Looking for romance?

• William P. Rogers, ‘37, former Secretary of State, met his wife Adele in the Reading Room
• Professors Emily Sherwin and Kevin Clermont were married in the Rare Book Room
• Most recently, two law students, Lauren Pierson and Austen Rainwater, became engaged in the Reading Room

LAWYERING WEEK 2012 – RESEARCH SESSIONS

Tuesday, January 17

Wednesday, January 18

Thursday, January 19

Work Smarter

The Library open house award winners:

• Qing Jing, LLM (won a gift card to Purity Ice Cream).
• Mystyk Metrik, 2L (won a gift card to Gimme Coffee).
• Florian Plagemann, 3L (won a gift card to Cinemapolis).
• Juan Diego Alonso Succar, 1L (won the grand prize – gets to choose between two round trip campus-to-campus bus tickets to New York City, or a limousine wine tour for 2-4 people).

The Law library is hosting an open house for all students on Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 11:00am-1:00pm, in the Gould Reading Room. Library resources and services will be featured at stations throughout the room, including:

• An introduction to “hidden” online databases;
• Information regarding personalized research consultations;
• An overview of upper level research classes;
• A look at our open access repository of Cornell student and faculty scholarship;
• Demonstrations of our library catalog and interlibrary loan services;
• A rare book display;
• And more.

Students who visit every station will receive a library pen and be entered in a grand prize drawing to win their choice of two round trip Campus-to-Campus bus tickets to New York City, or a limousine wine tour for 2-4 people. Other prize drawings will feature $25 gift certificates to local businesses including Gimme! Coffee, Cinemapolis, and Purity Ice Cream. Drawings will occur at 1pm; students need not be present to win.

A book sale will be held simultaneously with the open house. All books will be available for $1 at the East end of the Reading Room.

Join us for some quick, informative fun and snag a seasonal snack from Cornell Orchards!

New Students: check out our Survival Guide and Study Aids. 

 2011 LLM LIBRARY ORIENTATION SCHEDULE

Wednesday, August 17, 3:00 – 4:45

·         3:00 – 4:00.  Welcome, Introduction to the Program, and Statues & Regulations, Matt Morrison

·         4:00 – 4:45.  Online Demo, Pat Court

Thursday, August 18, 10:30 – 12:30

·         10:30 – 11:45.  Courts & Cases, Thomas Mills

·         11:45 – 12:30.  Online Demo, Pat Court

Friday, August 19, 3:05 – 5:00

·         3:05 – 3:30.  Secondary Sources, Concepts & Types, Thomas Mills

·         3:30 – 4:05.  Secondary Sources Online Review, Catalog, Hein, etc., Matt Morrison

·         4:05 – 4:15.  Travel to Reading Room

·         4:15 – 5:00.  Secondary Sources Round Robin*

*Five stations as follows:

Station 1:  Circulation Desk, Matt Morrison.  Discussion of treatises, hornbooks, nutshells, and study aids.

Station 2:  Reference Desk, Janet Gillespie.  Discussion of reference services, schedule, and resources including Black's, Bieber's, etc.

Station 3:  American Law Reports in Alcove 17, Jean Callihan.  Review of annotations and their functions.

Station 4:  Law Reviews at east end of Reading Room, Thomas Mills.  Review samples of journals, reviews, commercially published, bar rags, etc.

Station 5:  Legal Encyclopedias and Restatements in Alcove 46, Pat Court.  Review of AmJur, CJS, NYJur, ULA, and Restatements.

The 2011 Winners of the Cornell Law Library Prize for Exemplary Student Research are:

• First Place: Improving Drinking Water Provision under Increasing Global and Regional Economic Integration, by William Garthwaite
  
  
• Second Place: Law on the Books vs. Law in Action: Under-Enforcement of Morocco's Reformed 2004 Family Law, the Moudawana, by Annie Eisenberg

Funding for the Cornell Law Library Prize for Exemplary Student Research is provided by an endowment given to the Law Library by Barbara Cantwell in honor of her late husband, Robert Cantwell, a 1956 graduate of Cornell Law School.

Position Announcement

Title: Edward Cornell Law Librarian

Cornell University seeks an experienced and innovative academic leader to serve as Director of its Law Library. The Law Librarian provides strategic vision, fiscal stewardship, operational management, and ensures outstanding service to faculty and students in the Law School. In order to support the teaching, research, and outreach mission, the Librarian builds collaborative relationships across the law school, within the library system, and throughout the profession. The Law Librarian works closely with the dean and vice dean of the law school, the library administration, and the faculty to understand the current and anticipated needs of the community. Within the Law Library, the Librarian has the opportunity to develop a strong team of service-oriented research attorneys and library assistants and to work with the staff to develop a compelling and cohesive vision for a 21^st century law library.

The Edward Cornell Law Director sets strategic directions for the Law Library; oversees a staff of 19, a budget of $1.6M, and an extensive collection of print and digital materials; develops collaborative relationships with the faculty, particularly in areas related to information services and management; participates in the University Library’s management teams and contributes substantively to its strategic initiatives; provides leadership and works collaboratively with staff in Alumni Affairs and Development to identify and cultivate relationships with donors and alumni of the Law School. As a member of the Law School faculty, the Law Librarian has a unique opportunity to develop services that support the evolving curriculum and align Law Library programs to enhance and promote faculty scholarship. She/he reports jointly to the Dean of the Law School and the Associate University Librarian.

Background: Cornell University is an Ivy League comprehensive research university located in Ithaca in the scenic Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. The city and the university offer a unique cosmopolitan and international atmosphere in a beautiful natural setting of waterfalls, gorges, and lakes. The university comprises 14 schools with over 2,700 faculty members and nearly 21,600 students enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and professional schools.

Cornell Law School combines inspired teaching with cutting-edge scholarship in a close-knit and collegial intellectual community. Hallmarks of the school include: a faculty that excels not only in scholarly productivity, but also as teachers; an approach to legal education that encourages collaboration and interdisciplinary research; a global emphasis, including educational partnerships around the world; a strong and vital connection to a world-class research university; and graduates who are connected and make a difference. The Law School is also home to the Legal Information Institute (LII). LII was the first to provide open-access legal information on the Internet, more than 15 years ago. At this point, LII combines the latest in technology with top notch legal expertise to provide legal information to a huge global Internet audience – 10 million hits per week from over 200 countries – for free. Over 1.5 million web pages worldwide link to LII.

With deep scholarly collections online and rich resources in print (over 700,000 volumes), the Law Library serves the legal research needs of the Law School, University, and transnational communities. All members of the library staff support the pedagogical and research needs of the students and faculty and the library’s Research Attorneys teach numerous courses in the law school curriculum. The Law Library is the third largest library in the Cornell University Library system which contains nearly 8 million printed volumes, thousands of serials, more than 650,000 online resources, and rich materials in other formats. The Cornell University Library is a vigorous professional organization with a strong track record of service and innovation. It was honored as the recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Excellence in Academic Libraries Award in 2002.

Requirements: Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, and work successfully with a team of staff within a Law School setting. Excellent communication skills, compelling vision, and the ability to foster effective working relationships with faculty, students, staff, and donors. The successful candidate should have at least five years of management and leadership experience in a law library, an understanding of trends related to a rapidly evolving information environment, and a record of active engagement in scholarship and the profession. A J.D. or equivalent degree from an accredited institution and an M.L.S. degree or equivalent are required.

Benefits: Competitive in salary, rank, professional development support, and benefits. Comprehensive benefits package includes 22 vacation days, 11 paid holidays, health insurance, life insurance, and university retirement contributions.

Application Procedure: Applications will be reviewed beginning February 1^st and will be accepted until this position is filled. To apply for this position go to http://www.ohr.cornell.edu/jobs/, search under the job category of Librarians, and select posting number 13905. Follow the instructions for online submission. Please include a cover letter, resume, and the names, phone numbers, and addresses for three references. Salary will be competitive and commensurate with experience.

For general inquiries about this position or Cornell University, please contact Lyndsi Prignon, Associate Director of Library Human Resources, at lra8@cornell.edu or 607-255-9560. For additional information or confidential inquiries, please contact Barbara Holden-Smith, Chair, Law Library Director Search Committee, Vice Dean, and Professor of Law Cornell Law School, at bjh12@cornell.edu or 607-255-8577.

Cornell University seeks to meet the needs of dual career couples, has a Dual Career program, and is a member of the Upstate New York Higher Education Recruitment Consortium to assist with dual career searches. Visit http://www.unyherc.org/home/index.cfm?site_id=671 to see positions available in higher education in the upstate New York area.

Cornell University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer strongly committed to diversity. We value qualified candidates who can bring to our community a variety of backgrounds and experiences.

If you attended Monday’s "Research in the Real World" session and have not yet provided an evaluation, please take a moment to respond to the following questions via email to aae25@cornell.edu by Friday, April 9, 2010.

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PowerPoint slides from the session are available through Blackboard and are also posted here.

We appreciate your time in providing the feedback necessary to make this program helpful to you.

Research in the Real World (April 5, 2010)
Slides available here!

The Law Library thanks all of the Summer Research Survey participants and congratulates Daniel Forester on winning the Cornell Men's Hockey tickets! Enjoy the game, Daniel.

CORNELL LAW LIBRARIANS GAVE PRESENTATIONS IN CHINA

Claire M. Germain, the Edward Cornell Law Librarian and Professor of Law, spoke at the China-U.S. Conference on Legal Information and Law Libraries held in Beijing, China, on May 28-30, 2009. Her topic was "Digitizing the World's Laws," and she discussed collaborative projects on worldwide access to law through the Internet, such as the world legal information institutes, the Global Legal Information Network, and digitization of print materials at Cornell. She also covered digital law issues, such as long term access and preservation and authenticity of official sources. [See the whole article.]

Pat Court, Associate Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law, spoke at the forum on University Law Library and Legal Education Reform in the Age of Globalization in Shanghai, China, on June 3, 2009. Her topics were "Teaching Legal Research in U.S. Law Schools" and "Traditional Services and Challenges in the Digital Age." She addressed authentication of legal sources on the web and the wide array of courses and workshops taught by Cornell law librarians. The forum was held at Jiao Tong University, KoGuan Law School, hosted by Law School Dean Ji Weidong and coordinated by Law Librarian Xu Xiaobing, Director of the Law Library and Lecturer of Law. Deans and librarians from the top thirteen law schools in China came together to discuss legal education reform. An important outcome of the meetings was the signing of an agreement to institute sharing of legal materials between their law libraries for the enhanced scholarship and study of their law faculty and law students.

The Shanghai forum presented an opportunity for top Chinese law schools to share ideas on how legal information could move forward the missions of each of the law schools. Pat Court serves as consultant to the Law Library at Jiao Tong University.

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