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Food for (Library) Fines is back! (March 14, 2016 to April 3, 2016)

Did you return a book a little late? Forget what time your laptop was due? Your chance to pay off those charges and help a good cause is here! Starting Monday, March 14, and running through April 3, University Libraries and the Law Library will sponsor their semiannual Food for Fines drive for the Akron-Canton Food Bank. You can bring in nonperishable food items to pay for your fines.

One food item = one dollar toward your fines!

There is no limit on the number of items you may bring in. This offer cannot be used to pay for billed or lost items.

The food is donated to the Akron-Canton Food Bank. Food may be dropped off at the Law Library Circulation Desk, the Bierce Library Circulation Desk or the Science and Technology Library.

Problems Printing from Lexis?

If you are experiencing problems printing from Lexis, this problem may be solved by ensuring that your browser is allowing pop-ups from Lexis.  Even if you allowed pop-ups in the past, a new Lexis software release on February 21 made changes to the delivery mechanism that may require you to again allow pop-ups from Lexis.

For information on disabling pop-ups in general, click here.   Information on pop-ups from LexisNexis is here (look under Are some of your Nexis features not functioning properly?).

If you continue to have problems, please let the library staff know!  The general number for the library is  (330) 972-7330 and general email is ualawlibrary@uakron.edu.  Or you can contact a specific staff member.

Need help with Health Law Research?

The library’s Health Law Guide can help! The guide links to primary sources including links to federal statutes, regulations, and agencies, Ohio Revised, Code, and other Health Care Reform Sources. Secondary sources include current awareness and articles, treatises and hornbooks, and blogs. You can always contact a reference librarian for more help with health law research. Call the reference desk, (330) 972-7330, stop by the library, or see http://law.uakron.libguides.com/librarystaff.

NEW Asia Study Abroad Program and Travel Resources from the Law Library

Dean Matthew J. Wilson recently signed an exciting partnership agreement with Nagoya University in Japan and Kyung Hee University in South Korea. With this agreement, all three universities will be working together to provide an amazing study abroad experience in Asia for Akron law students. The four-week program will prepare students for international careers as well as the practice of law across cultures.

For more information, the Law Library has recently created a useful Asia Study Abroad Travel Guide. The library has also recently acquired new books on travel in Asia, which are available in the casebooks section for four hours at a time. The books available are:

  • Tokyo by Rebecca Milner and Simon Richmond
  • Seoul by Trent Holden and Simon Richmond

See someone at the circulation desk to borrow these books.

Studying abroad can not only provide academic benefits, but professional ones as well. We encourage all Akron law students to look through the new Travel Guide and books to learn more about Asia and consider if studying abroad is for them.

(This post and the Travel Guide were written by Kent State Library Student Kaleigh Pisani-Paige.)

 

Looking for a Paper Topic?

The library’s guide, Picking a Paper Topic can help!  The guide links to blogs and legal news sites where you can get ideas, as well as suggestions for using Lexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg and BNA to find topics.  The guide also shows you how to find circuit splits, which can make for great paper topics.  You can always contact a reference librarian for more help picking or narrowing your paper topic.  Call  the reference desk, (330) 972-7330, or stop by, or see the  Contact information for library staff.