is for law review articles. Use the guide to help you become a Bluebook master!

A Fresh Look for the College of Law Scholarship Repository

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Working with our partners at bepress we’ve updated the look of our scholarship repository. The repository is the go-to site for open access to articles and other materials from faculty at the College of Law. The Marx Law Library is proud to facilitate making our faculty’s hard work more widely available, and we strongly support open access to legal scholarship.

The repository also hosts the online presence of the University of Cincinnati Law Review and will soon host our newest and exclusively online student-edited publication, the University of Cincinnati Intellectual Property and Computer Law Journal.

Almost to Spring Break!

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We in the Law Library know that students are looking forward to spring break next week, when many will take a well-deserved few days off from books and brief-writing. And since the break comes at a little past the mid-point of the semester, it’s a downhill run from here, right?

Upcoming Research Training Sessions

  • Thursday, March 12th
    • Professor Bradley’s Section 6
      • Advanced Searching with Shannon Kemen
      • 1:30 P.M. – 2:55 P.M.
      • Room 302
  • Friday, March 13th
    • Professor Bradley’s Section 3
      • Advanced Searching with Shannon Kemen
      • 10:40 A.M. – 12:05 P.M.
      • Room 302


This Week in the Law Library

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Law Librarians Teach Every Week

Although we have no scheduled special research training sessions this week, our law librarians continue their teaching efforts. Susan Boland, Ron Jones, and Ken Hirsh are leading the Advanced Legal Research Class, where this week they will be putting the students to work on constitutional history research and statutory research. The ALR course is taught as a “flipped classroom” and in a team learning concept. The former simply means that students are required to do their reading and view lectures via webinars before the class period, and during class they work on research exercises under the guidance of the instructors. The latter means that students work together in teams, providing them both with extra sets of minds in solving problems and experience in a collaborative work environment.

Shannon Kemen and Ken Hirsh meet with a small group of students in Technology in the Law Practice. This week Scott Kane, UC Law ’97 and partner at Squire Patton Boggs will lead a session on e-discovery. Scott is an expert in discovery and graciously lends his time to us each this year. He also is a member of the College of Law’s Board of Visitors.

Professor Jill Fisch to Give the 2015 Robert S. Marx Lecture

The Law Library’s namesake also is attached to the Marx Lecture, through the generosity of the Marx Testamentary Trustees. Professor Jill Fisch of The University of Pennsylvania Law School will be speaking on “The Mess at Morgan: Risk, Incentives and Shareholder Empowerment.” The lecture will be held on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 12:10 P.M. in Room 114.