Summer Research Access

Hello Students!  As a reminder, during the summer sessions student research access will change.  The following is a chart explaining access:

Database	Non-Profit	Profit (law firm, government, corporation)	Research Assistants (RAs) and Students Enrolled in Summer Classes
Bloomberg	Yes	Yes	Yes
Fastcase	Yes	Yes	Yes
LexisAdvance (only)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Westlaw and WestlawNext			Yes

All students will retain their access to Bloomberg and to Fastcase through the law school for the summer.  This access can be used while working for a non-profit organization, working for a profit organization, serving as RAs, or researching for summer classes. This year, LexisNexis is offering complete access to LexisAdvance over the summer for students as well.  Students can use their LexisAdvance accounts to research for any of the above purposes during the summer. 

However, Westlaw and WestlawNext continue their summer blackouts for students, unless they are serving as RAs for the summer or they are enrolled in summer classes at the law school.  Please remember, if you are a RA and/or enrolled in summer classes and you work for either a non-profit or profit organization over the summer, you cannot use your Westlaw access for work purposes.  Westlaw and WestlawNext use is limited to research regarding the RA position and class work only. 

Happy researching!

Vote for your favorite DVD,

In what has become an annual event, it is time to let your voice be heard on how the library fine money is going to be spent this year.  For those new to Elon Law, or just don't know what I'm talking about, the library overdue fines are used to purchase two types of material for the libary:  Study Aids and law related DVDs.

To nominate a DVD for inclusion in the vote, write a comment which includes the title and an explantion of how the DVD is law related. Nominations will be open until October 15th.

After this, if we get enough qualified nominations, a survey will be distributed and all students will have an opportunity to vote for their top 5 picks. You may ask what is qualified?  Well the material is not quaified: if we already own the DVD, if it has no relationship to law, or it is not currenltly available.  As a reference point, stop by the DVD collection behind the Reference Desk to check out the titles we alreadyown.  At the end of the year, we will purchase the DVDs in order of preference until the fine money is exhausted.

What's new in the Law Library? -- Scan to e-mail!

One of the most requested services was the ability to e-mail the scanned material directly.  However, the only scanner was the Richo which only scans to flash drives and memory card.  This situation change today.

Meet Zeta.  Zeta was installed today.  It will e-mail your scans or save them to a flash drive, it even will use the Lexis Flash Drives. 

This sleek, quick book up scanner is located in the copy room next to the circulation desk.

[For those who need a sheet fed scanner the Richo is still available.]

New Acquisitions - March 2012

The list of new books and other materials for March 2012 is up on the website. Click here for details.

Spring Break Hours

The library will be observing an altered schedule for the week of spring break. 

March 17-18 (Sat-Sun): Library is Closed

March 19-22 (Mon-Thur): Library closes at 9:00pm each day.

March 23 (Fri): Library closes at 6:00pm.

The Reference Desk will also be closed March 22 and 23 while the reference librarians attend a conference.

New Library Materials - February 2012

The list of newly acquired library materials for the month of February 2012 is now online. Please click here for more information.

Digsby Technical Problems

The law library's IM service, Digsby, is having some intermittent connection problems. Often when the staff is online, it will show that they are offline. If you need reference assistance and find that Digsby gives an "offline" status, please contact the reference staff by email or phone instead. We are working on finding a solution to this problem as soon as possible.

UPDATE (11/11/2011): Please make sure you are using the latest version of Internet Explorer or Firefox. It seems that in most cases, the newest browsers are not having these technical issues.