15 August 2011
Quiet Study Room Progress
12 August 2011
Hunter’s Query’s New Look
After being in existence for a little more than 3 years now, we've decided to give this blog a new look. (Aside: 3 years?! That makes me feel old.) We hope you like …
11 August 2011
CALI Upgrades
Any of you who have run CALI lessons have learned that they can be quite useful for learning or reviewing subjects for your classes. The Law Library's subscription to CALI …
09 August 2011
Title 51
One of the facts about the United States Code that you may or may not remember from your legal research class is that it has 50 titles. That's a fact that's been repeated to law students …
03 August 2011
Debt Ceiling Bill and GPO
After all the discussion and debate, a debt ceiling deal was finally reached earlier this week. The bill passed into law is known as the Budget Control Act of 2011. It's useful to note …
01 August 2011
New U.S. Code Site
Last week, Robert Ambrogi reported that the Office of Law Revision Council, who has responsiblity for preparing and publishing the U.S. Code, recently released a new official site for the U.S. Code. The site is currently in …
28 July 2011
Drexel Law Library
Every summer many of the law librarians from BYU attend a conference put on by the American Association of Law Libraries. This year the conference was in Philadelphia and it was my first time visiting that …
20 July 2011
History of International Law
HeinOnline is one of our favorite resources here in the law library. Most law students know it as the place to get pdf versions of law reviews and journals, but it's much more than …
18 July 2011
The Heart of the Law School
Beatrice A. Tice has a nice essay in the U.C. Irvine Law Review titled The Academic Law Library in the 21st Century: Still the Heart of the Law School. Tice, the Associate Dean for …
15 July 2011
Law Library Construction
Earlier in the week I tweeted links to a few videos (here and here) showing some of the law school's construction projects going on this summer. Here in the law library we have some of …
13 July 2011
Subject Guides
There is so much information out there (legal and otherwise) that it's nice to get some tips on where to start. That's where librarians come in. Here at the BYU law library, we …
11 July 2011
BYU Law Library on Twitter
The BYU Law Library is now on Twitter. Follow us @BYUlawlibrary to keep up to date with our blog, Hunter's Query, as well as other goings on here in the law library.
05 July 2011
Crime Statistics
One of the great things about being a law librarian is discovering new and useful information. Recently, while researching some criminal law and procedure issues, I came across the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports. The …
30 June 2011
SCOTUS Stats
If you weren't one already, law school has a way of turning students into Supreme Court watchers. Now that the most recent term is over, SCOTUSblog (which all law students should become familiar with) …
28 June 2011
Fair Trade and Child Labor
Professor Shima Baradaran has recently posted one of her newest articles, Fair Trade and Child Labor, to SSRN. This article was co-authored with Stephanie Barclay and will be published in the Columbia Human Rights Law …
24 June 2011
Vendor-neutral Citation
I can't say I love legal citation. I understand why we have it and it's useful to me when I want to look up what's being cited, but some of the rules frustrate …
20 June 2011
Summer Research Success
Law students are now well into their summer jobs and externships and we hope it's going well. Don't forget the law library is still around to help if you get stuck, so don't …
14 June 2011