The Lexis-nexis.co.nz platform, which includes our subscriptions to the New Zealand Law Reports, Linxplus and Laws of New Zealand amongst other things, and the Lexis.com site will be unavailable in the evening of Sunday 14 March 2010 from 5pm to 12 midnight for system maintenance to accommodate the US switching into Daylight Savings Mode.
Lexis-Nexis and the Law Library apologises for any inconvenience this may create.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
What's on offer in the Law Library
Welcome! Welcome back.
What can we do for you? We're working on things that you can do to help yourself.
The programme so far looks a bit like this:
Tours
Each week day at 9.15, starting this Thursday (04March); plus Tuesday and Friday evenings at 6pm. A 20-minute tour of the Library, to help you discover the resources we have and the services we offer. Particularly useful for Torts students, who need to know some of this for the first Laws 498 assignment.
Tour-catalogue class combo
A brief introduction to the library catalogue (including finding Reserve lists, journals, and getting books from other libraries using BorrowDirect), followed by a tour of the Library. Particularly useful for first- and second-years who want to understand what we’ve got and how to get it; and for anyone else who hasn’t used the Law Library much yet. Allow about 45 minutes if you do both parts. We’ll start running these in the week starting 15 March. Details of times and places to come.
Database classes
Compulsory for Laws 498 students; optional for everyone else. An introduction to some of the key NZ legal databases – how and when to use them.
Sign up for these at the Desk. Note that tutorials run over a two-hours period.
Any questions?Just ask. And check our blog for updates.
Cheers, Carolyn
What can we do for you? We're working on things that you can do to help yourself.
The programme so far looks a bit like this:
Tours
Each week day at 9.15, starting this Thursday (04March); plus Tuesday and Friday evenings at 6pm. A 20-minute tour of the Library, to help you discover the resources we have and the services we offer. Particularly useful for Torts students, who need to know some of this for the first Laws 498 assignment.
Tour-catalogue class combo
A brief introduction to the library catalogue (including finding Reserve lists, journals, and getting books from other libraries using BorrowDirect), followed by a tour of the Library. Particularly useful for first- and second-years who want to understand what we’ve got and how to get it; and for anyone else who hasn’t used the Law Library much yet. Allow about 45 minutes if you do both parts. We’ll start running these in the week starting 15 March. Details of times and places to come.
Database classes
Compulsory for Laws 498 students; optional for everyone else. An introduction to some of the key NZ legal databases – how and when to use them.
Sign up for these at the Desk. Note that tutorials run over a two-hours period.
Any questions?Just ask. And check our blog for updates.
Cheers, Carolyn
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Welcome back to the Law Library
A new academic year is upon us, and we're looking forward to catching up with old acquaintances, and making some new ones.
Speaking of new, we have lots of new online resources to try out this year. For example, have a look at LexisNexis NZ, and see many familiar titles that have up until now, only been available from Reserve.
Not sure what is where and how? Come to the Law Library desk, and ask one of the friendly staff. We will be running tours and classes throughout the year.
Starting LAWS498? We'll be running special hands-on classes during semester 1, specifically tailored to you.
See you soon,
Kate
Speaking of new, we have lots of new online resources to try out this year. For example, have a look at LexisNexis NZ, and see many familiar titles that have up until now, only been available from Reserve.
Not sure what is where and how? Come to the Law Library desk, and ask one of the friendly staff. We will be running tours and classes throughout the year.
Starting LAWS498? We'll be running special hands-on classes during semester 1, specifically tailored to you.
See you soon,
Kate
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
free search engines, free content
The American Bar Association now has a Free Full-text Online Law Review/Law Journal Search Engine.
This will be good news if you don't have access to user-pays indexes like LegalTrac or LINX, especially if it's American material you're after - in which case, you'd also want to search Google Scholar Legal Opinions and Journals.
The WORLDLII Law Journals Project is doing similar things, and includes, amongst others, the Otago Law Review.
These are great - a free way to find free full-text articles.
This will be good news if you don't have access to user-pays indexes like LegalTrac or LINX, especially if it's American material you're after - in which case, you'd also want to search Google Scholar Legal Opinions and Journals.
The WORLDLII Law Journals Project is doing similar things, and includes, amongst others, the Otago Law Review.
These are great - a free way to find free full-text articles.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Wikipedia in court
Here's a link to the Law Librarian blog link to an article on citing Wikipedia in court. Interesting, but would you trust an article that you found via a blog via blog? Would you cite it in an assignment, or in court?
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