Public Services

Reference questions answered Materials checked out Rare Book and Cage items used 1-hour instruction sessions Tours conducted Items borrowed for faculty & students Items loaned to other libraries

7,509 27,509 540215222,8023,111

Acquisitions & Cataloging

Titles cataloged (mostly electronic)Volumes added Total serial titlesTotal print volumesTotal volumes & volume equivalents

26,4748,634 6,850 546,427 735,476

Gifts & Endowments

Jack Clarke ’52 Comparative Law Book Fund

Sheppard A. Guryan ’67 Law Library Endowment

Arthur H. Rosenbloom ’59 Law Library Endowment

Earl J. Bennett 1901 Collection

Judge Alfred J. Loew Memorial Fund

Harry Bitner Research Fund

Lapkin Foundation

Foreign, Comparative, & International Law

History of Jurisprudence & American Legal Thought

Israeli Law

Statutory Material

Education & Other Acquisitions

Research Fellows

Donovan Project

Annual Report July 2006 - July 2007

Cornell Center for DoCumentationon ameriCan law in Paris

This summer, Claire Germain, Edward Cornell Law Librarian, was awarded the Chevalier de La Légion d’Honneur medal, France’s most prestigious honor, for her efforts in bridging French and American legal culture. The occasion celebrated the dedication of the Cornell Center for Documentation on American Law at the Cour de Cassation, France’s highest court, made possible by the donation of 13,000 volumes of American case law from the Law Library. Dean Stewart Schwab was also recognized for his efforts in bringing to fruition the gift of the American law collection to France’s supreme court with the prestigious insignia, the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite medal.

Vincent Lamanda, first president of the court, stated at the dedication, “I pay tribute to Cornell Law School Dean Stewart Schwab and Law School Librarian and Professor Claire Germain for having made it possible to express in such a magnificent way the international cooperation that exists between France and the United States.” The ceremony was attended by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Anthony Kennedy, and by Chief Justices of the Supreme Courts of many European countries.

The Law Library staff rallied around this project, selecting the volumes, processing the records, and packing the materials for shipment to Paris. In addition to the donation of books, the Law Library is offering special electronic legal research training and instruction to French legal scholars and judges. The Cour de Cassation’s library, normally closed to the public, will in turn allow Cornell students and scholars studying in Paris to access the materials.

Germain noted, “In a world increasingly dominated by the Internet, it is important to remember that actual physical contact with books is essential to the communication of knowledge from generation to generation. They [books] are part of our international heritage and bear witness to our civilization.”

Web 2.0 at the Law Library RSS Feed for InSITE delivers content of the biweekly web annotations automatically to your desktop.http://library.lawschool.cornell.edu/insiteasp/

Law Librarian Blog has Jean Pajerek and Julie Jones as contributing editors, with regular publication of our InSITE annotations.http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/

Connotea is used by the law librarians to quickly save, organize, and share links to articles and web pages.http://www.connotea.org/group/Cornell%20Law%20Library

Legal Research 2.0: Beyond Law School

Research Attorneys provided sessions in April to help law students prepare for research in their summer jobs:

Customized Research Appointments •

“Into the Real World” workshop •

Lexis and Westlaw “Prepare to Practice” sessions•

As the new academic year began, the Law Library staff was actively engaged with law students, busily conducting tours and educational sessions. Vital training for law student staff on the journals produced at Cornell was provided before classes began, to help students do source-collecting of the materials cited in each article. They learned about the many options they have for document delivery on campus and around the world, how to search online catalogs, and where to find special collections specific to their topics. Matt Morrison is the liaison to Cornell Law Review; Thomas Mills is liaison to the Cornell International Law Journal; Julie Jones is liaison to the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy; Pat Court is liaison to the LII Supreme Court Oral Arguments Preview; and Jean Callihan served as coordinator of the activities. Extensive research assistance was offered to the incoming LL.M. students who have law degrees from their own countries and come to Cornell for one year of advanced study. Three days of research orientation were conducted before classes officially began. This is particularly important for the many students who arrive from countries that use the civil law system, based more on legislation than our own common law tradition, with a basis in judge-made law through case precedents. Thomas Mills and Pat Court presented lectures on constitutions, statutes, regulations, case law, digests, journals, treatises, and web research. The lectures were reinforced with hands-on training in the Reading Room in small groups led by the Research Attorneys. The library reaches all of the law students new to Cornell in several mandatory sessions that inform them about computer use on campus. Pat Court spoke at each of the “Introduction to Law School Computing and Legal Information Services” sessions, giving students a head start on how to get Lexis and Westlaw passwords, the usefulness of CALI lessons, the online exam archive, and the Cornell Law Library web site as their legal research portal. First year students who attended the Academic Orientation in the week before classes began also received a further introduction to the Law Library from Pat Court, with information on how to read a citation and figuring out various kinds of study aids. Summer at the Law Library was busy with law students working as Research Assistants for faculty, who often have major projects when classes are not held. At the end of May, Research Assistants received a complete orientation on:* How to conduct scholarly research at Cornell University * How to obtain research materials held on and off campus * How to print in the lab and have it charged to the professor * How to use COLTS and get paid Research assistants were encouraged to work with the library liaison designated to assist their faculty member in order to strategize how to handle the research projects and for assistance with any research questions.

For a good understanding of just what research challenges law students face in their summer jobs, Jean Callihan once again conducted the annual survey on summer research with second and third year law students. We found that 99% had access to both Westlaw and Lexis, 83% of respondents performed research often, 75% used mostly computers, and 37% used print materials at least a quarter of the time. The Library plans new courses and updates the curriculum in continuing courses, based on the feedback received from the survey. In this year’s prize drawing, Cecilia Sander won hockey tickets and Ferve Ozturk won a Barnes & Noble gift certificate.

stuDent serviCes

Cornell Legal Scholarship Repository

45 new papers added to the repository

153 total papers in the repository

29,574 downloads of papers this year

Series of Papers include:

Legal Studies Research Paper Series

LL.M. Papers Series

Berger International Speaker Series

East Asian Law and Culture Conference Series

Working Papers Series

http://lsr.nellco.org/cornell/

faCulty serviCes

Law faculty each have a research attorney who serves as liaison to the Law Library for the faculty’s information and research needs. Extensive assistance is provided for faculty scholarship and for classroom teaching. Summer is a busy time for faculty research at Cornell Law School, and our Research Assistants Orientation Program helps law students build their skills in conducting effective research for faculty projects.Librarians taught Research Workshops in these seminar courses:

Research projects to assist law faculty with their scholarship were conducted by Research Attorneys for many faculty, including Professors Clermont, Ndulo, Heise, Schwab, Riles, Taylor, Bowman, Barcelo, Hans, Wippman, Alexander, Yale-Loehr, Blume, and Martin. In-depth assistance included training law student Research Assistants and also Administrative Assistants who work on faculty projects, consulting with faculty on the most efficient way to accomplish their research aims, and researching archival materials for the historical perspective needed for scholarly publication. Faculty count on this outstanding assistance to keep their publications on the cutting edge of developments, to prepare themselves to provide testimony at Congressional hearings, to ensure they have the necessary facts at hand when providing media commentary, and to prepare updated teaching materials to use in the classroom with their students. The Law Library continued to implement the concept of multiple paths of discovery for our faculty scholarship. Librarian Jean Pajerek is the coordinator of our Cornell Legal Scholarship Repository, a part of the NELLCO (New England Law Library Consortium) Repository. Faculty papers that are published in law journals and on the web in the Legal Scholarship Network were simultaneously made available on our Repository.

Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate ClinicContemporary American JuryFeminist JurisprudenceImmigration and Refugee LawIncome Taxation of Corporate Mergers & AcquisitionsLegal Narratives Principles of American Legal WritingPsychological Expert Testimony in the CourtsSocial Science and the LawTrusts and Estates

Digitizing ColleCtions

19th Century Trials DigitizedMurder and mayhem are the focus of the library’s popular Trials Collection. The nucleus of the collection contains the library of the 19th century practitioner Nathaniel Moak, whose extensive documentation of every trial he conducted generated unique social and legal records that are fascinating to the contemporary researcher. Many of these trial volumes have recently been digitally scanned by the Hein Company, which approached the Cornell Law Library because we have one of the best collections of trials in the country. Over 1100 volumes are now available through HeinOnline’s World Trials Collection. This project makes rare and unique material from the 17th century up to the early 20th century easily accessible to users around the world, and is a first step in the Law Library’s plans to digitize our special collections.

Liberia Law OnlineCornell Law Library continues to assist efforts to re-establish the rule of law in Liberia. During the fourteen years of civil war in Liberia, the National Law Library and most court libraries were destroyed, leaving the legal system without ready access to the country’s laws. We are working to provide free web access to the law in Liberia, in cooperation with the United Nations Mission in Liberia, the American Embassy in Monrovia, the U.S. State Department, and the Carter Center. In addition to digitizing unique Liberian legal materials dating back to the country’s colonial period in the mid-1800s, the Law Library has also compiled an index to the first twenty-seven volumes of the Liberian Law Reports and posted the index on the library’s Liberian web page. In the first few weeks that the index was available, it was downloaded by researchers from around the world. Cornell’s relationship with Liberia dates back to the early 1950s when Professor Milton Konvitz formed a team at Cornell to update and rewrite the Liberian Code.

Large Scale Digitization InitiativeThe Law Library is part of CUL’s Large Scale Digitization Initiative with Microsoft. Planning is underway for thousands of books from our collection published before 1923 to be digitized and added to Microsoft’s Live Search Books on the web. In return, in addition to the physical books, we will have digital copies for preservation and access. Similar discussions are under way with Google, as Cornell joins major research libraries to make library materials available on the web through the Google Book Search project to digitize the world’s books.

Prepared for summer research?

“I was well-prepared, much more than many of my fellow summer associates from other law schools.”--Cornell 2l

“I found myself often being asked research questions by other summer associates and received very positivefeedback about my thorough and efficient research skills.”--Cornell 2l

Legal Research Classes for 1Ls “He made legal research comprehensible and fun. I really enjoyed our class time with him and hismaterials were very helpful. He was accessible in his office and always willing to help out when needed.”

teaChing legal researCh

Law Librarians continue to be a vital part of the law school curriculum, teaching several courses that are very popular and well received by the law students who fill up the classes:

Advanced Legal Research – taught this year by Jean Callihan, Pat Court, and Matt Morrison, is a 3-credit seminar in which students select a topic of personal interest in which to concentrate for their major research, class presentation, and paper.

International and Foreign Legal Research – was taught by Thomas Mills, our international and foreign law specialist, as a 2-credit course that many J.D. and LL.M. students find indispensable.

Business Law Research – was taught again this year by our business specialist, Jean Callihan, in this 1-credit course that is of great interest to our joint J.D./M.B.A. students.

U.S. Legal Research for LL.M. Students – taught in the Fall semester by Matt Morrison and Charles Finger, this 1-credit course helps graduate law students with law degrees from other countries get up to speed quickly on the materials and strategies of U.S. legal research.

Online Legal Research – a new course this year, Thomas Mills presented a very popular 1-credit course that students had been asking for, with a focus on the web sites and databases most needed for legal research.

Animal Law Independent Study – In following the university’s encouragement of cooperation between colleges, Pat Court worked with a law student to design a plan for outreach across campus to animal researchers and professionals who would benefit from knowing some basic legal research. This became a supervised teaching and directed reading course which was the impetus for a new, highly subscribed course in Animal Law at the law school.

Lawyering – first year law students learned the basics of researching case law, statutes, administrative law, and secondary sources through online and print resources, integrating the various formats from the earliest classes. Lexis, Westlaw, and web research is taught in conjunction with traditional print materials. Jean Callihan, Pat Court, Charlie Finger, Julie Jones, Thomas Mills, and Matt Morrison each taught a small section of students, and coordinated with writing faculty to provide a well-integrated experience in legal research, writing, and analysis.

Continuing Legal Education

“Good intro to the latest electronic resources and top internet issues.”

“As an out of state attorney, I found the New York material highly interesting and thought provoking. I had not realized ‘it’ had resulted in such variety in state court responses. Thanks!”

“As a first timer, I found the facilitators very helpful. It was really great.”

Reunion program about John Kelly, ‘47, attended by Jack G. Clarke, LL.B. ‘52; Claire M. Germain, Edward Cornell Law Librarian and Professor of Law; James E. Kelly; Frank Lasch, ‘57; Norma W. Schwab, Associate University Counsel; and Anne Lukingbeal, Associate Dean and Dean of Students.

alumni reunion

A special program coordinated by the Law Library for Reunion 2007 had great appeal for the alumni. The most decorated Cornell World War II hero and law school alumnus was John Kelly, ’47. The program highlighted his life and the book, The Wartime Letters of John and Vicki Kelly (1941-1946), recently published by his son James E. Kelly who addressed the fascinated crowd of alumni. The spirit of the letters was conveyed by readings of some of the letters by law students, Fritz Ernemann, ’09, and Kelly Mellecker, ’09 (pictured middle left).

The Rare Book Room and Special Collections were also on display for the reunion participants. Thomas Mills coordinated this Open House, with many of the rare treasures on exhibit.

Continuing Legal Education is a popular activity during Law School Reunion, and the Law Library again offered a session for CLE credits on “Ethical Lawyering in a Technical World.” Charles Finger and Jean Callihan spoke on firewalls, e-mails, and other new modes of technology of great interest to attorneys. Pat Court, Jean Pajerek, and Matt Morrison assisted with the hands-on computer lab session where attorneys could research scenarios and ask questions.

To make international legal materials even easier to find in the Law Library, the Catalog-ing Department has been hard at work reclassifying and assigning new call numbers to thousands of volumes published prior to 1999. This new arrangement reflects an updat-ed view of the structure of international law and international relations. These treatises and serials are important works in the field and will now be found on the shelves with the newer materials on the same topics, making it easier for researchers to browse the collection of international materials.

new numbers for olD booksintegrating international materials

“The whole staff is amazing. They are terrific to work with and very helpful. Thanks so much!”

national library workers Day Brought Accolades for the Staff!

“All the library staff are stars because they are the sunshine on a dreary day! They are helpful, kind, & nice.”

law library staff

In December, Crystal Hackett, the highly respected and beloved Law Library Administrative Assistant, retired after 42 years at Cornell, the longest-working employee at the law school. The Law Library was fortunate to hire Chris O’Hara, who knows the law school well, and has considerable experience working for the Dean’s office and various faculty members.

Undergraduate Student Assistant Stephanie Hoffman was named one of five top student employees at Cornell University Library. Stephanie was nominated by her supervisor Sue Hills for the Fuerst Outstanding Library Student Employee award for a rare combination of job aptitude, self-motivation, flexibility, reliability, and people skills.

Sue Hills received one of five Best Employer awards this year from Cornell University. She was nominated by one of her favorite students, Stephanie Hoffman, for her caring and supportive role as a supervisor.

Jean Callihan served as Chair of the AALL Research Grants Committee, and taught the Continuing Legal Education course on “Ethical Lawyering in a Technical World” with Charles Finger at Reunion.

Charles Finger was president of the Association of Law Libraries of Upstate New York (ALLUNY), leading one of the major chapters of law librarians in the country. Elizabeth Hand was honored for 30 years of service to the Cornell Law Library and University. Joanna Hooste became the Night Supervisor at the Law Library, bringing excellent computer skills honed as Administrative Assistant to law faculty. She has special synergy between the library and law school, as she continues to process law faculty publications for the Legal Scholarship Network, in addition to her new library role.

Julie Jones presented a program on “Evaluating Subscription Database Design,” at the Back to the Future of Legal Research Conference in Chicago in May. She published “Catching Flies with Honey: Combining Conflict with Public Relations,” in the AALL SPECTRUM, June 2007. Patricia Jones was honored for 25 years of service to the Cornell Law Library and University.

Thomas Mills presented legal research outreach programs on campus: “Basics of Legal Research for Non-Attorneys,” with a focus on environmental law, at Adelson Ornithology Library, and “Liberian Law at Cornell: A Long History of Collaboration,” at the Africana Library. He also served as coach and advisor to the international moot court teams.

Matt Morrison continued as Treasurer of ALLUNY, served on the AALL Law Library Journal/Spectrum Editorial Board, and was a member of the Academic Law Library Special Interest Section Nominations Committee for AALL.

Jean Pajerek served as Chair of the search committee for CUL Electronic Resources Librarian, and as Chair of the AALL Technical Services Special Interest Section’s Cataloging and Classification Committee, which included membership on the TS-SIS Executive Board and Education Committee. Sasha Skenderija taught an innovative distance learning course in “Information Science and New Media” for the New Media Studies Master Program at Charles University in Prague. Elizabeth Teskey was honored for 15 years of service to the Cornell Law Library and University.

Public Services

Reference questions answered Materials checked out Rare Book and Cage items used 1-hour instruction sessions Tours conducted Items borrowed for faculty & students Items loaned to other libraries

7,509 27,509 540215222,8023,111

Acquisitions & Cataloging

Titles cataloged (mostly electronic)Volumes added Total serial titlesTotal print volumesTotal volumes & volume equivalents

26,4748,634 6,850 546,427 735,476

Gifts & Endowments

Jack Clarke ’52 Comparative Law Book Fund

Sheppard A. Guryan ’67 Law Library Endowment

Arthur H. Rosenbloom ’59 Law Library Endowment

Earl J. Bennett 1901 Collection

Judge Alfred J. Loew Memorial Fund

Harry Bitner Research Fund

Lapkin Foundation

Foreign, Comparative, & International Law

History of Jurisprudence & American Legal Thought

Israeli Law

Statutory Material

Education & Other Acquisitions

Research Fellows

Donovan Project

Annual Report July 2006 - July 2007