Cornell Law Library Highlights and Accomplishments July 1997-June 1998
AALL 1998 Best Law Library Publication Award (Non-Print). Recognizing Cornell Law Library web site CUL Internal Grant Competition Award for Rare Book Conservation CD-ROMAVeb Project. Daniel Smith (Law) and Michelle Brown (Conservation Dpt.) won the top award. They will document the various stages of the restoration process of a number of rare books, and produce a digital image database and multimedia presentations, both to educate and attract prospective donors. CUL Fuerst Outstanding Library Student Award. Given to Adam Kantor for his exceptional performance on the web site (5 students recognized out of 600). LegaLOnline Award. Five-star rating for Foreign and International Law Resources on the Internet web guide. International Labour Organization Mirror Web Site. Created as part of new partnership with ILO, to include faculty, student, and staff exchanges, as well as internet research Hein Digital Journals Project. The law library is working with CIT and Hein Publishing Co. to digitized early law reviews, such as the Cornell Law Quarterly, and make available to researchers over the Internet both a facsimile copy of the print and a fully searchable version. Faculty Services. Review of faculty liaison services led to renewed strength, focusing on computer desktop research; extensive personalized research assistance to support faculty scholarship. Two library Faculty Workshops taught: on new Westlaw KeyCite service (August 11) and Lexis’ Virtual Classroom for web site production (April 15) Legal Research Courses. Practice Training 1 taught by two librarians in Fall 1997 (because of staff shortage; normally taught by four), including seven class meetings each week, and highly effective at teaching basics and integrated electronic strategies; new plans made for Legal Methods course, with important improvements integrating research and writing experience; developed new course on Advanced Legal Research, to be offered as seminar in Spring 1999 Student Services. Intensive training program for law students continued, with seminars on legal research on the web, LL.M. orientation, journal staff trainings, Academic Orientation, immigration, public international law, Lexis, Westlaw, judicial clerkships, and Sail Into Summer. Not including PT1, conducted 40 classes for 717 students and 45 tours for 586 students Alumni Sessions. Internet and Rare Books sessions for Law School Advisory Council, September 13, and for Alumni Reunion on June 6 Law Library Open House. Unveiling of International Labour Organization mirror site and Rare Books Room tours on April 9 Cataloging. Completed reclassification of monographs and some serials for France, Italy, Latin America, South Africa, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Nigeria, West Africa, Tunisia, and Ethiopia. Began work on reclassifying German materials, with a LL.M. student help and one-year temporary appointment (Anne Carson), thanks to CUL recon money. Implemented streamlined cataloging procedures (fastcat). Cataloged 2350 new titles; reclassified 6910 titles; converted 1270 from old card catalog to online catalog. Review of cataloging practices by a team led by Karen Calhoun (CUL), to lead to implemention of streamlining cataloging, with due consideration of law user needs