Banned Books Week “celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools.”  This annual celebration was founded in 1982 by Judith Krug, then Director of the American Library Association (ALA) Office …

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Since 1994, ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, has provided alerts on potential infectious disease outbreaks through its free email subscription service.  ProMED was launched by the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), and it is “an essential source …

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West Academic Study Aids are available on the law library’s website under Law Databases. Hundreds of titles are available that cover most law school courses. Some of the popular study aid series include Nutshells, Acing Series, Concepts and Insights, Gilbert Summaries, and Sum and …

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One problem that law librarians and legal researchers find when researching current events is the lack of specific case information in news articles reporting on the cases.  Unfortunately, this has proven to be the case with recent news articles about …

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