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Take a minute to relax with Yoga in the Quiet Room tomorrow, Tuesday Dec. 4 from 12:00-12:45pm. This class is for all levels, beginners welcome! Please bring a yoga mat or towel. The Quiet Room is located in the Learning Commons on the second floor of the Law Library.

The law library will close tomorrow Wednesday November 21, at 5pm and will reopen Saturday November 24^th at 9am.

We hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!

Take a minute to relax with Yoga in the Quiet Room tomorrow, Tuesday Nov. 20 from 5:00-5:45pm. This class is for all levels, beginners welcome! Please bring a yoga mat or towel. The Quiet Room is located in the Learning Commons on the second floor of the Law Library.

Students, do you have a bit of time before or during the upcoming Thanksgiving break?  Why not refresh your research skills and take a few Law Library Legal Research Seminars?!  The Seminars are conveniently available online, via the Westlaw TWEN platform.  You earn points for completing a Seminar by correctly answering 3/4 of the questions on that Seminar’s quiz.  Your Seminar points are good for the entire time you are here at C|M|LAW.  When you earn 100 points, you are awarded a Law Library Legal Research Letter of Recognition and a Digital Badge, which you can post to your LinkedIn page.  You can earn multiple Letters and Digital Badges.

Here are descriptions of seven of our Law Library Legal Research Seminars:

• Starting Research with Secondary Sources – Why recreate the wheel? Examine how secondary sources explain and analyze “the law” for you, as well as cite primary authority. [17:02 mins; 12.5 points]
• Bluebooking – For faster legal drafting, review how to effectively apply citation and style rules, as well as abbreviation and jurisdiction tables. [38:47 mins; 25 points]
• Administrative Law – Break through the mysteries of agency rulemaking and case adjudication. Learn the key resources for finding federal and Ohio agency regulations and decisions. [29:59 mins; 25 points]
• Cost Effective Federal Legislative History: Congress.gov & GPO.gov – Understand the importance of, and materials generated in, the federal legislative process.  See how to find key materials in the freely-available Congress.gov and GPO.gov. [17:33 mins; 12.5 points]
• HeinOnline – Review the wide array of content (eg, law journals, session laws, foreign law), date coverage, and unique features of this full-text “database of databases.” [16:49 mins.; 12.5 points]
• Practical Law by Westlaw – Review the specialized practice areas, resources and features of this unique Westlaw product. [13:44 mins; 12.5 points]
• Bioethics Resources & Scholarly Writing – Examine a wide array of bioethics resources, as well as learn how these resources can be used to select a paper topic and conduct effective research on that topic. [28:33 mins; 25 points]

We also have six Law Library Legal Research Seminars on the major legal research platforms.  In these Seminars, you will learn big box & pre-filtered searching, how to print/download/email search results, how to use citator services to update and expand your research, and the basics of combining terms & phrases in effective search statements:

• Westlaw Overview [20:03 mins; 12.5 points]
• KeyCite [10:16 mins; 12.5 points]
• Lexis Advance Overview [21:11 mins; 12.5 points]
• Shepard’s [11;54 mins; 12.5 points]
• Bloomberg Law Overview – Also reviews content not available on Lexis Advance & Westlaw. [25:39 mins; 12.5 points]
• Terms & Connectors Searching [10:48 mins; 12.5 points]

For more information on the Law Library Legal Research Seminars, contact Laura Ray, Outreach & Instructional Services Librarian.

The law library and university will be closed on Monday November 12, 2018 in observance of Veterans Day in the United States.  The law library will have normal hours this weekend and the rest of the week next week after Monday.