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The CM Law Library Blog seeks to inform the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law community about key legal education, research, practice, and law library news, with a particular focus on Cuyahoga County and Ohio as well as faculty research interests.

Welcome AALS Workshop Participants

Michael Slinger | May 30, 2008 - 15:14

Speaking for myself and the entire Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library staff, we are pleased to welcome attendees of the 2008 American Association of Law Schools Workshop for Law Librarians to a reception at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, at 6pm. Please be sure to stop in our Law Library for a tour.

The Law Library, built in 1997, is featured on SchoolDesigns.com as an example of outstanding university design. It was designed by Ellerbe Becket of Minneapolis with Collins Rimer Gordon of Cleveland. The 85,000 square-foot, four-story, light-filled, modern building houses over 500,000 volumes, a 50-seat computer lab, several instructional rooms, and 17 group study rooms. The Law Library is also home to several interesting works of art.

Encircling our entrance level rotunda is series of bronze plates created by Washington, DC sculptor Jim Sanborn. The plates include excerpts from prominent legal documents from the 6th to 20th centuries, thereby depicting the development of justice systems in many cultures. In our Casual Reading area on the base level is a large collage of ceramic tiles created by Cleveland ceramicist Angelica Pozo. The tiles are imprinted with excerpts from key US Statutes, and, though they clearly spell out the word LAW, reflect the struggle underlying legal interpretations.

We hope you enjoy your visit to our College of Law and Law Library, and best wishes to you for productive and stimulating sessions at the AALS Workshop for Law Librarians.


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Transitioning from One-L to Summer Clerkship

Sue Altmeyer, Electronic Services Librarian, sue.altmeyer@law.csuohio.edu | May 30, 2008 - 11:44

The Suffolk Law Library Blog informs us of a series of podcasts entitled Transitioning from One-L to Summer Legal Work.Legal writing professors from all corners of the U.S. collaborated on these programs. Anyone can download them for free via Itunes.

Don't forget that the research librarians are available during the summer to answer questions about your clerkship research assignments. (Of course, if the law firm you are working for has their own librarian it is best to ask them first). You can contact us via (216) 687-6877 during Research Librarian hours or send an email to research.services@law.csuohio.edu.


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Countdown to 2015: Millennium Development Goals

Amy Burchfield, Access & Faculty Services Librarian amy.burchfield@law.csuohio.edu | May 30, 2008 - 11:07

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are 8 goals established in 2000 that United Nations member states have agreed to try to reach by the year 2015. The 8 goals, embodied in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, are:

  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Achieve universal primary education
  • Promote gender equality and empower women
  • Reduce child mortality
  • Improve maternal health
  • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
  • Ensure environmental sustainability
  • Develop a global partnership for development

To see how member states are doing in reaching these goals, check out the MDG Monitor. As a starting point for finding out if individual countries have enacted legislation that relate to the topics of the MDGs, try searching the Foreign Law Guide.


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