Law library unveils new Web site

The Cornell Law Library has launched a new Web site at http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library, with easier access to the resources and services of the library, as well as historical information about the Law Library itself.

The site can be navigated via two primary paths. There are "bridge pages" dedicated to students, faculty, alumni and visitors that bring together for easy access all the resources from the entire site that are most relevant to those individual audiences. On a separate menu, the site is divided into three main areas: Who We Are, providing staff information, policies, hours and history; What We Have, listing print and online resources; and What We Do, describing reference services, courses in legal research available to students and services for visitors.

Many resources are freely available to anyone visiting the site. For example, InSITE is a current awareness service that provides reviews of Web sites useful for legal research, written by professional law librarians. The Legal Research Engine is a gadget that provides easy access to authoritative legal research guides on any subject. The revamped Faculty Publications database provides citations and full-text links, where available, to the writings of the Law School's highly prolific faculty. Some resources, including high-quality subscription databases and collections of historical treatises, are available only to Law School students and faculty.

A research staff provides assistance to users ranging from students, faculty and alumni to local residents with legal problems and callers from around the world.

What We Have includes two online special collections: Liberian Law and the Donovan Nuremberg Trials Collection. The site also includes guides to other collections that researchers may use on request, including 19th Century Trials, the Chile Declassification Project, Scottsboro Trials, the papers of William P. and Adele Langston Rogers, Bennett Statutory Collection of U.S. historical laws and the Supreme Court Collection.

Questions and comments should be directed to Julie Jones, research attorney and lecturer in law, at jmj45@cornell.edu, or (607) 255-5858.

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