Classes have started and On Campus Interviews have as well. Every year interviews seem to get earlier and earlier. Most, if not all, of the OCIs take place in the library's study rooms, so we get the chance of seeing many of …
A new semester is about to begin, so it's time to take a look at changes in legal research. The biggest change is the new version of LexisNexis that our students and faculty will now have access to: Lexis Advance. Lexis Advance …
Orientation has officially begun and the Law Library wants to take part in welcoming the class of 2014. We've met a few of you and we look forward to meeting all of you over the next few months. We hope you'll find …
One of the things we've added this summer is new scanners. There are two near the reference desk on the main floor and another one near the reference desk on the 3d floor. These scanners are better for scanning books and are …
As we count down the days until classes begin we wanted to give you another update on our Quiet Study Room that has been in the works since you've been away. This new room is located in the Northeast corner of the …
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 the new look, but we especially hope you continue …
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 gives students and faculty access to over 800 interactive, …
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 for 83 years. Well, not anymore. Late last year …
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 that the authenticated version of the bill and others …
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 Beta, but from what I've seen so far it …
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 historic city. Besides the fact that the heat index …
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 that. The Law Library subscribes to a number of …
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 Library and Information Services at U.C. Irvine School of …
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 our own construction going on that I thought you …
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 do our best to help you know where to …
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.
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 UCR has all kinds of different annual statistics on …
