Early Summer Hours: May 20 – May 31, 2013
Seven days a week: 9:00am – 10:00pm
Memorial Day, Monday, May 27th, 9:00am – 10:00pm
Summer Hours: June 1 – July 29, 2013
Sunday – Thursday: 9:00am – 12Midnight
Friday & Saturday: 9:00am – 10:00pm
Independence Day, Thursday, July 4th: 9:00am – 10:00pm
Late Summer Hours, July 30 – August 11, 2013
Sunday: 10:00am – 10:00pm
Monday – Saturday: 9:00am – 10:00pm
Have a great summer!
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When you are done with finals and need a night at home on the couch, look no further than the library’s collection of DVDs for a fun and low-cost movie night. We have many recent titles, including:
“Based on the bestselling book by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Too Big To Fail offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world’s economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.” – Amazon.com
“The landmark documentary that sparked an international movement to ‘Free the West Memphis Three’, PARADISE LOST investigates the gruesome 1993 murder of three eight-year-old boys and the three teenagers accused of killing them as part of a Satanic ritual. From real-life courtroom drama and clandestine jailhouse interviews to behind-the-scenes strategy meetings and intimate moments with grief-stricken families, acclaimed filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky were granted unprecedented access to all the players involved, capturing the events as they unfolded. REVELATIONS delves deeply into the shocking aftermath of the trials, updating the story seven years after the murders. With Echols on death row and Baldwin and Misskelley serving life sentences, PURGATORY picks up the story and reexamines the horrifying crime with fresh insights that only the passage of time can provide. Facts are reexamined, new evidence is revealed and new suspects are scrutinized.” – Amazon.com
“Stonewall Uprising explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. When police raided a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village the Stonewall Inn on June 28 1969 gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought back. As the streets of New York erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations the collective anger announced that the gay rights movement had arrived.” – Amazon.com
“Set in the high-stakes world of Wall Street, Margin Call is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment firm during the earliest hours of the 2008 financial crisis. When an entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as the firm’s employees must weigh whether to save their own company (and their jobs) at the risk of fleecing millions of investors.” – Amazon.com
“From Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (NO END IN SIGHT), comes INSIDE JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, INSIDE JOB traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.” – Amazon.com
Check one out today!
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Congratulations to our graduating students. Below are vendors’ access policies for use of their databases after graduation:
Bloomberg Law: Access for 6 months after graduation. Register here for a Bloomberg Law account, if you do not already have one. Enter your BLS email in the registration form.
Lexis: Access Lexis Advance through a law school account until July 31, 2013. Register here for a Lexis Advance law school account, if you do not already have one. Also, Lexis will email BLS graduates to describe its new Graduate ID program, which requires graduating students to register for a new ID that Lexis will provide via email in early July. Lexis states that the “new ID will be active until December 31, 2013 for educational, bar review and job search purposes only…Students cannot use this ID for commercial purposes.” Alternatively, graduating students who will be engaging in verifiable 501(c)(3) public interest work can register for the Lexis ASPIRE program. Lexis states that graduates may apply for either the Graduate ID or the ASPIRE ID (if eligible). Questions? Email marybeth.drain@lexisnexis.com
Westlaw Classic & WestlawNext: Access through November 2013, if graduating students register to extend their passwords. The extension form is posted on the main www.lawschool.westlaw.com homepage. Sign on to the site and select the “need Westlaw this summer” icon on the main page to complete the extension form. Additionally, graduates will have access to Westlaw’s job search databases for one year after graduation. Questions? Email Stefanie.efrati@thomsonreuters.com
Also, BLS alumni who visit Brooklyn Law School Library are welcome to use Lexis Academic to search news, U.S. federal and state cases, law review articles and company data. Finally, reference librarians can show you how to access free gateways to law such as the Federal Digital System, Justia and the Legal Information Institute.
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The Library staff wishes all students good luck on your exams and best wishes for an enjoyable and productive summer.
In the meantime, stop by the circulation desk at 12Noon every day this week for a chocolate break!
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The Library Staff wants to remind you to be considerate of your colleagues during the exam period. Please remember to hold quiet conversations in the vestibules and hallways, and to keep it to a minimum. Group study rooms are available for discussions. You can reserve group study rooms using the library’s online reservation system. Also, please do not bring food into the library. The smells are distracting to many students. Thank you and good luck on your finals.
*The image, which appears in this post, is courtesy of Binghamton University Libraries
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This April, members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are participating in consultations to choose a new Director-General of WTO. The final candidates for WTO Director-General are:
Mari Elka Pangestu (Indonesia)
Tim Groser (New Zealand)
Roberto Carvalho de Azevedo (Brazil)
Taeho Bark (Republic of Korea)
Herminio Blanco (Mexico)
One of these candidates will be the new leader of the WTO before the December 2013 WTO Ministerial Conference in Bali. The candidates’ statements to the WTO General Council and videos of their press conferences are available at: WTO members meet the DG candidates.
Three of the finalists (Pangestu, Groser & Bark) also answered questions posed by a policy center, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development.
Heads-up international trade researchers: a key enhancement is coming to TradeLawGuide. This database is a highly useful tool for identifying pertinent WTO agreements and jurisprudence. By summer 2013, there will be an annotated version of GATT 1994 available in TradeLawGuide. Through TradeLawGuide, one can search annotated WTO agreements (by article of the agreement or by keywords) to identify relevant WTO jurisprudence. One can then use TLG’s Jurisprudence Citator, review Dispute Settlement Body minutes, and scan pending WTO jurisprudence to complete the research process.
Feel free to ask me how to use TradeLawGuide and other WTO research tools.
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During the reading and exam period, you must make a reservation to use a library study room. Mandatory study room reservations will begin on Friday, April 26, 2013 at 8:00am; at that time all study rooms will be locked and you must go to the first floor circulation desk to charge out the key to the room at the time of your reservation. Please use the link to the study room reservations which may be found on the library homepage, under “Related Links.”
Study room policies:
• Study rooms are for the use of groups of two or more students.
• Study rooms may be reserved for the current day and two days ahead.
• Study rooms may be reserved for 30 minutes, one hour, two hours, three hours or four hours.
• Students are only permitted four hours of study room space per day per student.
• Instructions for making reservations and a list of rooms available are on the study room reservations page.
Library hours for the reading and exam period:
• Saturday, April 27 – Monday, May 13, 2013: 8:00am – 2:00am
• During the reading and exam period the circulation desk closes at 12Midnight.
• Tuesday, May 14th: 8:00am – 10:00pm
Reminders:
• Please limit all conversations in the library. Remember that your colleagues are studying too.
• There is no eating in the library. Please go to the student lounge or the dining hall for snacks and meals.
• Do not leave valuables unattended. If you step away from your study table or carrel, take anything of value to you with you.
Good luck on your exams and best wishes for a great summer!
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