DAVID C. SHAPIRO MEMORIAL LAW LIBRARY NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW POSITION: Reference and Electronic Technologies Librarian ACADEMIC RANK: Assistant Professor, Law Library DUTIES: Provide reference service to faculty, students and other library users. Teach legal research to students…
Posts Tagged ‘University’
Cornell Student Wants Unlimited Campus Internet Access
18
Aug
I read, with some amusement, a story in the Wired Campus blog at the Chronicle of Higher Education about Cornell University sophomore Christina Lara’s petition for the school to drop Internet bandwidth caps. Lara apparently goes beyond her allotted quota…
Friday Fun: Law Library GPS
12
Aug
Last Friday we featured a Duke Law Library educational filmstrip found in the school’s archives. This week’s law library orientation video is a more modern version by the University of Buffalo. No mention of “hippies” in this one. [JH]
More Law School Unhappiness
09
Aug
The saga of Widener School of Law faculty member Lawrence J. Connell has taken another turn, prompting the age old question, “What is truth?” Professor Connell has been suspended by the University for a year without pay for allegedly retaliating…
Book Review: Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage 3rd Edition
04
Aug
Oxford University Press sent a review copy of Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage 3d Edition recently. I’ve been paging through this marvelous resource regularly, which is not something I would normally do with a dictionary. In fact, calling the book…
Opening: Head of Reference Services, Yale Law
04
Aug
Head of Reference Services Lillian Goldman Law Library Yale Law School New Haven, CT Rank: Librarian II-III www.yale.edu/jobs Schedule: Full-time (37.5 hours); Standard Work Week (M-F, 8:30-5:00); evening and weekend hours may be required. Institutional Background Information. Yale University offers…
Chapter Three in the Continuing Baltimore Law Saga: "Junking the Stats" in Public "Cockfight" between UB President and Fired UB Law Dean
03
Aug
In yesterday’s ATL post about the University of Baltimore’s ouster of UB Law Dean Closius, Elis Mystal comments that “these kinds of ‘juking the stats’ discussions are usually handled behind closed doors, but now we all get to see it.”…
The Saga of Fired Baltimore Law Dean Continues: U of Baltimore Responds Publicly to Dean Phil Closius
02
Aug
All this sounds more than vaguely familiar to what happened at DePaul back in 2009 when that University’s Administration decided to air its dirty laundry publicly. The Baltimore Sun reports the following: The University of Baltimore’s president issued a sharp…
John Grisham’s The Confession Awarded the Harper Lee Prize for Fiction that Best Exemplifies the Role of Lawyers in Society
29
Jul
The Harper Lee Prize was created by the University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal last year to honor Lee for the enduring influence her To Kill a Mockingbird has had in the public perception of the…
Something New in the Academic Law Journal Genre: UDC-DCSL’s Illustrated Law Journal
29
Jul
The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law has launched the Illustrated Law Journal (ILJ) project “to use web technology and Free Culture licenses to generate meaningful visual illustrations of laws and legal concepts… .”…
