NeefLawLibrary

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The Arthur Neef Law Library of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, seeks an energetic and enthusiastic lawyer/librarian to fill the position of Instruction Services Librarian. The Law Library is a major unit of the Wayne State University Library System. The law library is noted for its public service mission. With over 600,000 volumes, it serves as a major center of legal research for law school faculty and students, all other university faculty and students, members of the local and state bar, representatives of state and federal agencies, alumni and people from the community.

Essential Functions: Reporting to the Law Library Director and serving as the Liaison to the Law School’s Legal Writing and Research program, the primary responsibilities include: Coordination and participation in instruction of law students and students from other university departments; participate on the University Libraries Instruction Team; coordination and participation in 1L instruction in legal research techniques utilizing electronic and print resources; coordination of Lexis, Westlaw and CALI services; develop and market instruction services in partnership with faculty; participate in the delivery of reference and research support services as well as the development and delivery of all other client services and other duties as assigned.

Qualification: M.L.S. from an ALA accredited program by date of hire; JD from an ABA accredited program by date of hire; experience with reference, research and library instruction in an academic law library; demonstrated skills in instructional technology; strong service orientation; excellent oral and written communication skills; interpersonal and organizational skills; working knowledge of Lexis, Westlaw and CALI; ability to work cooperatively in a collaborative environment; and a willingness to work one evening per week and a rotational Saturday.

The Campus and University Libraries: The University Library System includes Public Services, Shiffman Medical Library, Arthur Neef Law Library, Library Computing & Media Services, Collections & Scholarly Communications, UGE 1000, Library and Information Science Program, Office for Teaching and Learning, Detroit Area Library Network (DALNET) and Library Administrative Services. For more information, please visit: http://www.lib.wayne.edu/.

Salary and Benefits: Salary and rank to be determined commensurately with qualifications and experience. The university offers an array of outstanding benefits including dental and health care plan options, TIAA-CREF or Fidelity, tuition assistance for employees and family, relocation assistance and liberal vacation allowance.

Application Procedure: Please submit electronically a complete resume and letter of interest including the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses of at least three professional references to posting number 034080: Wayne State University’s ON-LINE HIRING SYSTEM at https://jobs.wayne.edu.

Applications accepted until position is filled. For additional information about the position specifics contact Georgia Clark ab5236@wayne.edu.

Wayne State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

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Any Wayne State employee can create a temporary AccessID that a guests/visitor to WSU's main or medical campuses can use to access the Internet via the university's Wireless Network, wireless@wayne. In doing so, you accept responsibility for the guest's use of networked resources, according to Wayne State's Policy on the Acceptable Use of Information Technology Resources.

The policy was set up to accommodate visiting faculty, conference presenters, and other “known” affiliates. If anyone requests these access IDs, we are to refer them to the appropriate academic department, which will be responsible for determining the person’s credentials, etc. Since the system is set up for these IDs to be generated from our own access ID and password, we certainly do not want to create IDs for people we do not know.

To create a temporary Guest Wireless AccessID or check on the status of a temporary AccessID you created, log in to the Guest Wireless Access System below: http://computing.wayne.edu/network/guestwireless-login.php

With the support of the University Libraries, the Law School will be initiating its own Legal Studies Research Paper Series. SSRN, which was founded in 1994, offers expedited digital distribution of new scholarship. The personalized Research Paper Series, which is being used by an increasing number of institutions, will likely increase downloads by more than 50% compared with the individual submission process.

Professor Linda Beale will serve as Editor of the Wayne State Law School Legal Studies Journal.

Below is the extract from http://www.usa.gov/About/FirstGov_Faq.shtml

Why did you change your name from FirstGov.gov to USA.gov?

We did it because you asked us to. On December 5, 2006, FirstGov.gov announced that it changed its name to USA.gov. Feedback from the public told us that we need a name that is easier to understand and remember. We pay attention to our visitors and here's what we know:
-Last year more than 600,000 people typed in "usa.gov" into their browser when searching for government information.
-In a 2006 telephone survey, 79% of respondents preferred the name USA.gov.
-USA.gov is intuitive-it describes what our site is-the U.S.
Government online.
-We regularly get e-mail from the public telling us that they don't like the name and that we should change it and our colleagues send the same message.

Michigan Association of Law Libraries Annual Spring Meeting
May 10 and 11
Wayne State University, Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium

A Two-Day Event

DAY 1: THE INTERSECTION OF MEDICAL & LEGAL RESEARCH

Featuring:

-The Intersection of Medical and Legal Issues: Professor Albert J. Dib, Esq.
-Health Information Privacy: Professor Lance Gable, JD, MPH
-Research on Medical and Legal Issues: Ellen Marks, Director, Shiffman Medical Library and Michael Tillman-Davis, Public Service Librarian, Arthur Neef Law Library
-Trainers from LexisNexis Academic and Westlaw

DAY 2: PROACTIVE LIBRARIANSHIP

Featuring:

Proactive Librarianship: Knowledge, Innovation, and Leadership for Library Professionals: LaVentra Ellis Danquah, MLIS, Shiffman Medical Library

For more information go to: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/michall/meetings/2007annual/index.htm

CALI created an excellent blog for CALI services promotion at

http://resources_for_cali_representatives.classcaster.org/blog/

Here you will find templates/form letters, PowerPoint presentations, handouts, flyers, etc. for promoting all CALI services.

Capture its RSS feed to your reader at:

http://www.classcaster.org/rss.php?blogId=304&profile=rss20

Campus and remote access to the United Nations Treaty Collection is now available via the WSU Library catalog.

Use your AccessID & password for remote access by following the link in the library catalog record.

Both wired and wireless printing are now available in the Law School and Law Library.

Instructions and printing drivers are posted at

http://printing.wayne.edu

NOTE:

- you need to have administrator rights on the laptop in order to install the drivers
- do NOT change the name of the printers after installation

We are pleased to announce that the University Libraries has purchased a campus wide site license for the Chronicle of Higher Education. This means that there is no longer a need to purchase individual subscriptions or remember passwords.

To access this journal from campus or remotely simply visit the law library homepage and select "The Chronicle of Higher Education" from the "Articles and Databases" menu or directly by going to: http://proxy.lib.wayne.edu:2048/login?url=http://chronicle.com

Email alerts and news feeds (RSS feeds) are available from many of the sections of the Chronicle of Higher Education Online. For a quick summary of what users now have access to, please visit the Chronicle?s site map at:
http://chronicle.com/search/guide/

You can set up preferences to either read it online, or receive e-mail reminders as you used to receive in the past. RSS feeds are posted at

http://chronicle.com/help/rss.htm

Recently the university announced the ending of free dial-in Internet service for students, faculty, and staff on July 2, 2007. The official posting is on the Computing & Information Technology (C&IT) Website at:

http://computing.wayne.edu/notices/02-14-07--dialin.php

Please visit these C&IT's web pages in order to:

* Find an Internet Service Provider at:

http://computing.wayne.edu/isp

This Web page includes the following:
- reviews & descriptions of Internet services(DSL, cable, ISDN, dial-up, wireless)
- comparisons of these Internet services, and
- search sites for Internet Service Providers in the U.S. and Canada.

* Frequently Asked Questions about the Ending of Wayne State's Free Dial-in Service at:

http://computing.wayne.edu/WSUdialinend-faq.php

* Access the Internet on and off campus:

http://computing.wayne.edu/internetaccess/

To help members of the university community find an Internet service for their home and learn more about the different types of connection services available, the Computing & Information Technology and Business & Auxiliary Operations Divisions are co-hosting a Communications Services Fair to bring Internet service providers and cellular phone providers to campus. Representatives will be available during the day on Thursday, April 5 to present and promote their services.
Stay tuned for more on this exciting event!

C&IT Help Desk for personal assistance:

(313) 577-4778 or helpdesk@wayne.edu

If you are using Internet Explorer 7 and encounter problems displaying PDF files in Westlaw you will be able to fix the problem in several ways.

I. Use the control-key (marked "Ctrl" on most PC keyboards) when clicking on the link for the PDF file

If this will not work for you then

II. Change the security of the trusted sites to "Medium-Low" in IE7 by following these steps:

1. In Internet Explorer, go to the "Tools" drop down box (upper right hand corner). From the drop down box, select "Internet Options."
2. Next, select Security tab at the top of the Internet Options box and then make sure the Internet icon is highlighted.
3. Drag the slider under the "Security level for this zone" to "Medium-low". Click the "OK" button and exit the "Internet Options".

If this will not work for you then

III. Enable "Automatic prompting for file downloads" by following these steps:

1. In Internet Explorer, go to the "Tools" drop down box (upper right hand corner). From the drop down box, select "Internet Options"
2. Next, select "Privacy" tab. If "Turn on PopUp Blocker" is checked, then click on "Settings".
3. After clicking on "Settings", an address box should appear. Type in *.westlaw.com then click "Add". Then click "Close".
4. Next, select "Security" tab at the top of the Internet Options box and then make sure the Internet icon is highlighted.
5. Next, select "Custom Level."
6. Next, scroll down (about half way) until you see "Downloads" as a main heading. Directly below "Downloads" is the subheading "Automatic prompting for file downloads". Directly below this subheading is "Enable". Make sure the radio button next to "Enable" is checked. Then, click OK. At next screen, click OK again.

WSU C and IT department provides you with help regarding e-mail spamming and phishing.

Use the links below to learn how to deal with

• spamming: http://computing.wayne.edu/notices/05-10-06--spam.php
• phishing: http://computing.wayne.edu/security/phishing.php

Washington and Lee University School of Law provides free access to table of contents of over 1200 law journals. The web address for this service is http://law.wlu.edu/library/cljc.

This web page provides a high level of customized awareness services. It allows you to view table of contents for law journal issues, keyword search article citations and abstracts sorted by country, and link from an article citation to the full text in Lexis, Westlaw, BEPress, SSRN and other databases.

Dynamically produced RSS feeds of law journals pages are also available. Over 1250 feeds are now included in the ‘cljc.opml’ file placed in the ‘RSS’ folder of the Pipeline Law School and Law Library portal; use your RSS reader to import this file.

This new electronic resource is now included in the “Articles and Databases” page that you can reach by following the “Find Articles and Databases” link of the Law Library home page.

The Law Library is pleased to announce the subscription to Journal of Tort Law (JTL) via our BEPress subscription. Its fist issue is already posted.

To access this journal from campus or remotely, you have to search its title via the WSU Libraries Online Journals web page located at

http://www.lib.wayne.edu/resources/journals/index.php

Click on “ResearchNow” link in the retrieved record. The browser will display the Berkeley Electronic Press web page for JTL. On this page you can also configure several alert services for this resource: e-mail, customized searches ('bealert') and RSS feed.

If you have question or need help setting up alert services for this resource please contact me by phone or e-mail.

MichALL will be hosting its annual Spring Meeting at the Spencer Partrich Auditorium in the Wayne State University Law School Thursday & Friday May 10 & 11, 2007. This year's meeting will be a two-day event that addresses information for everyone!

The topic for Day One is "The Intersection of Medical and Legal Issues," which features Professor Albert J. Dib, Esq. of Dib, Fagan and Fault, P.C. and Professor Lance Gable, WSU Law Professor and Scholar at the Center for Law and the Public's Health of Georgetown & Johns Hopkins Universities.

This day will also feature cross-training for medical and law librarians as well as introductions to important tools for these two groups provided by LexisNexis Academic and Westlaw.

Day Two will help librarians of all types progress professionally, no matter where you are on your career path. "Proactive Librarianship: Knowledge, Innovation and Leadership for Library Professionals," presented by LaVentra Ellis-Danquah of the Shiffman Medical Library at WSU, will provide valuable information for new librarians, as well as experienced librarians concerned about the state of librarianship as they plan their exits.

Plan to join us in May!

Larissa V. Sullivant, MichAll President
Lauren M. Collins, MichAll Vice President/President Elect

all 13 podcasts are now posted at http://profhenning.classcaster.org

A new folder was added to this blog containing all the law library newsletters (faculty and student editions). Copies of these newsletters are also posted on the Law School 'L:' network drive and in the Pipeline Law School & Law Library group portal (Group Tools -> Files -> Library newsletters)

Click to read or download: v1i5-November 2006.pdf or select 'Folders' from the Menu (top right)

available @ http://deanwublog.classcaster.org

Last year, Professor Peter Henning successfully launched weekly podcasts of supplements to his Professional Responsibility class using CALI Classcater. As a part of CALI’s pilot project, Professor Henning was provided with the resources to record and upload supplementary information for his students to a blog supported by CALI’s server. Mchael Samson helped Professor Henning convert and post the weekly sessions.

This year, three new professors are taking on the podcasting challenge. Lance Gable, Linda Beale and Derek Bambauer have all become participants in the CALI Classcaster II project. As their projects progress, we will keep you posted!

The adjunct faculty handbook is now posted on Pipeline in the Adjunct faculty subgroup (Group Tools ->Files->Orientation folder).

Weekly summary of classes are posted @

http://profhenning.classcaster.org

Presentation offered in two formats:

• one single, 24 MB files in 'mht' format (multi-part HTML); this file will open ONLY in Internet Explorer 5 or above; file is posted here: MLA2006.mht
• as a web site, in a zipped folder (10 MB); after downloading and unzipping, open the MLA2006 folder and use the 'index.htm' file to start the presentation; file is posted here: mla2006.zip

The Law Library redesigned, bare bones website went live on July 11, 2006.

Old content is undergoing updating and will be added as it is revised. Much of the redesign is a direct response to the feedback from a focus group of law students and law faculty.Please send your comments to Michael Samson (ad4092@wayne.edu) and Georgia Clark (ad5236@wayne.edu) so that we can continue to improve our web services.

"Piping hot content from your library with CALI Classcaster Intrablogs" can be opened or saved locally by clicking on cali2006.ppt.

The US Courts web site provides a new search tool for finding courts

http://www.uscourts.gov/contact.html

Westlaw Watch (www.watch.westlaw.com) is another clipping service that provides real-time awareness services for customized searches via HTML, RSS, XML, and e-mail. The other real-time awareness service is West Intraclip (westintraclip.westlaw.com)

All library's Blogger blogs (see 'Links' under 'Menu') were saved in mht format (will open with IE 5.0 or above ONLY) and posted on this site (each one under its own 'Category'). You can also view/download them from the 'Folders' (under 'Menu', top right)

Starting February 2006 we plan to promote the law library resources and services using the CALI Classcaster. We plan to provide several blogs, weekly or monthly summary podcasts and links to multimedia files located on the law school and law library networks. We will also look into transferring all blogs (see under 'Links', main menu) to the Classcaster 'categories' , with separate RSS feeds for each and every category.

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