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New Video Interviews Available in Spinelli’s!

Miranda Rosati — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:14:44 +0000

The next installment of video interviews has been added to Spinelli’s Law Library Reference Shelf in the Oral Histories of Law Librarianship Section. The new videos include interviews with:

Frank Y. Liu – Professor of Law and Director, Center for Legal Information Duquesne University
Lolly Gasaway – Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina
Susan J. Lewis – Associate Director for Public Services, Pence Law Library American University
Rich Leiter – Professor of Law and Director of the Marvin and Virginia Schmid Law Library, University of Nebraska
Charlie Dyer – Retired Director of Libraries and Secretary to the Board, San Diego County Public Law Library
Cindy Adams – Co-Director of Library Services, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Mike Beaird – Retired Director of the Law Library and Associate Professor of Law Emeritus, The University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Nancy Johnson – Associate Dean for Library and Information Services and Professor of Law, Georgia State University
Anne Klinefelter – Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, University of North Carolina
Pam Gregory – Retired Law Librarian Circuit Court for Prince Georges, Maryland

The interviews are conducted by Patrick Kehoe, former AALL President, Michelle Wu, Director of the Law Library Georgetown University and Frank Houdek, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Southern Illinois University.

Log in to Spinelli’s Law Library Reference Shelf, and you will see a link to the videos on the left side of the page under Collection Resources. Or, watch a preview of the videos here:

May 2013 Trivia Contest

Miranda Rosati — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:52:29 +0000

Following is the HeinOnline May Trivia Contest:

Roxanne Marmion and Miranda Rosati missed the National Festival by a couple of days, but still got a picture in front of these flowering trees. Can you name what city Roxanne and Miranda are visiting in the below picture?

E-mail your guess to marketing@wshein.com by May 27, 2013. If you can name the location pictured above, you’ll be entered to win a Where in the World is Hein t-shirt. Be sure to include your name, organization or institution, and your mailing address. We’ll announce the winner in a follow-up blog post and in the monthly HeinOnline Newsletter, so stay tuned!

April Trivia Contest Winner

Miranda Rosati — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:19:10 +0000

Congratulations to our April Trivia Contest Winner:

Maryruth Storer
Orange County Public Law Library

Steve Roses was pictured standing in front of Tommy Trojan at the University of Southern California. The life-size bronze statue of a Trojan warrior sits in the center of campus and serves as a popular meeting spot, as well as a centerpiece for a number of campus events. Learn more»

Maryruth will receive a Where in the World is Hein tshirt for submitting the correct answer and winning our drawing.

Stay tuned for next month’s contest.

Tip of the Week: How to Search the Popular Name Tables in the United States Code

Marcie Baranich — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:27:43 +0000

If you know the name of an Act and want to know where it was codified in the United States Code, the best approach is by searching the Popular Name Tables. This week’s tip demonstrates how to search the Popular Name Tables for the name of the Act.

Watch the Tip of the Week on YouTube, or continue reading below the video for the full-text version.

Each version of the United States Code contains a popular name table, which lists federal acts alphabetically by their official or popular name and provides citations to those acts. The popular name tables are located immediately following title 50 in the United States Code and have each been indexed to allow a researcher to search across just those tables.

The citations include the number assigned to the act, which could be a chapter number or public law number (depending upon when the act was passed), the title(s) and section(s) in the U.S. Code, and any citations to amendments made to the act.

This tip illustrates how to search across just those tables within the U.S. Code.

For our example, we want to find a federal statute in the US Code by the name, in this case, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980.

By looking up the statute in the popular names table, we can easily find the U.S. Code citation for it as well as the public law number with Statutes at Large citation.

In HeinOnline, the popular name tables have all been indexed as “Acts Cited by Popular Name” across the title field. This makes it easy to search across by inserting title: “Acts Cited by Popular Name” into the Advanced Search option. Then we can add keywords to search for the act by name.

The search would thus look like this:

title: “Acts Cited by Popular Name” AND text: “Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980”

This will return 12 results, which you can then sort by volume date ascending or descending.

It’s moving time! Limited support will be available Thursday, 4/11 at 5 p.m. EDT – Monday, 4/15

Marcie Baranich — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:31:21 +0000

Limited support will be available during business hours beginning Thursday, April 11 at 5 p.m. EDT through Monday, April 15

William S. Hein & Co., Inc. will be moving our offices beginning on Thursday, April 11 at 5:00 p.m. EDT through Monday, April 15. During this time, we will have a limited staff available, with limited accessibility to our systems, answering the phones to assist you. Furthermore, we will be moving the HeinOnline servers during this time, which could possibly cause minimal disruptions, though it’s not likely. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at 800-828-7571 or mail@wshein.com. Thank you for your understanding during this move; we are looking forward to reporting to our new home on Monday, April 15.

Questions, comments, or concerns?

Contact us at 800-828-7571 or mail@wshein.com. For more details about the move, including our new address, visit www.wshein.com/move.