“Do I go to law school at Harvard or at Yale?” If you have this happy dilemma, seek the advice of knowledgeable friends. This was the action taken in 1935 when a young man from Schenectady, New York consulted a hometown friend who had recently graduated from the Harvard Law School. Bill Waldron grew up across the street …
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The Harvard Law School Library, Harvard Business School Knowledge and Library Services and the Office for Scholarly Communication are hosting a talk “Transforming Scholarly Communication” by Lee Dirks, Director, Education & Scholarly Communication / Microsoft External Research. The event will take place at 1:15pm in Pound Hall Room 100. For more information about the event and to RSVP, …
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The university’s Office for Scholarly Communication opened its institutional repository DASH to the public in beta this week. See the press release and Harvard Gazette article for more information about the launch. At this point, you will find a modest collection of HLS faculty (HLS Scholarly Articles) and student (HLS Student Papers) content that is growing every day …
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There’s an interesting discussion at LibraryLaw Blog (in response to a post at Dear Rich) about the copyright status of the transcripts of the Nuremberg Trials. Dear Rich’s answer to whether excerpts from speeches of the court justices and witnesses can be reprinted? “The good news is that you can use the transcripts. The bad news is that …
If you missed the Google Books Settlement Workshop co-hosted by HLSL and the Berkman Center at the end of July, here’s a chance to catch quite a lot of it. The Spotlight at Harvard Law School has posted a good summary of the day, as well as videos for three of the panels.
On behalf of all of us here at Harvard Law School Library, I am thrilled to announce that today marks the debut of our new Library organization. For the past year, we have been working together to design a fresh model for the Library that incorporates our three strategic initiatives: providing outstanding service to all our users, especially …
What might a truly “open” global library look like? Regardless of the Google Book Search Settlement outcome, what can libraries, universities, non-profits, or Congress do to keep digital information in the sunshine? On July 31, Alternative Approaches to Open Digital Libraries in the Shadow of the Google Book Search Settlement, a workshop sponsored by the Berkman Center for …
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The Harvard Law School Library is very pleased to announce that the winner of the inaugural Morris L. Cohen Fellowship in American Legal Bibliography and History is Sara Mayeux, a JD—History Ph.D. student at Stanford University. Ms. Mayeux will be conducting research in the Library’s manuscript collections for her project, “A Cultural History of the Criminal Defense Attorney, …
It is not often that the Library has an opportunity to acquire a book or pamphlet about the Harvard Law School that it doesn’t already own. Such an occasion occurred this week when we purchased a pamphlet that not only did we not own but apparently exists only in this copy. The Harvard Manual. Contents: Historical Sketch; Law …
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