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The eagerly awaited Chancellor Eric Fingerhut’s Strategic Plan for Higher Education 2008-2017 ( Executive Summary ) and the Board of Regents’ Report on the Condition of Higher Education in Ohio: Meeting the State’s Future Needs ( Executive Summary ) are now available. Both were issued March 31, 2008. Planning within and among Ohio's colleges, universities, community colleges, technical colleges, K-12 education, the business community and government can move on to the next planning stages of this major initiative.

Baseball is back, which brings more purpose to all of our lives. Well, maybe just mine. Why not take a seventh inning stretch and look at some of the interesting materials the law library has to offer involving our nation’s pastime. Legal Issues in Professional Baseball addresses topics ranging from doping to partnership bargaining. KF 3989 .A75 L44 2005 . Baseball is also the leader in upsetting its fan base with repeated labor strikes. Let’s turn that anger into knowledge with these fine resources: Labor and Capital in 19th Century Baseball GV 875 .A1 G45 2006,The Imperfect Diamond: A History of Baseball's Labor Wars GV 880.15 .L69 1991, and For It's One, Two, Three, Four Strikes You're Out at the Owners' Ball Game GV 880.15 .M35 2001. I recommend the last book mentioned as it details the 3 most recent work stoppages and due to its having a hilarious picture on page 188. (More)

More interesting than the annual U.S. News and World Report law school rankings is the constant controversy surrounding them. See Joe Hodnicki’s US News Law School Rankings: Why March Madness Started Early This Year in the Legal Academy for a great summary of 2008’s issues. And, see The Rankings Czar, the ABA Journal cover story interview with Bob Morse, creator of the US News ranking system. Leaks notwithstanding, the rankings will be officially released tomorrow.

Student Lawyer is an ABA-published magazine for law students that comes included with an annual membership in the ABA Law Student Division. It’s also available in the Library – most recent issues behind the Information Services Desk.

The magazine frequently runs articles on hot practice areas. If you’re curious about any of these areas, or just trying to decide on a future career focus, these articles might provide some insight.

Flipping through the last couple months of Student Lawyer, the hottest practice areas covered are:

• Real estate
• Animal law
• Elder law
• Biomedical/IP/health
• Pro bono
• Immigration
• Court jobs
• Labor and employment

Just in time for Spring...a recent addition to the C-M Law Library, The Little Green Book of Golf Law by John H. Minan. The book takes you through 19 holes of golf with a legal bent, such as golf course liability to a golfer and patent protection of the golf ball design to name a few.. You can find the book on our atrium level, KF 3989 .A7 M56 2007.
Thanks to Jon Elias for his input.

Here's a fun way to stay informed on issues the American Civil Liberties Union is involved with, from banned books to racial profiling.. Check out Civil Discourse, a biweekly comic from the ACLU. Click on the Learn More link above each comic to find out about legal cases and current news.

Professor Michael Hunter Schwartz, of Washburn School of Law, is searching for the Best Law Professor in America. His goals, in addition to finding the best professors, are to compile the various teaching strategies of the nominees and to share their strategies. Professor Schwartz's findings will be published in his forthcoming book, What the Best Law Teachers Do, due in 2011. Nominate a professor and let Professor Schwartz know what great professors we have at C-M.

Ann C. McGinley, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, and William S. Boyd Professor of Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, speaks on this topic Wednesday, March 26, 2008, at 5 p.m. Moot Court Room. She is the 2008 Littler Mendelson Employment and Labor Law Speaker Series speaker. See Announcement; Her UNLV Faculty Page

So what’s new in Vegas? Especially in the casinos and related to employment law? Here’s our opportunity to find out – starting with several of our speaker’s articles:

▪ Babes and Beefcake: Exclusive Hiring Arrangements and Sexy Dress Codes, 14 Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy 257 (2007) via HeinOnline
▪ Harassing “Girls” at the Hard Rock: Masculinities in Sexualized Environments, 2007 University of Illinois Law Review 1229 via HeinOnline
▪ Harassment of Sex(y) Workers: Applying Title VII to Sexualized Industries (Sex for Sale Symposium) 18 Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 65 (2006) via HeinOnline
▪ Masculinities at Work, 83 Oregon Law Review 359 (2004) via HeinOnline

Other articles by Dean McGinley include:

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Vault has entered the foray of law school rankings. In their Top 25 Law School rankings, they surveyed 100 hiring partners, associate interviewers and recruiters from big firms across the country on which law schools best prepare their students for the law firm environment. Among other things, the people surveyed were asked to consider: research and writing skills, knowledge pertaining to practice areas and knowledge of legal doctrine. Abovethelaw.com compares Vault's rankings with the 2007 ranking of US News & World Report.

The Justice Department approved the merger of satellite radio networks, XM and Sirius, making way for what some say is a de facto monopoly on satellite radio services. The Antitrust Division of the Justice Department does not believe that the merger would hurt consumers' price-wise or create a monopoly. They suggest other alternatives, such as iPod and HD radio, as other viable options for consumers. The FCC still has to hand down their decision on the matter. Some consumer groups and Democratic politicians are opposed to the merger, stating that the merger in fact creates a satellite monopoly. Check out this post on the BetaNews blog.

Three Mississippi state representatives sponsored a bill that would have prohibited restaurants from serving obese people. The legislators never intended the bill to pass, they just wanted to raise awareness about obesity. For the story, go to AELR Blog, "Proposed Mississippi Law to Target the Obese is a Farce", Mar. 21, 2007. The Mississippi Legislature's website shows that HB 282 bill died in committee.

When writing your papers, don't forget about WestCheck and Shepard's Brief Suite. Both of these Shepardize or Keycite all of the cites in a document you upload.

Shepard's Brief Suite also ensures the citations are in correct Bluebook format and constructs a Tables of Authorities. It checks quotations to make sure they conform to the actual opinion. You will need to download the Brief Suite software on your computer. More information on this product is available via the Lexis Law School page, click on download tools, then click on cite checking.

You do not need to download Lexis BriefCheck. BriefCheck will verify citations and quotes and runs Shepards, but does not check for Bluebook form or generate a Table of Authorities. Access it from the Lexis Law School page, click on download tools, then click on cite checking.

You do not need to download WestCheck, which will pull keycites and Westlaw tables of authorities for all the citations in your paper. There is a link to WestCheck on the Westlaw Law School page.

For more information, please see our Citation Checking Guide.

Google Scholar has now started indexing articles from Hein On Line. Hein On Line has one of the largest on-line collections of law review articles. From Google Scholar, you can search various topics using numerous academic databases that may not normally appear using 'regular' Google. Google Scholar results are ranked by the number of hits on the search terms, the author, publication, and how often it has been cited in other scholarly works. Of course, using the advanced search option will get you more precise results. Please keep in mind, Google Scholar does not link to Hein On Line full text. Test this feature by searching for some of our faculty and finding their recent publications. Thanks to Wisblawg.

If you were lucky to land a summer associate job, you can expect that the bar to measure your performance is higher than ever. According to an article in the National Law Journal, summer hiring for the 2008 season is down from last year, reflecting the declining economy, and the number of offers firms make may follow the trend. Bruce Elvin, associate dean at Duke Law School and director of career services comments: “Doing good work and behaving appropriately will be more important than ever."

For instructions on how to access other National Law Journal articles, faculty and students should see the Law Libray's Electronic Resources Page.

In a recent post, the Friends: Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services blog asks readers what are their favorite library-related Facebook apps and starts off the discussion with a list of forty-odd apps. Three of my personal favorites – JSTOR Search, WorldCat and Visual Bookshelf – made the list.

Libraries are expanding their reach and starting to connect with users through Facebook. Next time you log on, check out the Cleveland State University Library’s page with photos, blog, and general library info.

Recently, the IntLawGrrls blog featured Prof. Mary Ellen O’Connell’s observations on the anniversary of the Iraq invasion, who notes that “[f]ive years on, the most tangible lesson of Iraq is that our nation ignores international law at its peril.” Prof. O’Connell points out that the U.S. has ignored provisions of the U.N. Charter on the use of force, as well as the Geneva Conventions on the humane treatment of detainees. Full post here. Prof. O’Connell also has an op-ed on the topic at Jurist.

The Scotus Wiki has pages for each Supreme Court case, starting in 2007. See case index 07 , case index 08. Multiple authors quickly post documents, analysis, video and podcasts pertaining to the cases. There is also information on Petitions to Watch.You can set up an email alert for pending cases using the Watchlist.

The Wiki is brought to you by the authors of the Scotus Blog. Currently, only authorized individuals can edit pages. In the future, everyone may be able to participate, presumably with some moderation by the Scotus folks. For more information, read About the Scotus Wiki. The Scotus Wiki was brought to my attention by attorney Jack Sargent, author of EEO/iNews. Thanks, Jack!

Don't forget about BNA's U.S. Law Week/Supreme Court Today,
another excellent source for information on new Supreme Court cases.

Eric Fingerhut, State Higher Education Chancellor, has decided against merging, Cleveland State University and the University of Akron for the time being. In its place, he has asked each school to focus on creating centers of excellence, something that all Ohio public colleges must do within his 10-year plan. His decision was based on the lack of will, not only by the universities, but also by business and civic leaders. Progress will be gauged each year at an annual meeting with the leaders of the 4 public universities. However, if he does not see progress, he will reevaluate his strategy. Chancellor Fingerhut discussed the merger issue yesterday, at the Akron Roundtable. Listen to an audio of his speech. Later this month the Ohio Board of Regents will issue their report on the condition of higher education and separately, Chancellor Fingerhut will release his strategic plan and goals for the University system over the next 10 years.

The Kyoto Protocol to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change is due to expire in 2012 and delegates have met for an international conference in Bali to discuss plans for next major climate change agreement. More information is available on the UN FCCC website and in a Special Report in the BNA Environment Reporter.

Being a signatory, but not having ratified Kyoto, the United States is not among the 176 state parties to the treaty. Complete treaty status information, including all state parties with ratification dates is available through our online version of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General.

Bluebooks dating from 1926 to 1991 are available for free on the Bluebook website. They appear to take a while to download. A more up-to-date free source for citation information, although not as comprehensive, is Basic Legal Citation by the Legal Information Institute. LII's information is keyed to the most recent edition of the Bluebook, published in 2005. Thanks to TVC Alert.

It’s a longstanding tradition to find personal knickknacks like family photos, vacation snapshots, souvenirs, posters, paper airplanes, signed baseballs, fuzzy dice – you name it – in professors’ office space. These precious artifacts of humanity can tell you a lot about your professor. I still remember sitting in one of my law professor’s offices looking at a photo and thinking, “Hey, that’s my professor with Yasser Arafat!”

In Stephanie Rosenbloom’s NYT article “The Professor as Open Book,” psychologist and associate professor Sam Gosling of the University of Texas at Austin suggests that some professors are transferring this tradition to virtual environments through blogs, personal webpages, and Facebook or MySpace pages. Students are mining these pages to find out the personal information that their professors are readily sharing with the virtual public, with some professors hoping to appear more approachable to their students.

Would Professor Kingsfield from “The Paper Chase” approve?

The Law Library has just received the Rigos Bar Review Series KF303.R54 2008 with two copies of the set, one in AO66 and the other in Reserve. The following topics are covered in the series:

Vol. 1: MBE Review: Contracts and UCC Art. 2, Torts, and Real Property and Future Interests
Vol. 2: MBE Review: Evidence, Con Law, and Crim Law and Crim Pro
Vol. 3: Multistate Essay Exam Review
Vol. 4: Multistate Performance Test (MPT) Review; and
Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) Review

Plus, we've got in the latest nutshell, Legal Writing Citation KF245 .T47 2008, which looks like it'll offer some serious Bluebook help.

Finally, if you have a minute to spare for casual reading, check out Clarence Thomas' book My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir or The Little Green Book of Golf Law.

As always, if you can't wait to get your hands on these materials, they may still be on a cart behind the Information Services Desk before making their way to their proper homes on the library shelves.

What motivates your vote? National Public Radio and Public Media are interested in just that. Get My Vote is an on line space for one to express how certain issues and personal experiences have shaped how they vote. Once you register, you may upload a video, audio or text clip. Selected posts will be broadcast on NPR radio or TV. See what legal issues are of concern to your fellow citizens, from FDA regulation to immigration.

Some of you may have heard the story of a 35-year-old Kansas woman who spent 2 years in her boyfriend's bathroom. The County Attorney has filed charges against her boyfriend for mistreatment of a dependent adult, Kansas Statute 21-3437. Although the woman stayed in the bathroom voluntarily, it is possible her boyfriend was charged under the "omitting or depriving treatment" section of the statute. The woman's body fat had grown attached to the toilet seat, and she needed to be pried off. It appeared she stayed on the toilet seat continually for a month.

Should he be charged...What do you think?

Thanks to Sue Altmeyer for her input.

You might have noticed this bookmark icon -- -- at the bottom of our blog posts and on our research guides. This little widget is a convenient way to add any of our posts or research guides to your favorite social bookmarking app, like Del.icio.us, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, Twitter, StumbleUpon and others. To use it, just click the icon, then select the bookmarking service you want to save the page to -- say your Facebook page -- log into your account, and the library page will be bookmarked. Rumor has it that this icon will be showing up on Scholar records soon, so bookmarking books, journals, and databases will become even easier.

This post is courtesy of Schuyler Cook:

For the first time, you can listen to an oral argument, not live, but immediately after it occurs. At 11:30 a.m. today, C-SPAN will broadcast the oral argument in District of Columbia v. Heller, Case No. 07-290. C-SPAN Press Release . The issue is whether the Second Amendment forbids the District of Columbia from banning private possession of handguns while allowing possession of rifles and shotguns. See article about the case, BNA Summary.

Some podcasts of prior oral arguments are available via CSPAN and Oyez. Argument transcripts are available on the Supreme Court website.

LexisNexis has recently launched an Expert Commentaries feature. You may see one or more Expert Commentary $ links when browsing search results, particularly when searching within Banking, Bankruptcy, Class Actions, Copyright, Patent, Personal Injury, Securities, Trademark, and Transportation source files. For our College of Law faculty and students, despite the $, don't despair. These Expert Commentaries are included in our academic subscription. Simply click on the link to connect to a PDF document, which can be printed or downloaded. Each commentary includes links to U.S. or state case law, statutes, regulations, treatises, and other analysis. You can also search all of the Expert Commentaries -- this is source file under the Secondary Legal category.

The Fake Bad Scale is a 43 question test which aims to identify people faking physical pain or emotional distress. The test was added to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) last year, and is being used by experts in personal injury cases. An American Psychological Association panel found that the test was not supported by good research. Two Florida State Court cases held that the tests were not admissible evidence. David Armstrong, Malingerer Test Roils Personal Injury Law, The Wall Street Journal, Mar. 5, 2008; Debra Cassens Weiss, Test to Spot Liars Takes Center Stage in Personal Injury CasesABA Journal, Mar. 5, 2008; Dan Slater, Test for Malingerers Comes Under Fire,Wall Street Journal Law Blog, Mar. 5, 2008.

If you are filing an unfamiliar type of motion, or you are filing in a different jurisdiction, you may not be aware of all the procedural rules that apply. Westlaw KeyRules is a new database that lists the applicable rules for particular pleadings and motions in a given jurisdiction. See West Elert: KeyRules Both federal or state and local rules are listed. The database is also handy for a comparative study of court rules, as multiple jurisdictions can be searched at once.

Try it by going to the KEYRULES-ALL database, and click on Available Jurisdictions. Note that Ohio federal district courts and state common pleas courts for the larger Ohio counties are available. Select a jurisdiction, select a type of motion or pleading, and run the search.

Keyrules can be accessed under the Litigation tab, or by looking in the Directory under litigation. Thanks to Amy Wright of ZiefBrief., who astutely points out that KeyRules is the product of human editors, so you should double-check to be sure you are looking at all necessary rules.

The Washington and Lee School of Law has announced plans to revamp its 3L curriculum. As reported by the National Law Journal, W & Lee plan on replacing all 3L academic classes with "experiential" learning. In other words, students would receive practical real world experience.

Change has been in the air. Stanford and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching along with 10 other law schools have joined in tackling the issues raised in the two-year study by the Carnegie Foundation. The law library owns a copy of this study: Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law, San Francisco : Jossey-Bass/Wiley, KF272 .E38 2007.

As federal law does not explicitly* prohibit discrimination against gays and lesbians, it falls to the states and cities to pass such legislation. Ohio legislators recently introduced bills which aim to end discrimination based on sexual preference, HB 502 and SB 305. Republican House Speaker, Jon Husted, appears to be in favor of the bill, because, "We need to be an inviting place for a quality workforce." Source: Advocates of Anti-Discrimination Legislation Begin Drive for Passage in House, Senate Gongwer News Service, March 12, 2008. Ohio would be the 22nd State to pass this type of legislation. See Ohio Lawmakers Seek Sexual Orientation Protections Mansfield News Journal, Mar. 12, 2008 (AP article).

To find out which Ohio cities have ordinances against discrimination based on sexual preference, see Over Half the Nation Will be Covered by an Equality Law by Brian DeWitt, Gay People's Chronicle, May 11, 2007. You may want to check the ordinances of a particular city, because it is possible an ordinance was passed after this article was written.

*Note: Federal law prohibiting discrimination based on gender may possibly be utilized in a case where discrimination occurred based on sexual preference, depending on the circumstances.

Studies have shown that law school is a breeding ground for depression, anxiety and stress. Ruth Ann McKinney, Depression and Anxiety in Law Students, 8 J. Legal Writing Institute 229 (2002). A booklet issued recently by the American Bar Association may help. Hidden Sources of Law School Stress, by law professor Lawrence Krieger examines why law school is so stressful, and what you can do about it. The ABA's Mental Health Toolkit , p. 12-17, 37-44, tells students how to cope and get help. The Toolkit also advises Student Bar Associations and school administration on helping students with stress. Source: Dan Slater, Is Lawyer Malaise Moving From the Firm to the Campus? Wall Street Journal Law Blog.

We also have free counseling services on campus at the CSU Counseling Center. Feel free to contact them at (216)-687-2277.

No, the IRS is not only interested in dollar amounts. As noted in the March 11, 2008 U.S. Law Week (vol. 76, no. 34, p. 2539 (available to CSU users remotely with a Scholar PIN) the IRS has recently issued Governance and Related Topics – 501(c)(3) Organizations.

Given the IRS’s belief that “a well-governed charity is more likely to obey the tax laws, safeguard charitable assets, and serve charitable interests than one with poor or lax governance,” this document includes sections related to Mission, Organizational Documents, Governing Body, Governance and Management Policies, Financial Statements and Form 990 Reporting, and Transparency and Accountability. It replaces the Feb. 2007 Discussion Draft, and includes references to the new 2008 Form 990.

For a “Summary of Redesigned Form 990” including the various schedules, see Bruce R. Hopkins’ Nonprofit Counsel (Vol. 25, No. 3, p.3, March 2008 - available via OhioLINK’s Electronic Journal Center 2003-present.)

Additional information resources for nonprofits are listed in the Law Library’s Nonprofit Law Resource Guide.

Google has introduced a new feature, a search box with in a Google search. For example, when entering a Google search on Cleveland State University, you will find within the search results another search box so you can search within the Cleveland State University site. The new feature is able to detect a high probability that the user will want a more refined search within a particular site. Thanks to Wisblawg.

Or at least, according to The Frugal Law Student, law students ought to take advantage of the marketing opportunities and writing practice afforded by blogging. In Why Every Law Student Should Blog, Brett McKay points out that potential employers can learn a great deal from a candidate’s blog about his/her personality, communication strengths, judgment, passions, tech-saviness and self marketing ability. And the student who blogs seriously gets lots of practice in writing and editing that hone essential legal drafting skills. So, Blog On!

All that free law on the Internet – who is using it and for what purpose? Tom Bruce, cofounder and Director of the Legal Information Institute, recently offered his thoughts on how the kinds of primary authority and secondary analysis that the LII posts on the web are being accessed and used. Is it possible that the lofty goals of providing open access to the law are justified by concrete, measurable outcomes? Looking at patterns of use and comments on LII products, Bruce notes the following about the observations about the audience for legal information:

· It is not a “bipolar” audience – the language of the law is increasingly accessible to non-law (lay readers), and their needs for legal information run a spectrum from the personal to professional

· The Internet audience is more interested in regulations than case law

· Lay users are not trying to replace lawyers nor are they in danger of harming themselves – becoming better educated about the law, they are more likely recognize a need for legal services

· They are not doing, nor do they need, the exhaustive research that lawyers tend to do

· And, they are using the law they find to make “assertions about legal relationships” as applied to other endeavors they may be involved in, and interacting with legal text in new web applications

The Law Library will be open limited hours on Sunday, March 16th
12pm -5pm. We will resume regular semester hours on Monday,
March 17th. Enjoy your Break.

The Law Library, in line with the University, has closed as of 3pm Friday, March 7th and will be closed Saturday, March 8th. We will reopen Monday, March 10th @ 8am.

Need some help preparing an oral argument? Try:

• ABA Podcast on Effective Oral Argument. Thanks to the Legal Writing Prof Blog.
• Check out these videos at the library: (1) MAKING THE ORAL ARGUMENT : THE VIEW FROM THE INSIDE OUT. 83 min & Study Guide, KF8915 .M34 1996; (2)EFFECTIVE ARGUMENTS TO THE COURT. KF8915 .E43 1989 The second videotape in this series is an oral argument to the US Court of Appeals, with attorneys commenting afterward. The video is 2 hours long.
• 30 page article: Stepping Up to the Podium with Confidence: A Primer for Law Students on Preparing and Delivering Oral Arguments by James D. Dimitri. Thanks to the Legal Writing Prof Blog.

A Pennsylvania federal court judge fined a CEO and his attorney $29,000 for the CEO's hostile and abusive conduct during a 12 hour deposition. The CEO used the f-word 73 times, interrupted counsel, gave unnecessarily protracted answers, interposed his own objections and wrongfully refused to answer questions. His attorney did nothing to stop his client's conduct, and in fact, chuckled at his client's behavior. See Memorandum re. Motion to Compel and for Sanctions: GMAC Bank v. HTFC Corp. (Feb. 29, 2008), E.D. Pa. Case No. 06-5291. Source: Dan Slater, Curses! Client Swears his Way Through Deposition, Pays Price, Wall Street Journal Law Blog Mar. 5, 2008.

To see another example of a deposition gone wrong, check out the following video:

Note that a non-examining attorney does have the right to register objections to questions posed to a deponent, whether or not that deponent is a client. See Lisnek, Paul; Kaufman, Michael, "Depositions: Procedure, Strategy & Technique", 3rd ed., Section 11.9.

Niche social networking sites have been popping up on the web in increasing numbers. The doctors have Sermo, the teachers have TeachAde and the journalists have Wired Journalists – to name only a few.

Lawyers don’t have to feel left out – there’s LawLink, which bills itself as “the first online network exclusively for lawyers.” One interesting spin on the social networking model is that this month LawLink is slated to launch LawDocs, an application that allows you to upload, share, and download legal documents. Another feature of LawLink is a classifieds section for job postings.

Of course, you can always create your own social network for anything you’d like at Ning.

***Update-Law Library closed Saturday, March 8th due to inclement weather.

Spring Break (March 8th-March 16th) is around the corner. The Law Library will have different hours.

Saturday, March 8th-CLOSED-due to inclement weather
Sunday, March 9th-Closed
Monday, March 10th-Thursday, March 13th-8am-8pm
Friday, March 14th-8am-6pm
Saturday, March 15th-Closed
Sunday, March 16th-12pm-5pm

We resume regular semester hours on Monday, March 17th. Enjoy Spring Break.

What if your professor commented upon your outline, so you would know where you are going wrong before the exam? Professor Steven Friedland of Nova Southeastern University invites his students to post their outlines to the course webpage, where he will comment upon them. (See his post on Best Practices for Legal Education Blog) Students can post outlines anonymously. Prof. Friedland uses Blackboard (Web CT) for his course page, but the same can be accomplished with TWEN or Lexis Course Pages. TWEN, Lexis and WebCT allow access only to students enrolled in the class. Google Docs is another option where access can be restricted to class members.

Engaged Learning is What Makes CSU Special, according to the University’s new marketing campaign. The buzzword itself isn’t unique to CSU, however: The Center for Engaged Learning in the Law (CELL) blog, hosted by Elon University School of Law aims to “contribute to the discourse on teaching and learning in law, from the inspirational to the whimsical, to the mechanical.” Contributors include professors from several universities.

Thanks to the Law Librarian Blog for discovering this resource.

Ohiolink will be unveiling a new homepage soon, making it easier for you to find the information resources you need. A search box on the homepage allows you to search for: (1) articles and books, (2) books only, (3) articles only, (4) digital videos, or (5) search the OhioLINK Web pages. There still will be direct links to specific resources on the homepage, such as Electronic Journal Center and the many other Ohiolink databases. The new look will debut next week. For a sneak peek, check out Ohiolink Homepage

This post is courtesy of Schuyler Cook:

From the Astronomical Applications Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory webpage:

Daylight Time: "Starting in 2007, daylight time begins in the United States on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November. On the second Sunday in March, clocks are set ahead one hour at 2:00 a.m. local standard time, which becomes 3:00 a.m. local daylight time. On the first Sunday in November, clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local daylight time, which becomes 1:00 a.m. local standard time. These dates were established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pub. L. no. 109-58, 119 Stat 594 (2005). Not all places in the U.S. observe daylight time. In particular, Hawaii and most of Arizona do not use it. Indiana adopted its use beginning in 2006."