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Digital Life and Death
Recently, PBS’s Newshour ran a story, “What Happens to Our Digital Lives When We Die?” The story discussed the inability of a decedents’ next of kin, in most states, to access digital content after the account holder’s death. This means that photos, emails, social media posts, etc. may be lost to the parents, spouses, and children of the deceased. In addition …Read the Rest…
Federal Holidays
The 2013 Federal Holidays are set out on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Operating Status & Schedules page. These days are established by 5 U.S.C. 6103. The designation of a day as a “Federal Holiday” only establishes rights for federal employees. Executive Order: No. 11582 (Feb 11, 1971), 36 F.R. 2957, (Feb. 13, …Read the Rest…
Do you know how to find the law? Advanced Legal Research can help.
In the coming semester, the law librarians will participate in teaching an Advanced Legal Research course. The course is designed to provide in-depth exposure to the sources of law and legal commentary in American and other legal systems, and provide hands-on exposure to sophisticated methodologies for effective legal research in all media. An effective, sophisticated, …Read the Rest…
Have You Met Ernie?
The original version of this article, by Library Director Kathleen Carrick, was originally published in the September, 1989 issue of In Brief, a publication for alumni of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. When you were last in the law library, did you notice-in the first-floor reading room next to the elevator-a Rodin-like …Read the Rest…
Cite Checking – Finding Sources
Welcome back. The beginning of a new year involves cite checking assignments for many students. For those of you working on cite checking for student publications, faculty, and other projects, the library has a research guide to help you find sources, Sources for Student Publication Cite Checking. The “Sources for Student Publication Cite Checking” research guide …Read the Rest…
Mini-Lesson: Foreign Legal Research
How many sovereign jurisdictions (nation states or equivalent) are there? What constitutes a sovereign jurisdiction? Excellent questions. Free internet sites have some insight. Wikipedia’s List of Sovereign States has 207 entries as of April 11, 2012, including 193 member states of the United Nations. As of July 13, 2011, the Wikipedia editors were aware …Read the Rest…
Digital Life and Death
Recently, PBS’s Newshour ran a story, “What Happens to Our Digital Lives When We Die?” The story discussed the inability of a decedents’ next of kin, in most states, to access digital content after the account holder’s death. This means that photos, emails, social media posts, etc. may be lost to the parents, spouses, and children of the deceased. In addition …Read the Rest…
Federal Holidays
The 2013 Federal Holidays are set out on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Operating Status & Schedules page. These days are established by 5 U.S.C. 6103. The designation of a day as a “Federal Holiday” only establishes rights for federal employees. Executive Order: No. 11582 (Feb 11, 1971), 36 F.R. 2957, (Feb. 13, …Read the Rest…
Do you know how to find the law? Advanced Legal Research can help.
In the coming semester, the law librarians will participate in teaching an Advanced Legal Research course. The course is designed to provide in-depth exposure to the sources of law and legal commentary in American and other legal systems, and provide hands-on exposure to sophisticated methodologies for effective legal research in all media. An effective, sophisticated, …Read the Rest…
Have You Met Ernie?
The original version of this article, by Library Director Kathleen Carrick, was originally published in the September, 1989 issue of In Brief, a publication for alumni of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. When you were last in the law library, did you notice-in the first-floor reading room next to the elevator-a Rodin-like …Read the Rest…
Cite Checking – Finding Sources
Welcome back. The beginning of a new year involves cite checking assignments for many students. For those of you working on cite checking for student publications, faculty, and other projects, the library has a research guide to help you find sources, Sources for Student Publication Cite Checking. The “Sources for Student Publication Cite Checking” research guide …Read the Rest…
Mini-Lesson: Foreign Legal Research
How many sovereign jurisdictions (nation states or equivalent) are there? What constitutes a sovereign jurisdiction? Excellent questions. Free internet sites have some insight. Wikipedia’s List of Sovereign States has 207 entries as of April 11, 2012, including 193 member states of the United Nations. As of July 13, 2011, the Wikipedia editors were aware …Read the Rest…