Thanksgiving Proclamations

Happy Thanksgiving! In case you need some legal reading appropriate for the day, Pilgrim Hall Museum website will give you links to every President's Thanksgiving Proclamation, from George Washington to George Bush, with a link to those by the Continental Congress as well.

Thanksgiving weekend hours

The Law Library will be open the following hours over this weekend:
Wednesday: 9 am to 8:45 pm
Thursday: Closed
Friday: 9 am to 8:45 pm
Saturday 9 am to 4:45 pm
Sunday 1 pm to 11:45 pm

Reference hours will be:
Tuesday: 9 am to 5 pm
Wednesday: 9 am to 3 pm
Friday: staff holiday, no reference
Saturday: 9:30 - 4:45 pm
Sunday: 2 pm to 9 pm

New Acquisitions List

The October 2006 New Acquisitions list is up.

Reminder on hours this Friday

Just a reminder that the library will open at 1 pm this Friday, Nov. 10, due to a scheduled power outage in conjunction with the construction. Also, as it is the Veteran's Day holiday, there will be no reference assistance on Friday.

EDotW part 8

This is an update to HeinOnline. HeinOnline now has the historical Code of Federal Regulations from 1938 through 1983. Navigating it is still a bit tricky, here's part of their announcement:
"The complete CFR is available in HeinOnline for the period 1938 through 1983. Some researchers have mentioned to us that they were not able to see the 1963 through 1976 CFR content when using the “Title and Part Quick Locator” feature in HeinOnline. However, this content IS available in HeinOnline, but until we electronically index the 1963 through 1976 CFR content to the Part level (which will occur before year-end), researchers should use the “Browse By: Bindings” feature to access content from the period 1963 through 1976."

There are also links to HeinOnline's Federal Register database and the Government Printing Office's (GPO) CFR site, which has the CFR from 1996 onward.

O.E.D. Meets Cyberspace

This week's New York Times Sunday Magazine carries an interesting article titled Cyber-Neologoliferation, on how the staid Oxford English Dictionary has been impacted by the Internet. Apparently the 3rd edition of the O.E.D. is being developed online. Revised installments began to appear in 2000-- after 150 typists spent 18 months keyboarding in the 2nd edition so revisions could begin. The print version of the 2nd edition-- in 20 volumes-- contained 21,730 pages and weighed 138 pounds. It is unclear whether the 3rd edition will ever be produced in paper format.