In honor of First Monday, we’re highlighting all of the U.S. Supreme Court resources that are available at Cornell Law Library. Most readers know that we carry the Court’s decisions in the Gould Reading Room. Many might not know that we are also depository library for the records and briefs and oral arguments of Supreme Court cases. If print isn’t your thing, we carry many online resources of Supreme Court materials. These include PDF digitized records and briefs from 1832-1978 via The Making of Modern Law. HeinOnline makes available a U.S. Supreme Court Library that includes PDF versions of the official decisions, treatises and books on the Supreme Court, and the journals, Supreme Court Review and Supreme Court Economic Review. Any member of the Cornell Law community can sign up for BNA’s U.S. Law Week current awareness service “Supreme Court Today.”
The Law Library is happy to welcome two visitors from the Supreme Court Law Library in Brazil, Head Librarian Lilian Januzzi Vilas Boas and Digital Librarian Monica Fischer. Their internship here is the result of a collaboration that began when Director Claire Germain delivered the keynote address at the "First Seminar on Juridical Information Management in Digital Environments," an international symposium in Brasilia in February. During their three weeks here they will be participating in the general activities of the library. They will also be presenting at the Starr Foundation Workshop for international law librarians, "Tapping into the World of Electronic Legal Knowledge," to be held at the Law Library October 7-11. The Law Library is pleased to facilitate this cross cultural exchange of ideas and invites the Cornell law community to meet our visitors.
A person can have too many passwords. So the library has made it easier for you to make many requests online using your NetID and password, which most people have memorized. With your NetID, you can now easily renew books, recall books checked out to someone else, put a book on hold for yourself when it is returned, or request a book from another library on campus be sent to the Law Library for you to pick up here. And did you know you can get a list of library materials you currently have, check your online bookbag for saved records, or use Borrow Direct to have a book sent here for you from another area university? Yes, just use your NetID. Until now, you had to use your Cornell ID number, which is not a number most people know. You can conduct a lot of library business online, made even simpler now by using your NetID and password.
The Law Library is having a book sale beginning today, Monday, October 1, 2007, at 8:00 a.m. in the Gould Reading Room, and lasting until all books are sold. Books are $1.00, exact change required. The books will be located near the Circulation Desk. Come by and check it out!
Saturday - Sunday, Oct. 6 & 7 Closed
Monday - Friday, Oct. 8-12 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 13 Noon – 5 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 14 Noon – 10 p.m.