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Library Policies- not all that bad
Mentalfloss.com, online purveyors in bizarre, quirky, and nerdy trivia, recently published an interesting library-themed blog list – 9 Very Specific Rules From Real Libraries. Looking beyond the unimaginative stock photo of a bun-sporting, cardigan-draped, grandma frames-spectacled, corrective shoes-hobbled, and eternally shush-ing librarian stereotype that alerts the reader, “this post is about libraries and the author […]
Hotmail Banned by CALI
August 23, 2012
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Students that have registered with CALI using a hotmail account will need to take additional steps to continue to access CALI exercises and other services. Additional information about this change as well directions for hotmail users can be found here. CALI is best known for their library of interactive, computer-based lessons covering 33 legal education subject […]
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Bar
July 24, 2012
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By Stephen Adams, 2012 Library GRA The law library is rather quiet today, because today is the first day of the two-day process that is the bar exam. All the folks that have been toiling away in the library with their BarBri and Kaplan materials are now taking what is quite possibly the biggest test […]
Offbeat Law Library Collections
July 9, 2012
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This year’s CALI Conference for Law School Computing was hosted at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in their beautiful new downtown facility located in the shadow of San Diego’s Gaslamp quarter. The building still had that new, technology-rich, Leeds-certified smell about it. Everything in the facility was brand spanking new…save a pair of 300-thousand […]
Laptop Anchors Installed
May 25, 2012
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In response to students’ requests the law library is in the process of installing laptop anchors on about half of its 113 student study carrels located throughout the law library’s lower and upper levels. These laptop anchors –essentially a hook fastened to the study carrels with an industrial adhesive and screws– allow students to secure […]
Just Something We Are Working On
April 12, 2012
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While I was walking through the library stacks yesterday I was thinking about the new building. I often think about the new building–specifically big beautiful windows. Yesterday was a little different. I was thinking about flexible furniture. This was because a student had dragged a two-top study table to the comfortable seating located near the […]
I’d like to buy the library a Coke.
January 18, 2012
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Not really. But you can buy yourself one with the arrival of the Law Library’s new Coke machine (not to be confused with a “New Coke” machine). That is right, we have a Coke machine in the Law Library. Students no longer have the procrastination tool of faking a cough and having to go to the […]
ALI Members at Georgia State Law
September 18, 2011
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Do you know what the American Law Institute (ALI) is and better yet do you know whom on the Georgia State Law faculty are members? First things first: as you remember from your first year legal bibliography class, the ALI is made up of 4000 lawyers, judges, and law professors of the highest qualifications. Through […]
The Real 8,000,000th
August 19, 2011
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Earlier this week the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted patent number 8,000,000 to Second Sight Medical Products Inc. for a device that helps people with degenerative vision problems to see better. It’s certainly a far cry from patent number one granted after the Patent Act of 1837 for enhancements to locomotives wheels. Now […]
Dean Johnson Inducted Into Law Librarian Hall of Fame
July 26, 2011
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With throngs of Georgia State University Law Librarian, both past and present, cheering in appreciation, Nancy Johnson was inducted into the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Hall of Fame at the 2011 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference. The Georgia State University Associate Dean for Library and Information Services and Professor of Law is part […]
February 11, 2013
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