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Southeastern Law Librarian Fall 2008, Seaall

Newsletters

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Bluebook, Citations, And All That Jazz, Frederick W. Dingledy

Library Staff Publications

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The Missing Lawyering Skill, Richard Leiter

Marvin and Virginia Schmid Law Library: Faculty Publications

Educating Lawyers, a new book from the Carnegie Foundation, analyzes our modern system of legal education, and, in some measure, finds it wanting. The authors set out to evaluate legal education's response to decades old criticisms that it fails t teach lawyering skills and legal ethics.

Southeastern Law Librarian Summer 2008, Seaall

Newsletters

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What's In A Name? A Gen Xer And Gen Yer Explore What It Means To Be Members Of Their Generations In The Workplace, Lauren M. Collins, Elizabeth A. Yates

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

In the NextGen Librarian's Survival Guide by Rachel Singer Gordon, the author cites several reasons this time is different than times before in librarianship. Those that are most relevant to law librarianship include:

• Flattening workplace hierarchies and participative management increase the input of newer librarians in workplace decision making

• New technologies require changing skills that affect attitudes toward the integration of those technologies into our daily work

• Outside pressures, such as the prevalence of the Internet, impose a need for librarians to continually prove our relevance and improve relations with younger patrons

• The much talked about …

Southeastern Law Librarian Spring 2008, Seaall

Newsletters

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Letter To Jeff Sessions, January 25, 2008, Kenneth Hirsh

Government Relations Committee

A letter from Kenneth Hirsh to the Honorable Jeff Sessions asking Sessions to lift the hold on the "Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007" (H.R. 1225).

Letter To Mary Landrieu, January 22, 2008, Kenneth Hirsh

Government Relations Committee

A letter from Kenneth Hirsh to the Honorable Mary Landrieu asking Landrieu to consider co-sponsoring the Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007 (S. 886).

Southeastern Law Librarian Winter 2008, Seaall

Newsletters

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A New Library For America's Oldest Law School, Paul Hellyer, James S. Heller

Library Staff Publications

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A Tribute To Robert L. Oakley, James S. Heller

Library Staff Publications

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Law Librarian, J.D. Or Not J.D.?, Mary Whisner

Librarians' Articles

Ms. Whisner considers whether and how a law degree helps her in her job as a law librarian

Cyberlaws And Cybercafés: Analysis Of Operational Legislation In Some Commonwealth Jurisdictions And The United States, Yemisi Dina

Librarian Publications & Presentations

This chapter will discuss the existing cyber laws in some commonwealth countries and the United States. It compares the various definitions accorded to cyber crimes in these countries. It examines and discusses when cyber crime occurs in the various jurisdictions regardless of where it originates, the laws that apply to pornographv, the significance of jurisdiction for Internet criminals in all these countries, as well as when cybercafe operators are liable in cyber related crimes.

Six Steps To A Smaller World: Finding International Law From Your Desktop, Jennifer Sekula

Library Staff Publications

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Southeastern Law Librarian Fall 2007, Seaall

Newsletters

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Creating Online Tutorials: Five Lessons Learned, Lauren M. Collins

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

In the fall of 2005, two librarians, a legal research and writing program director, and an instructional technologist at Wayne State University received a grant to create online tutorials introducing novices to the basics of legal research. Tutorials were planned on subjects that the library and the legal research and writing program had traditionally covered jointly via library workshops, coordinated with classroom instruction for first-year law students. Since the mission of the law library is to support campus-wide activity and to assist members of the general public with legal research needs, the content of the tutorials was designed to serve …

What To Count, What To Report: The Revised Aba Annual Questionnaire (Aall Program Report), Ellen T. Mcgrath

Law Librarian Other Scholarship

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Southeastern Law Librarian Summer 2007, Seaall

Newsletters

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Letter To Robert Byrd, May 22, 2007, Kenneth Hirsh

Government Relations Committee

A letter from Kenneth Hirsh to the Honorable Robert C. Byrd asking Byrd to support the FY 2008 appropriations request of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).

Letter To Thad Cochran, May 22, 2007, Kenneth Hirsh

Government Relations Committee

A letter from Kenneth Hirsh to the Honorable Thad Cochran asking Cochran to support the FY 2008 appropriations request of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).

Letter To Debbie Wasserman Schultz, May 22, 2007, Kenneth Hirsh

Government Relations Committee

A letter from Kenneth Hirsh to the Honorable Debbie Wasserman Schultz asking Schultz to support the FY 2008 appropriations request of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).

Letter To Mary Landrieu, May 17, 2007, Kenneth Hirsh

Government Relations Committee

A letter from Kenneth Hirsh to the Honorable Mary Landrieu asking Landrieu to support the FY 2008 appropriations request of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO).

Aall Statement In Support Of The U.S. Government Printing Office, May 1, 2007, Mary Alice Baish

Government Relations Committee

A statement from Mary Baish, Associate Washington Affairs Representative for the American Association of Law Libraries, on a FY 2008 appropriations request from the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO). This statement was organized with materials from SEAALL's Government Relations Committee.

Email To Sally Wambold Regarding Thank You Letters Received After Assisting Libraries Affected By Hurricanes, April 27, 2007, Jack Bissett

Correspondence

An email from Jack Bissett to Sally Wambold on the receipt of thank you letters from libraries SEAALL donated money to after the libraries were affected by hurricanes.

Southeastern Law Librarian Spring 2007, Seaall

Newsletters

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Letter To Sally Wambold Regarding Thank You Letters Received After Assisting Libraries Affected By Hurricanes, March 12, 2007, Jack Bissett

Correspondence

A letter from Jack Bissett to Sally Wambold enclosing thank you letters from libraries SEAALL donated money to after the libraries were affected by hurricanes.

Use Of The Elizabeth Moys Classification Scheme For Legal Materials In The Caribbean, Janice A. Modeste, Yemisi Dina

Librarian Publications & Presentations

This chapter will give an historical background and account of the use of the Elizabeth Moys Classification Scheme in law libraries in the Caribbean. A questionnaire was administered to librarians and library staff of law libraries. Twenty-four questionnaire responses were received from participants. One of the results of the study is the suggestion that a separate number should be assigned for the entire Caribbean in the Moys Classification scheme because of the problems being encountered by librarians in assigning numbers.

Law And Heidegger’S Question Concerning Technology: Prolegomenon To Future Law Librarianship, Paul D. Callister

Faculty Works

Following World War II, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger offered one of the most potent criticisms of technology and modern life. His nightmare is a world whose essence has been reduced to the functional equivalent of a giant gasoline station, an energy source for modern technology and industry. "This relation of man to the world [is] in principle a technical one . . . [It is] altogether alien to former ages and histories. For Heidegger, the problem is not technology itself, but the technical mode of thinking that has accompanied it." Such a viewpoint of the world is a useful …

Southeastern Law Librarian Winter 2007, Seaall

Newsletters

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Memorial: Viola A. Bird (1905-2007), Penny A. Hazelton

Librarians' Articles

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