Tag Archives: Low Cost Research

Special Announcement for iPad or iPhone users – Free App available.

We interrupt out regularly scheduled blog posts to bring you this special, time-sensitive, announcement:

  • Are you a law student?
  • Do you have an iPhone or iPad?

If you said YES to both of those questions, check out the rulebook app TONIGHT (8/22/12)!

Today only, there you can download the following resources for FREE:

  • Federal Rules
    • Appellate Procedure
    • Bankruptcy Procedure
    • Civil Procedure
    • Criminal Procedure
    • Evidence
  • The Supreme Court Rules
  • The U.S. Constitution
  • Select New York Court Rules

If you need help, feel free to ask at the Reference Desk until 8:00 PM or to send us an email via this form.

Or, just go to the App Store, download rulebook, then – within the app – download each resource in the rulebook library. Here’s a tip – you may have to close the other applications you have open before installing the rulebook app.

Stein Suit (+Subscription)

In only two days, Musikfest will begin in Bethlehem, PA.

Billed as the “nation’s largest free, non-gated music festival,” Musikfest - put on by ArtsQuest, a non-profit organization that celebrates arts and culture - boasts an extensive lineup of acts performing for free, including Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds (video), Royal Southern Brotherhood (video), and Scott Pine and the Conifers (video) among many others.

In the past, people who attended Musikfest commemorated the experience with a stein purchase. For only $69.99, people were offered the opportunity to own a piece of music memorabilia, manufactured in Germany, that could be passed down through the generations.

Instead, according to former ArtsQuest employee Rebecca Stoneback, those steins were actually made in China!

If you can’t trust the music-festival vendor selling you a beer stein for $70, who can you really trust?

Stoneback has now filed two lawsuits against ArtsQuest in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Allentown) in connection with this alleged deception and her firing (5:12-cv-03286-MMB & 5:12-cv-03287-JKG).

Here in the library, we have a trial subscription to Bloomberg Law, which makes docket searching a breeze. So, if you want to read up on the suit, or just have a demonstration of how to do that research, contact the Reference Desk (web form or (904) 680-7612) and we’d be happy to help you.

Tip o’ the hat to Alanna Byrne at Inside Counsel, Strange Lawsuits, from July 25, 2012 for spreading the word about the Stein Scam.

Card Catalog Magic

As you may recall, just this past fall, the LTC launched its new catalog Encore,
Such a fine new tool, you’d be a great fool, if you did not use it to help you find more.
In days long gone by, before the web in the sky, finding information could be quite hard,
You’d search for long days, in so many ways, to find that magical catalog card.

Yale University old catalog cards (video)

The Lighter side of Research!

Hope you enjoyed your spring break and are ready to get back into the swing of things!

Still working on your ALWRs, MSJs, or other legal research projects? Next week, we are offering Workshops in low cost legal research because sometimes Westlaw and LexisNexis do not provide all the answers.

Here is a fun look at legal research: Research tips; Why you should take breaks!; Westlaw vs.LexisNexis

In the Library this Week (March 19 – 25)

- Advanced Bluebooking for Memos & Briefs Workshops;
- Bluebooking for your ALWR Workshops;
- Navigating Lexis & Secondary Sources Training (700 LN Points);
- Cases & Statutes in Lexis Training (700 LN Points);
- Lexis ALWR Help Training (700 LN Points);
- Lexis Certification Training (700 LN Points for Certification);
- Possible Noise from the Atrium at lunch time on both Thursday and Friday.

Workshop and Training schedules and sign-up links are avaialble at http://www.fcsl.edu/ltc/services/workshops.