New Acquisitions:
View the New Acquisitions online here. If you see an item of interest, click on the title to go to the full record in SALLY. There are also links to tables of contents, publishers’ descriptions, and contributors’ biographical information.

Library Hours:
Intersession:
August 3 - August 17, 2008
8:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M.
seven days a week.
Regular hours will resume on
Monday, August 18.
For details, go to the
Legal Research Center web site.

Other Stories:

• • United Nations Materials Now Available on HeinOnline
  
• • California Law Library Takes Depository Honors
  
• • Make-up Session
  
• • Forward Obiter Dictum

United Nations Materials Now Available on HeinOnline
LRC patrons can now access the complete collection of the United Nations Treaty Series in PDF format via HeinOnline. The Series has been published since 1946 and contains all texts of treaties and international agreements registered with and published by the Secretariat of the United Nations. The collection also features International Court of Justice case law dating back to the late eighteenth century.

Also included are many U.N. Yearbooks, such as the Yearbook of the International Law Commission (1949-current), the International Court of Justice Yearbook (1946-current), the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Yearbook, (1969-current), and the United Nations Juridical Yearbook (1963-current).

Of special interest for international law scholars is the United Nations Legislative Series, which reproduces texts of contemporary national legislation on matters of international concern. This series was designed as a means of making the evidence of customary international law more readily available. The series covers such topics as the law of the sea, treaties, nationality, privileges and immunities, succession of States, jurisdictional immunities, multilateral treaty-making procedures and the prevention and suppression of international terrorism.

California Law Library Takes Depository Honors
The U.S. Government Printing Office has named California’s Law Library for San Bernardino County as the 2008 Federal Depository Library of the Year. The library services the largest county in the United States. The library has made great strides in offering its residents resources to government information. To meet the needs of its patrons, the library has extended its hours of operation, developed a new and improved user-friendly Web site and offers the AskNow Law Librarian online reference service. The library staff also conducts extensive public outreach by promoting law library materials and services to civic and community organizations.

On Friday, November 14th, at 10:00 A.M., in the LRC Administrative OfficeLexis trainer Andrea Sevetson will again provide in-depth instruction on LexisNexis’ Congressional Suite consisting of hearings and the Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC). This is a repeat for those who were not able to attend the training on October 10th.

The hearings database contains the full text of congressional committee hearings, related reports, statistical analyses, exhibits and correspondence inserted into the record from 1824 to the present, and the CRDC contains full-text congressional committee prints from 1830 to the present and Congressional Research Service Reports from 1916 to the present. Please contact Instruction and Outreach Specialist Judith Lihosit at ext. 4752 or at jlihosit@sandiego.edu if you’d like to attend.

Forward Obiter Dictum
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