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Exambank Online

While studying for finals, be sure and check out the MLIC's Exam databank. The database includes actual "retired" exams (pdf format) from a variety of courses and instructors. You can browse by professor or by course. (Sign in using your TU username/password) Dan Bell 11/28/2007

Featured Book

The MLIC is proud to announce our featured book for December is HEIST: Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, His Republican Allies, and the Buying of Washington, by Peter H. Stone. This new book is available in our leisure reading section on the first floor. (Link to publisher's website and excerpt). Perfect for your post-finals holiday reading. Faye Hadley 11/28/2007

Finals Season is Upon Us

It's finals season, and the MLIC can help you! The MLIC has a wide range of study aids to help you study for finals. All of these are available at the MLIC's circulation desk on reserve:

• Law School Finals Series, topics include: Contracts, Property, Crim. Pro, Const. Law, Civ Pro, Crim Law, Remedies, Corporations, Evidence, Wills & Trusts, Prof. Responsibility, Law School Essays, Torts, Family Law, & Conflicts.
• Law School Legends audio CDs, topics include: Exam Writing, Sales & Leases, Fed Income Tax, Future Interests, Admin Law, Comm. Paper, Conflicts, Remedies, Prof. Respons., Copyright, and Family Law.
• Sum & Substance Audio CDs, topics include: Torts, Const. Law, Wills, Sales, Securities, Corporations, Evidence, Antitrust, Fed. Tax, Contracts, Crim Pro, 1st Amend., Insurance, Conflicts, Crim Law, Agency, Property, and Jurisprudence.
• CALI - www.cali.org - CALI has over 500 interactive lessons available on every law school topic imaginable. Check your email for the registration code to access these lessons.

Dan Bell 11/1/7

MLIC Director Celebrates 21 years

MLIC Director & Professor Richard Ducey commemorated the very day of his 21st TU anniversary by posing with members of the Class of '77 who were back for Homecoming, Omelets with the Dean, and an MLIC tour on Saturday, October 13. The class members came from as far away as Florida, Alaska, Utah and Kansas City. The library had tripled in size since they were students 1973-77, and has been totally transformed. They unsuccessfully looked for the old metal carrels they remembered from their student days, and marveled at the new facility and its beautiful cherry wood carrels and natural lighting.

Foreign Law Guide now available Online

One of the most important tools in the MLIC Reference Collection for finding foreign primary law has long been Foreign Law, Current Sources of Codes and Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World by Thomas H. Reynolds and Arturo Flores. Turn to a foreign jurisdiction and this multi-volume resource provides bibliographic citations to the major codifications of law for that jurisdiction (Civil Code, Code of Civil Procedure, Commercial Code, Criminal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure) plus information on any official gazette, any official codifications, session laws, court reporters and Internet sources. There follows a subject arrangement that provides citations to different subject matter in the jurisdiction such as family law, bankruptcy, foreign trade, business partnerships.

Now the MLIC offers the electronic version of this valuable tool. The Foreign Law Guide will provide online access to the full text resources as available. Check it out!David Gay 10/9/2007

New Featured Book: Play Dead by David Rosenfelt

The MLIC is proud to announce our featured book for October is Play Dead, by David Rosenfelt. This new book is available in our leisure reading section on the first floor. (Link to publisher's website and excerpt)










Book Review: Lives of Lawyers Revisited: Transformation and Resilience in the Organizations of Practice -- by Michael J. Kelly (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2007)

About the book
The past two decades have seen profound changes in the legal profession. Lives of Lawyers Revisited extends Michael Kelly's work in the original Lives of Lawyers, offering unique insights into the nature of these changes, examined through stories of five extraordinarily varied law practices. By placing the spotlight on organizations as phenomena that generate their own logic and tensions, Lives of Lawyers Revisited speaks to the experience of many lawyers and anticipates important issues on the professional horizon.

Michael J. Kelly, former Dean of the University of Maryland School of Law, is Executive Director of the National Senior Citizens Law Center [NSCLC], a non-profit organization committed to advocacy on behalf of older Americans.

"In his two volumes of Lives of Lawyers, Michael Kelly explores legal ethics in an unusual, and unusually rewarding, way. Rather than focusing on rules or arguments, Kelly looks at the kind of lives lawyers lead. Ethics, Socrates thought, is about how to live one's life, and Kelly takes the Socratic question to heart. He explores the institutions lawyers work in and the choices they make. He writes with intelligence, great insight, and above all with heart. This is a superb book."

-Review by David Luban, Georgetown UniversityCourtney Selby 8/27/2007

NEW ACQUISITIONS IN LEISURE READING

The beginning of classes is coming soon, and it may be your last chance to relax before the semester gets crazy! What better way to do it than to pick up a little leisure reading? There are 53 new titles on the leisure reading shelves, located on the first floor of the MLIC next to the information desk. These new titles include:

• Supreme discomfort: the divided soul of Clarence Thomas, by Kevin Merida & Michael Fletcher
• Triple homicide, by Charles Hynes
• How to pay for your law degree, by Gail Ann Schlachter & R. David Weber
• Chambermaid, by Saira Rao
• The lie detectors: the history of an American obsession , by Ken Alder

*Courtney Selby 8/14/2007*

New Foreign and International Law Resources Database

HeinOnline is clearly one of the MLIC's most popular resources, and we've just subscribed to a new collection of materials that will give users yet another reason to love it.

The MLIC is please to announce the addition of the Foreign and International Law Resources Database (FILRD) to its already extensive HeinOnline digital collection. Currently featuring the first of several scheduled releases of primary and secondary source materials, the FILRD already contains over 500,000 fully-searchable PDF pages (nearly 675 volumes!). Some of the featured materials include:

• Annual Survey of International and Comparative Law
• Digest of United States Practice in International Law
• International Problems and Hague Conferences
• Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law
• Reports of International Arbitral Awards
• United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Yearbook

A comprehensive overview of the contents of this HeinOnline database can be found at Hein Online's site

If you would like to receive additional information or training for FILRD or any of the other HeinOnline collections, please contact Melanie Nelson by email or at 631-3458.

Summer Reading List for Incoming Students

The suggested summer reading list is up, you can see it at the Admissions Department's Incoming Students Page

MLIC Staff Member Employee of the Month

On Tuesday, June 12, Dean Butkin sent this message to the Law School: Dear TU Community- I'm delighted to announce that Theresa Eubanks of the MLIC staff has been named employee of the month for May 2007. In nominating Theresa, Rick Ducey, the Director of the MLIC, mentioned her "exceptionally dedicated" work and the professionalism she brings to Technical Services. Theresa is particularly responsive to "rush" requests from faculty, and her service also includes verifying the current status of URL's buried in library catalogs and cataloging of new serials and loose leafs.

Rick's nomination noted in particular her outstanding work ethic, attention to detail, consistently superb commitment to service, and her understanding of how patrons look for materials in the library, which enhances her ability to provide quality services to them. She is an "unsung hero" of the MLIC and law school staff.

One of the purposes of this award is to "sing" the praises of outstanding individuals whose contributions were previously "unsung." Please join us in congratulating Theresa on this much deserved recognition. Theresa is receiving this award just a few weeks after receiving her 20 year service award from TU, and we thank her for her years of loyal and dedicated service to our institution.

Report from the 20th Sovereignty Symposium

Native Resources Law Librarian, Faye Hadley moderated a panel Native Peoples and the Media at this year's Sovereignty Symposium. The panel included Chad Burris (TU Law Grad 2005 and Film Producer), Kalyn Free (Founder of INDN's List), Principal Chief Chad Smith (TU Law Grad), Cara Cowan Watts (Cherokee Tribal Council Member), Professor Joan Howland (University of Minnesota), Frank Marley(Attorney for the Seminole Tribe of Florida), and Victoria Santana (Reference Librarian, Oklahoma City University Law Library). The co-moderator of the panel was Justice Tom Colbert of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. The panel focused on how Natives are using various forms of media to promote tribal sovereignty, dispel stereotypes, and gain greater political voice. The panel was well-attended and apparently well-received. This marked the twentieth annual meeting of the Sovereingty Symposium. Faye Hadley 6/1/2007

MLIC Staff Members Recognized

On Friday, May 11th, 2007 six MLIC staff members were recognized at TU's employee appreciation picnic for length of service awards.
Receiving their 20 year award are: Professor Richard Ducey, Carol Arnold, Melanie Nelson and Theresa Eubanks (pictured second from left through second from right). Sherry Kuzmic (left) and David Gay (right) received their five year award.Lou Lindsey 5/9/2007

Free Disposable Earplugs

Is the slightest noise driving you nuts? Stop by the MLIC's circulation desk for a free set of disposable earplugs to get you through finals! Carol Arnold 4/27/2007











MLIC Capital Punishment Display --
In light of the number of cases before the United States Supreme Court this term dealing with the issues surrounding capital punishment (see the Death Penalty Information Center), the MLIC has placed a display on capital punishment in the United States at the entrance to the library. The display contains both print and multi-media sources and reflects the multiplicity of viewpoints related to this serious legal, political and philosophical matter. To see additional documents and information about the cases in front of the court this term, visit the Supreme Court web site. Courtney Selby 4/23/7

Another National Library Week Success!

This year's National Library Week competition drew a great crowd as students gathered around the giant jar of m&m's trying to guess the total number of candies inside. Of the 96 students guessing for the prize, one student came out on top. Cameron Ming's guess (1352) was within 31 of the actual number of m&m's (1321) in the jar, so he gets to take the entire jar home. Because he's a winner (and a good sport!) Cameron agreed to let us grab a publicity photo. Thanks to all who participated, and congratulations to Cameron! Courtney Selby 4/20/7

MLIC Acquires The Making of Modern Law Collection

Thomson Gale has digitized two entire legal treatise collections to make The Making of Modern Law possible. By digitizing the primary documents contained within Primary Source Microfilm's Nineteenth Century Legal Treatises and Twentieth Century Legal Treatises collections and adding the power of full-text searching, The Making of Modern Law brings nearly 10 million pages of legal history from America and Britain to researchers around the world in a matter of minutes. This archive - from one of the most important periods of legal development, is the world's most comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises anywhere. It allows for full text searching of more than 21,000 works from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more - all separated into 99 subject areas. Download a guide (pdf, 99KB] to all 99 Subject Areas. The Making of Modern Law is a coup for any library - legal or otherwise. 4/17/2007

Celebrate National Library Week 2007

Drop by the Circulation Desk and try your luck at guessing the number of M&Ms in the jar - on Friday, April 20th at 1:00pm the student with the guess closest to the actual number will win all of the M&Ms. Pick up a National Library Week bookmark while you're filling out your guess (please remember to include your name and e-mail on your guess slip). Thanks and have a great National Library Week!!!
Good luck on finals!
Your MLIC librarians

New Hein Online Content

Hein Online announces 20 new titles have been added to HeinOnline's Legal Classics Library for a total of 1,103; 11 new titles have been added to the Law Journals Library, while 65 journals have been updated, for a total of 1,023; Number of new pages added to all of HeinOnline with this release: Nearly 330,000. Total number of pages in Hein: 26,127,601. Hein Online is available to students, faculty and staff of the University of Tulsa, on or off campus. Dan Bell 3/30/2007

Online Resources Open House Winners

Here are the winners of the prizes that were given away at today's MLIC Online Open House:

1. Jason Arnold - Lexis (pen) Flash Drive
2. Jordan Isom - $25.00 gift certificate to TU Bookstore
3. Westlaw Flash Drives: Kiki Beets, Nathan Adams, Michael Doherty

You may pick up your prizes at the MLIC circulation desk.

Thanks to all who participated in the Online Open House - you are all winners to us! Thanks again! Cheers, The MLIC Librarians (Carol, Melanie, Dan, David, Mira, Karen, Rick, Lou & Faye (and Courtney, in absentia))

Online Resources Open House

The MLIC is pleased to announce the second annual Online Resources Open House, scheduled for Tuesday, March 20th from 11:00-1:00 in the pit. Stop in for free chips and salsa, as well as demonstrations on some of the MLIC's most powerful research resources that are sure to give you a leg-up in all your research needs. Visit only 2 of our demonstrations, and enter to win one of 3 great prizes!

• 1st prize: LexisNexis ink pen/flash drive. James Bond would be jealous!!
• 2nd prize: $25 gift certificate to the TU Bookstore
• 3rd prize: a Westlaw flash drive

DVD Documentary Series on Supreme Court Cases for Classroom Instruction

The MLIC is proud to announce our acquisition of a DVD series from Duke University Law School. The Distinctive Aspects of American Law Video Project has produced a collection of DVD documentaries dealing with a series of major Supreme Court cases. In addition, there is a wonderful companion website for the documentaries providing court documents, photographs, trailers for the documentaries, and other teaching tools designed to complement classroom instruction with regard to these cases, at http://www.distinctiveaspects.org.Courtney Selby 3/2/7

NEW ACQUISITIONS IN LEISURE READING

Spring Break is coming soon, and it may be your last chance to relax before the semester gets crazy! What better way to do it than to pick up a little leisure reading? There are 35 new titles on the leisure reading shelves, located on the first floor of the MLIC next to the information desk. These new titles include:

• When Darkness Falls, by James Grippando
• Limitations, by Scott Turow
• Stress Management for Lawyers: how to increase personal & professional satisfaction in the law, by Amiram Elwork
• Justice for All: Earl Warren and the nation he made, by Jim Newton
• Ticket scalping: an American history, 1850-2005, by Kerry Segrave

Civil Rights Display in the MLIC -- The MLIC is now featuring a small display in the entryway containing just a fraction of the civil rights and civil liberties materials contained in our library. If you have an interest in the legal issues surrounding civil rights and civil liberties, you may wish to take a look at our display and then browse the library catalog for additional reading and viewing.

New Live Chat Service

The MLIC now has a new way for you to contact librarians for all your research needs: live web chat. Check out directions at our Ask a Librarian page!1/26/7

Legislative History Pathfinder

Need to find the debate or procedural history of a law, or just what Congress intended when they passed it? Check out our new Legislative History Pathfinder by Librarian Melanie Nelson for every source in the MLIC and on the web for Legislative History. 1/9/7

MLIC Spring Hours

It may not feel like Spring yet, but the MLIC's Spring Semester hours start Sunday, January 7th. You can see our complete hours, with holiday exceptions, at our Hours page. 1/5/2007