First, off, from all of us in the library, welcome back! We look forward to serving you all this year. As always, please let me (Richard Leiter, Director) or Sandy Placzek (Associate Director) know if there are ways that we can improve your library experience. Our doors are always open, and we aim to please....
News
There are two notable changes from over the summer. First, the Union Bank Computer Lab has been converted into a seminar room and several classes have been scheduled to meet in there Fall semester. This means increased traffic and noise on the south side of the library, so we ask your cooperation in keeping the noise down and if you are in classes in the new room 131, please keep the door closed.
The second change is that the printing work station for managing your printing account has moved to the Printing Center adjacent to the elevators.
Less notable, but, important nonetheless, is that Westlaw has announced it’s intention to discontinue offline printing at the end of this year. This means that printing will cost real money next year, and, after you graduate! It’s time to begin thinking about reducing the amount of printing you do for all purposes, including email, papers, outlines, as well as printing research results. There are two reasons for the change: they’re saving themselves money and they’re encouraging you to move your reading habits to a digital platform. A reminder, this year you have 250 pages of “free” printing (it costs the law library) per semester, per year. If you are a research assistant, please carefully keep track of the printing that you do for your professor. That amount will not be deducted from your personal printing account. We will need some form of documentation for this work, as it will ultimately be charged to your professor.
Audio Visual Needs and Requests
If you need classroom technology for any reason, please let us know as far ahead of time as possible by using this link on our website. http://law.unl.edu/library/info/avreq/
‘Any reason,’ for these purposes means if you, or your organization has a special guest or speaker who wants to use technology in the classroom, or if you are making a presentation in class, please let us know in advance and we’ll be sure that everything is working and set up for you.
Bloomberg Law for 2 & 3L’s
A powerful new player in the online legal research world is Bloomberg Law, a service that’s related to Bloomberg Financial and Bloomberg News services, and, yes to the mayor of New York. At the moment, the main distinction between Bloomberg, or BLAW, is that they encourage you to use your academic password at work while clerking and give you access for six months after graduation. The service also features access to many court documents and the research files of many of the top 100 US law firms.
To get access to BLAW, please a librarian about getting a password. A word of caution, you will need an email address that ends with “unl.edu” in order to register.
Library Hours
Schmid Law Library Fall 2012 Hours
Regular Hours:
Sunday
11:00 am - 12:30 am
Mon - Thurs
7:30 am - 12:30 am
Friday
7:30 am - 10:00 pm
Saturday
9:00 am - 10:00 pm
Labor Day Weekend
Friday
Aug. 31
7:30 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday
Sept. 1
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday
Sept. 2
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Monday
Sept. 3
9:00 am - 12:30 am