New Books @Schmid Law Library

New Books @Schmid Law Library as of May 22, 2012.  The link will direct you to the catalog record for availability, details and more info.  New books check out for two (2) weeks.

DOJ Civil Antitrust Practice and Procedure Manual by ABA Section of Antitrust Law, 2012 http://library.unl.edu/record=b4211757~S0

Find Info Like a Pro: Mining the Internet’s Publicly Available Resource for Investigative Research by Carole A. Levitt and Mark E. Rosch, 2010 http://library.unl.edu/record=b4211804~S0

Flying Solo: A Survival Guide for the Solo and Small Firm Lawyer, 4^th edited by K. William Gibson, 2005 http://library.unl.edu/record=b4211803~S0

Formulas for Calculating Damages by Mark S. Guralnick, 2012 http://library.unl.edu/record=b4211760~S0

Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform by David E. Bernstein, 2011  http://library.unl.edu/record=b4156679~S0

Why the Law is so Perverse by Leo Katz, 2011 http://library.unl.edu/record=b4178656~S0

John Cleese on Creativity

Did you see this?  Enjoy!

New Books @Schmid Law Library

New Books @Schmid Law Library as of May 4, 2012.  The link will direct you to the catalog record for availability, details and more info.  New books check out for two (2) weeks.

The Constitution of Religious Freedom: God, Politics, and the First Amendment by Dennis J. Goldford, 2012 http://library.unl.edu/record=b4208416~S0

“Partly Laws Common to All Mankind” Foreign Law in American Courts by Jeremy Waldron, 2012 http://library.unl.edu/record=b4211743~S0

Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: From Edison to the Internet by Peter Decherney, 2012 http://library.unl.edu/record=b4208359~S0

Nebraska Law Graduation

Toobin to Address Graduates at 2012 Commencement

Nebraska Law will hold its commencement on Saturday, May 5, 2012 at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.  The ceremony begins at 3:00 p.m., and doors open at 2:15 p.m.  Jeffrey Toobin, a staff writer for The New Yorker and senior analyst for CNN, will deliver the keynote address.  He is one of the most recognized legal journalists in the country.  His most recent book, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, was published by Doubleday and spent more than four months on the New York Times best-seller list and earned the 2008 J. Anthony Lukas Prize for Nonfiction from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.  The sequel, The Oath: The Obama White House v. the Supreme Court, will be published in September.  Toobin earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Commencement details from law.unl.edu

Schmid Law Library Summer 2012 Hours

While the first day of summer isn’t till June 20th, the library begins our annual Summer hours schedule on May 7, 2012.

May 7 – June 2
Sunday		Closed
Monday – Thursday		7:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Friday		7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Saturday		9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Memorial Day
Monday, May 28		Closed
1st & 2nd Summer Sessions, June 3 – August 11
Sunday		12:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Monday – Thursday		7:30 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Friday		7:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Saturday		9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Independence Day
Wednesday, July 4		Closed
Inter-session, August 12 – August 19
Sunday, August 12		Closed
Monday – Thursday		7:30 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Friday		7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Saturday		9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 19		11:00 a.m. – 12:30 a.m.

 

New Books @Schmid Law Library

New Books @Schmid Law Library as of April 23, 2012.  The link will direct you to the catalog record for availability, details and more info.  New books check out for two (2) weeks.

Reclaiming the Petition Clause: Seditious Libel, “Offensive” Protest, and the Right to Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances by Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr., 2012 http://library.unl.edu/record=b4208171~S0

Do the Crime, Do the Time: Juvenile Criminals and Adult Justice in the American Court System by G. Larry Mays & Rick Ruddell, 2012 http://library.unl.edu/record=b4208172~S0

Brandishing the First Amendment: Commercial Expression in America by Tamara R. Piety, 2012 http://library.unl.edu/record=b4205068~S0

Dancing Card Catalog

Did you see this?  A new use for a card catalog by Yale University.

Tweet Treats Are Back!

The UNL Law College Finals begin on Monday, April 23rd which means “Tweet Treats” starts on Monday, April 23rd too!

Remember how to play along?  Follow Schmid Law Library (@schmidlibrary) on Twitter each day during Finals (April 23rd – May 2nd), we’ll tweet a clue(s) to find the treat.  The first person to find the hidden item gets to enjoy a sweet treat.

Dont’ forget to use the library’s catalog when searching for titles or books by subject, or ask a friendly librarian for directions to specific library collections.  Let us know when you find a Tweet Treat.  Good luck on Finals!

 

Richard S. Harnsberger 1921-2012

In Memoriam

Richard S. Harnsberger

Cline Williams-Flavel A Wright Professor of Law Emeritus

December 14, 1921 – March 29, 2012

Services for Professor of Law Emeritus Richard S. Harnsberger will be 5 p.m. April 12 at the Hamann Auditorium, College of Law.  More information on Professor Harnsberger available at his NU Law College faculty page.

Happy National Library Week 2012

April 8-14 is National Library Week 2012 – check out your local library’s (public, academic, school) celebration or events.

What’s your favorite book?

Did you know that the below titles made the Top 10 list of banned books in 2011?  How many have you enjoyed?

1) ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle

2) The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa

3) The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins

4) My Mom’s Having A Baby! A Kid’s Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler

5) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie

6) Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

7) Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

8) What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones

9) Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar

10) To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee