Cornell Law Library Annual Report 1999

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Cornell Law Library Highlights and Accomplishments July 1998-December 1998

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[Numbers refer to sections in CUL Goals and Objectives]

Gilt of Nuremberg Trial Transcripts. Henry Korn Gift. With special dedication ceremony (Oct 22). Exhibit and lecture on “The Legacy o f Nuremberg: Sustaining Human Rights,” prepared by Daniel Smith Faculty Services - faculty liaison services, focused this year on research resources available through individual new computer work stations; extensive research assistance with faculty scholarship. Faculty Workshop - Lexis’ Virtual Classroom for Web site production (April 15) Services to Students. In the fall o f 1998, the four law-trained reference law librarians spent much time teaching the new Legal Methods course in research and writing for 1st year students, planned and co-taught in conjunction with Legal Writing instructors, with important improvements integrating the research and writing experience. In the Spring o f 1999, three o f them and the director will start teaching a new seminar in Advanced Legal Research (three credit hours) Classroom teaching included research sessions in substantive law classes, e.g., antitrust (Joseph Luke), Immigration Seminar (Pat Court), and European Union law (Daniel Smith) Intensive Instructional Program for law students continued, with library orientation tours to all first years and LL.M.s (Sept. 98), seminars on legal research on the Web, LL.M. orientation, journal staff trainings (a professional librarian is assigned to each o f the three journals), Academic Orientation, Lexis, Westlaw, judicial clerkships, and Sail Into Summer class, preparing students for their summer jobs. Exclusive of classes for credit, conducted 41 classes for 792 students and 45 tours for 586 students July 1997-June 1998 Web Publications. Joseph Luke published an Impeachment Guide on the Web (updating a previous Cornell print publication). The bi-weekly InSITE service o f legal Web sites annotations was expanded to include a searchable database and an electronic mailing list with over 1,000 email subscribers. Charlotte Bynum contributed many country and subject guides to the Legal Research Encyclopedia, for the benefit of faculty and students who want to be aware of Web resources for their topics. Intermediary pages were created for the ILO and ICJ Web pages 1.13 Organizing and delivering Electronic Information Sources. Started participating in Project Isaac, a virtual catalog of web sites, shared with other participants, including the University of Wisconsin s Scout Report, Lower Saxony State, and the University Library Gottingen Started cataloging electronic sources for the CUL Gateway. The law library Web files were migrated from the LII UNIX server to the Law School’s NT server \ \^ Promotion of Historical Materials. Exhibit at Alumni Reunion (June 1998), and at Advisory Council meeting (September 1998). Lectures and presentations at Alumni Reunion and Advisory Council (Sept. 1998) Analyzing the Foreign Law Collection. Foreign Law Inventory. Collection templates developed and data of thirty countries completed, and twenty in progress. The information collected will be used to make assessments and decisions about the collection with the law faculty (new purchases and possible cancellations), assist researchers with use of the collection, as well as present the information in appropriate ways on the Web


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