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. 

Wanted -- Suggestions for DVD Titles

Two years ago, Elon law students and staff voted on the DVDs titles the library should purchase. Last spring we finished purchasing all the titles on the list. So its time to begin again.

The first step in the process is to nominate your favorite law related titles for consideration. [You might want to check out the catalog or DVDs for the titles we already own]

Step two the staff and students vote for their favorites.

Step three we announce the winners and as funds become available, begin to purchase the titles.

Please send us your nominations. Post a comment, drop a note in the suggestion box, e-mail your suggestions to Kate McLeod [ kmcleod4@elon.edu ] Nominations will close on September 15th.