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:
For regular hours and details, go to the Legal Research Center Web site.

Other Stories:

• • IM Reference
  
• • Climate Research
  
• • Legal Information eJournal
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IM Reference
LRC reference service, already renowned for efficiency and accuracy, is becoming even faster with the initiation of an instant messaging service, IM Reference. Look for the LRC IM message box (Copley will have one too) on the SALLY search page soon. If the box indicates that a reference librarian is online, enter your reference request and receive a real time response. During the trial phase, librarians will be online from 1:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. Mondays through Fridays. Depending upon response to this service, these hours may be expanded in the future.

Climate Research
In conjunction with the law school’s inaugural Climate and Energy Law symposium, the LRC suggests the following reading list of recently acquired materials:

> Bert Bolin, A History of the Science and Politics of Climate Change: The Role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (QC981.8.C5 B643 2007)
> John M. Deutch et al., Energy Security and Climate Change: A Report to the Trilateral Commission (HD9502.A2 D456 2007)
> Michael B. Gerrard, ed., Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (KF3775.G56 2007)
> Roger Guesnerie & Henry Tulkens, The Design of Climate Policy (QC981.8.C5 D436 2008)
> J. Robinson et al., Climate Change Law: Emissions Trading in the EU and UK (KJE6249.C55 2007)
> Gabrielle Sigel et al., Emerging Issues in Environmental Law and Climate Change (KF3812.E46 2008)
> Steve Vanderheiden, ed., Political Theory and Global Climate Change (QC981.8.C5 P657 2008)

Researchers will also want to consult the Climate Change law and Policy Reporter , located at KF3812.A15 C55.

Legal Information eJournal
A new eJournal, LEGAL INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY, has been added to the Legal Scholarship Network. This eJournal includes topics such as: the impact of legal information on domestic, comparative, and international legal systems; the treatment of legal information authorities and precedents (e.g., citation studies); and the examination of rules, practices, and commentary limiting or expanding applications of legal information (e.g., citation to unpublished opinions and to foreign law). Articles also investigate the study of economic, legal, political, and social conditions limiting or extending access to legal information (e.g., trends in the legal publishing industry, intellectual property regimes, and open access initiatives); the finding and use of legal information by academics to produce legal scholarship, by law students to learn the law, by attorneys in practice, and by judges and others decision makers to determine legal outcomes; and the history of legal information systems and technological advancements. Furthermore, the journal publishes research on legal information system design and assessment and the relationship of substantive areas of law (such as information law, intellectual freedom, intellectual property, and national security law) and other academic disciplines (e.g., information science) to legal information.

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