FREE CLOUD STORAGE!
Information at Noon, Monday October 27 in the Hamman Auditorium
UNL now provides all students with a generous 50Gb, and free Box account. To sign up for your Box.Net account, visit http://box.unl.edu/ The Law College IT Department is hosting a demonstration and Q&A session with a UNL Information Technology Services expert to help you get started and learn about this services features.
Mac Users: Exam4 Now Supports Yosemite (OSX 10.10)
We have word that Exam4 now supports OS X Yosemite. Feel free to upgrade.
Save the Forests!
We continue to recycle reams of paper in the printer labs each month. Students, please be careful about sending print jobs to the network printers!
The Bookeye is Upon You!
One of the library copiers has been replaced by a scanner, called a “Bookeye.” The Bookeye is a planetary scanner that allows you to scan books by laying them face up, making much better images of books and periodicals. It automatically creates PDF’s of the scanned images and gives you the option of either emailing the copies or saving them to a flash drive. It also includes optical character recognition (OCR), so you can scan your job into text. This capability is rudimentary and requires some cleanup, but it beats having to re-key materials that you wish to have in text format.
Schmid Law Library Facts and Features: Government Documents by Brian Striman
A democracy presupposes an informed citizenry. The Federal Depository Library Program is the way that the federal government ensures that its citizens are aware of government legislative, judicial, regulatory and investigative activity. Through this program, the federal government provides these materials to libraries for free. There are 47 libraries throughout the country that are designated as Regional Depositories, meaning that they receive every document published by the federal government at every level and on every imaginable topic, from maps, surveys and brochures, to House and Senate bills and judicial opinions and tax regulations. Love Library is a regional depository library. In addition to the Regional Depositories, there are over 1200 Depositories that receive selective portions of federal government output. The Schmid Law Library is a selective depositoty, meaning that we receive around 10% of government documents, primarily judicial, regulatory and legislative materials.
As a result of our being a Federal Depository we receive thousands of microfiche with House and Senate committee reports, hearings, data and reports from hundreds of federal agencies. Regulations galore, statues aplenty, and lots of decisions from federal courts of all kinds. Of course most of this stuff is now online with great websites like Thomas.gov and FDSys.gov, the Government Printing Office’s Federal Digital System. One unique, recently created resource by the Library of Congress is its Indigenous Law Portal. But for older resources that aren’t on the web or digitized anywhere, you’ll need to turn to larger depositories such as Love Library or large city public libraries.