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CONGRESS DIRECTS EPA TO RE-OPEN ITS LIBRARIES

Posted on February 15, 2008
Buried within the omnibus appropriations bill Congress sent at the end of last year to President Bush , there is significant relief for the beleaguered library network of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Congress ordered EPA to restore library services...

Amazing Database Of Federal Data - For Lawyers Too

Posted on February 14, 2008
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse and the TRACFED Data Warehouse by LINDA ROBERGE,SUSAN LONG,DAVID BURNHAM & PATRICIA HASSETT, Trends in Law Library Management and Technology, v.17, p.61-73 "Lawyers are ?word? people. They read and author complaints motions, opinions, etc...

Tips From HeinOnline for using Their Service

Posted on February 14, 2008
Recent HeinOnline Blog Postings of interest : Congressional Record Daily to Bound Volumes - Browse by month now available! Several of you have found the Congressional Record Daily to Bound Locator tool extremely helpful when looking for a page from...

Significance Of Recent NIH Research Deposit Law

Posted on February 13, 2008
In late December, a small part of the huge ?Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008?, required authors of NIH-funded (National Institutes of Health) research, to deposit a digital copy of their results within 12 months for inclusion in PubMed Central, a...

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Life & Death of DePaul Law Grad Remebered in Award

Posted on February 07, 2008
The family of 1965 DePaul law graduate, Allen J. Hoover, and his former law firm, Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer, have created an annual $5000 award for a DePaul law student, in his memory. As many of us can...

Professor Bassiouni On Panel to Address Ethics of IRAQ War

Posted on February 05, 2008
Please join us for a discussion of the ethical and religious dimensions of the ongoing war in Iraq. Together with a distinguished panel of scholars, we will consider how three major religious traditions respond to the complex moral questions raised...

Black Law Students Association Mock Trial Team Places In Competition

Posted on February 01, 2008
The College of Law is proud to announce that BLSA (Black Law Students Association) team members : Anisa Jones, Theodore Thomas, Takeia Johnson and Sharone Mitchell under the spectacular coaching of Professor Cynthia Roseberry competed recently in the Regional BLSA...

CIPLIT® Arts Law Colloquium

Posted on January 30, 2008
If the previous posting is of interest to you, so may this law school program : CIPLIT® Arts Law Colloquium - Law Enforcement and the Arts Speakers: Dr. Bonnie Magness-Gardiner, Program Manager, Art Theft Program, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...

Law Professor Gerstenblith Quoted in Stolen Antiquties Story

Posted on January 30, 2008
Federal government agents have conducted raids on four museums & an art gallery in southern California. The information from the search warrants indicates that these were the result of a five year undecover operation by the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement...

Afgan Student Sentenced to Death For Sharing Printouts Questioning Islam

Posted on January 23, 2008
A story about a trial in Afghanistan posted today on cnet News.com, indicates what a long way to go projects like our own IHRLI/ISISC Provincial Justice Initiative ( International Human Right Law Institute/International Institute of higher Studies in Criminal Sciences),...

Former Rinn Law Library Librarian Gets Presidential Service Award

Posted on January 21, 2008
Jim Goodridge was one of the Rinn Law Library's reference librarians for eleven years from 1989 to 2000.He was an excellent reference librarian who seemed to know most of the students by first name.Jim always had a strong service orientation....

DePaul Law Grad, Frank Clark, Very Involved With Local Charter School

Posted on January 18, 2008
The Rowe-Clark Math and Science Academy in West Humbolt Park is one of Chicago's Renaissance 2010 schools. The schools are given autonomy to create innovative learning environments using one of the following governance structures: charter, contract, or performance...

President's Book Club Discussion

Posted on January 15, 2008
Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas President?s Book Club Discussion The book "Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas", has been chosen as the winter selection for the President's Book Club. We will gather to discuss the...

Final LC Working Group Report Released

Posted on January 10, 2008
In November 2006, Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services at the Library of Congress, convened a Working Group to examine the future of bibliographic control in the 21st century. After holding three regional public hearings in the past year,to...

Martin Luther King Jr. Law School Program

Posted on January 09, 2008
[ Click on leaflet for bigger image ] Link for schedule of the days activities

Open-Source Search Engine, Wikia Search, Debuts

Posted on January 08, 2008
Yesterday, a new search engine was launched by Jim Wales the founder of Wikipedia. He wanted to develop a new model for search engines since as he says, ? I think we should be concerned about secret?proprietary software, a small...

Alumni Focus ? Thomas J. Filarski,(1986)

Posted on January 08, 2008
DePaul Law School alumnus, Thomas J. Filarski, has been named to the Board of Directors for 2008 of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the United States. Mr. Filarski, chair of the...

CIPLIT 3rd Annual Visiting Artist Program

Posted on January 08, 2008

Librarian Captures Coveted Couch Potato Title

Posted on January 04, 2008
A late-breaking story from the Atlanta Journal Constitution about the indurance of the long distance viewer : "NEW YORK (AP) ? A Manhattan librarian emerged as a champion couch potato after three rivals gave in to sleep deprivation or nature's...

Law Library of Congress Faces Funding Crunch

Posted on January 04, 2008
An article in the Nov. 15 issue of Library Journal reported on the testimony by AALL (American Association of Law Libraries) representative, Ann T. Fessenden, to the Committee on House Administration, regarding the precarious financial status of the Law Library...

The Bluebook Online From Cornell

Posted on December 14, 2007
From Scout Report: Basic Legal Citation http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/ For law students, learning about the world of legal citations is key. For many years, the standard reference work on legal citation was a manual known as "The Bluebook". This work has been...

Law Professor Kellman Among Six Experts Outlining Plan For Global Biosecurity

Posted on December 14, 2007
DePaul law Professor, Barry Kellman, was one of six internationally recognized experts who authored the document entitled, "Consensus Statement of Priority Actions for the Promotion of Global Biosecurity", which was the result of an international workshop in October, with the...

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