Dear friends and colleagues,

This newsletter highlights new and exciting services to support your teaching and scholarship. Please take a look at the new treaty resources available through Hein World Treaty. We would like you to also take a moment to read about Lexis Securities Mosaic (formerly Knowledge Mosaic).

Be green – the Law Library’s new Kit-Lock coded locker allows you to safely and securely charge your mobile devices. Personal Android and Apple chargers can also be checked out at the Information Desk for a 4 hour loan period.

The teaching librarians are offering a Prepare to Practice series of research training sessions; please do encourage your students and research assistants to attend.

In this issue, our colleague Judy McMorrow offers insight into her preferred research sources. And, we introduce our new Legal Information Librarian, Patricia Dickerson, Law Library Assistant, Katie Lewis, and Law School Technology Consultant, Kristen Toohey. There is also an interesting article in this newsletter about the upcoming Rare Book Room exhibit—we hope to see you in the Law Library.

Please keep an eye out for an email regarding the Library’s Law Library’s seventh annual Diversity Read in March during the common lunch hour. This year’s title, Phil Klay’s Redeployment, takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned.

Please share your reactions to these services with us --and don’t forget to join us for some of the events described in this newsletter. Best wishes for a productive spring semester!

Peace,

Filippa Marullo Anzalone
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Library & Technology Services

New Additions to Foreign and International Law Collection

BC Law Library has added new sources to the Foreign and International Law Collection, accessible from the Law Library’s Database List.

• HeinOnline’s World Treaty Library features the richest collection of world treaties ever available, covering the time period from 1648 to the present. To help users locate treaties among 180,000 plus treaty records in the collection, HeinOnline has created in-depth indexing of all the treaties and cross citation linking. Users can quickly locate a treaty using keyword, country, treaty number, treaty type, party, subject, and many other fields.
• Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926 includes pre-1926 treatises and similar monographs, sourced from the collections of the Yale, George Washington University, and Columbia law libraries, in the following areas: International Law; Comparative Law; Foreign Law; Roman Law; Islamic Law; Jewish Law; and Ancient Law.
• Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources (parts I and II) consists of historical legal codes, statutes, regulations, and commentaries on codes from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and other countries in northern Europe, sourced from the law libraries of Yale, Harvard, and George Washington University.

New Law Library Staff Members

Please welcome our new Law Library staff members: Patricia Dickerson; Katie Lewis and Kristen Toohey.

Patricia Dickerson joined us as a new Legal Information Librarian and Lecturer in Law in November 2014. Patricia received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa; her Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; and her JD from Hamline University School of Law. Patricia is a member of the Minnesota State Bar. Patricia’s most recent position was Reference Librarian and instructor at North Carolina Central University Law Library. Patricia is part of a team for teaching Advanced Legal Research this semester. Contact Patricia at patricia.dickerson@bc.edu or phone 617-552-2896.

Katie Lewis arrived in Boston from Philadelphia. She earned her Bachelor of Arts (with honors) in English Literature from the University of California, San Diego, and her Master of Science in Library and Information Science from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. Previously, Katie worked as a Library Services Assistant and then as a Resource Sharing Assistant II at the Drexel University Library in Philadelphia. She has been busy helping our students and faculty at the Information Desk since her arrival on October 27, 2014. Contact Katie at katherine.lewis.3@bc.edu or phone 617-552-8605.

Kristen Toohey, the new Law School Technology Consultant, started at the Law Library on January 20, 2015. Kristen hails from Westborough, MA. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Photographic Communications from the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. She has also attended classes and earned certificates in web content management and design from the Harvard University Extension School and the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Kristen has worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and, most recently, at the Harvard Medical School/New England Primate Research Center (NEPRC) in Southborough, MA. At NEPRC, Kristen had increasingly responsible positions in graphics, web management, and technology support over the past 17 years. NEPRC will be ceasing operations and permanently closing in the coming months, hence Kristen's jump to the BC Law community. Kristen can be reached via the ATR departmental contact points -- phone: 617-552-2604, email: atrinbox@bc.edu

Rare Book Room News

Come visit the Law in Postcards exhibit while it’s still on display, and grab a bookmark and catalog! The exhibit will remain on display through the end of February, but time is ticking away. This exhibit features postcards and trade cards that involve depictions of the law in one form or another - serious, humorous, nostalgic, whimsical, and sometimes puzzling! The cards were a gift from Michael H. Hoeflich, John H. & John M. Kane Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Kansas School of Law.

Next up? Keep an eye out for an exhibit on the Magna Carta and Norman law materials. This exhibit is currently in the works and will be mounted in March and on display through the summer. It will coincide with the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215!

As always, please encourage your students to use the Rare Book Room as a quiet study space, whenever the room is open, generally weekdays from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Also, please contact Laurel Davis at davislp@bc.edu if you are interested in integrating a Rare Book Room visit or exhibit into your course!

BC Law’s 7th Annual Diversity Read

The law library is pleased to again host a community diversity reading program open to BC law students, faculty, and staff. This year we are co-sponsoring our reading program with the Student Veterans Association. The book is Redeployment, by Phil Klay. Klay is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served in the Anbar Province of Iraq as a Public Affairs Officer from 2007 to 2008. The twelve short stories of Redeployment revolve around soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan both during and after deployments and are told from a variety of perspectives – from infantrymen to officers, from physically and/or invisibly wounded soldiers, and even from chaplains questioning their faith. Redeployment won the 2014 National Book Award for fiction and made the New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2014 list. Multiple copies of the book are on hand at the circulation desk for borrowing. A group discussion of the book will take place on Thursday, March 12th during the Common Lunch hour (12:30 to 1:30) – so keep your eyes open for more information!

We look forward to reading with you!

Knowledge Mosaic is now Lexis Securities Mosaic

For anyone who used to use Knowledge Mosaic for securities, telecommunications, or energy research, please note that Lexis has acquired this product. You can access the database through the law library’s database list. For the time being, it will be listed there under both Lexis Securities Mosaic and Knowledge Mosaic. The search interface looks a bit different, but once you start searching, the old Knowledge Mosaic interface comes back into play.

The good news? The content for securities researchers is still excellent, with EDGAR filings, comment letters, law firm memos, agreements and model documents, and much more. One of our favorite Knowledge Mosaic features happily is still featured. That's the Reference Retriever, which allows the researcher to navigate easily between different filings and exhibits without running a whole new search.

The bad news? The telecommunications and energy law content has disappeared; the name change and content shift are said to signify a recommitment to the securities roots of the product. It remains to be seen if the other content will reemerge.

As always, let your friendly reference librarians know if you have any questions or problems accessing content.

Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education Collection

The BC Law Library’s MCLE collection has migrated to electronic format. Access for BC Law students and faculty is provided by MCLE OnlinePass. This source contains all MCLE treatises as well as program materials from the last 4 years. The BC Law community can access all MCLE titles at any time whether on-campus, at home or while traveling. You will be prompted for your BC username and system password if you are logging in from off-campus. This training video will help you to get started with searching MCLE OnlinePass.

Exhibit: Chinese Artifacts and Legal Resources

To celebrate Chinese New Year on February 19, 2015, BC Law Library will display an exhibit of Chinese artifacts and legal resources. The exhibition is made possible through the generosity of Professor Judith McMorrow. From years of teaching and traveling in China and friendship with many Chinese students and scholars, Professor McMorrow has accumulated an extensive collection of Chinese artifacts. We selected a few from her personal collection to share with the community in during this festive season.

Together with the exquisite artifacts, Chinese legal resources at BC Law Library will also be featured. For starters, three books are recommended for their comprehensive treatment of the subject, currentness of the information, and easiness to read. For in-depth research, four databases are introduced. ChinaLawInfo is one of the most widely used legal databases in China. The bilingual database provides users with English versions of China laws and regulations, judicial cases, tax treaties, law journals and gazettes, as well as legal news and legislative updates. China Law & Practice has an emphasis on breaking news, analysis and legislation updates. Foreign Law Guide on China provides bibliographic citations to legislation and selected references to secondary sources, and Westlaw China benefits from the expertise of an editorial team with years of experience in Chinese legal work.