From the Director
Professor Ann Puckett
If you've been around the law school awhile, you may have heard one of my recurring complaints: this library is out of space! We are so desperately short of book storage space that we've spent the last three years discarding redundant and superseded books just to make enough room for the new arrivals.
Study space for students is way too crowded and noisy. We need more carrels, fewer chairs at each study table, more space between tables, and, most of all, group study rooms.
Several other space concerns are less visible, but just as critical. Computer labs are too small and not very adaptable for teaching. The Law Library's priceless collection of rare books and manuscripts is kept under conditions that guarantee its deterioration. Some staff work spaces are so cramped they affect work quality, and there is no room for staff expansion.
We have explored a number of possibilities for solving our space problem,
without much promise. We can't go underground -- too much rock. We can't
go up -- insufficient foundation on the building. We can't go out --
not enough space around our existing buildings. We are nearing the end
of the number of books we can throw away without damaging the collection
beyond reprieve. We are replacing some hard copy with microfiche,
but that is too expensive to do on a very large
scale, and not very popular with library users either. We could store
books off-site, but no suitable space exists, and building new space is
expensive wherever you build it.
So imagine my elation when I learned the main University library, whose
space problems are even more severe than ours, is planning to build a building
to house all its special collections AND a high-density book storage facility.
What's more, they want us to help with the project,
in return for which we would share the use of the building.
The new facility won't solve all our space problems, but with less space devoted to book storage we should be able to make some positive changes in user space. For instance, we might remove one bay of compact shelves and put in tables so you can use the books in the basement instead of lugging them upstairs. The tiny rare book room we have now could add to the computer lab or become a group study room.
These changes are some years in the future, probably longer than any currently enrolled student will see, but they are a ray of hope for a library staff that has struggled for years to cope with our limited space.
I hope your holidays were relaxing and joyous. In this new year we welcome
a new face, Wendy Moore, Acquisitions and Serials Librarian. She succeeds
Martha Hampton, who retired in October after 19 years of distinguished
service to the Law Library. Ms. Moore is profiled
elsewhere in this newsletter.
Have a great semester!
[Ed. note: For news about current renovations at the Main Library, including a link to the list of government documents kept onsite, see http://www.libs.uga.edu/admin/hvacpub1.html.]
Wendy Moore Joins Library Staff
Wendy E. Moore is the new Serials/Acquisitions librarian in the University of Georgia Law Library. Wendy comes to us from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, where she has worked as the Serials Librarian for the previous five years. During that time, Wendy also stepped in and served as Acting Head of Cataloging and Acting Systems Librarian, giving her a great deal of experience with the Innovative Interfaces System, which is the online system used by the UGA Law Library (you know the online catalog portion of this system as GAVEL). The Law Library is delighted that she will be bringing this experience to the position formerly held by Martha Hampton.
Wendy hails from Omaha, Nebraska originally, and she graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, magna cum laude with a major in history and a minor in art history. She earned her Master of Science in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has been active professionally, serving on various Furman University Committees and as a member of the Electronic Communications Committee of the North American Serials Interest Group.
In her spare time, Wendy enjoys drawing, reading, weight-lifting and aerobics.
Look for Wendy in Office A-103, on the first floor of the Annex, and occasionally at the Reference Desk in the evenings and on weekends.
A Gentle Reminder to Our Gentle Readers
Spilled beverages and food remnants wreak havoc on the library's precious resources: the books and computers! The Law Library's policy prohibiting food and beverages in the library is set forth clearly in the library guide, which is distributed to all law students during orientation. In addition, signs stating the policy are posted in prominent locations in the library. Please do not cause library staff to spend their time "reminding" you of the policy or, worse yet, cleaning up after you.
Lab Notes (I'd Like My Free Copies, Please)
With the advent of the new semester, each law student (J.D. and L.L.M.)
receives 200 free copies or print jobs. As in the past, the procedure for
obtaining the free copies/prints is as follows:
Note: The computer labs will close periodically for 1L training on Lexis and Westlaw during the first two weeks of the semester. Also, if you've forgotten either or both of your passwords, ask for help at the Reference Desk.
Remember: for computer-related assistance, contact the Help Desk at 542-0895 or via e-mail at lawhelp@uga.cc.uga.edu.
*When purchasing copy cards from the vending machine, please read the posted directions very carefully to avoid losing money.
Changes on the Main Floor
The Federal Practice Digest 3rd, which has been shelved on the Main
Floor between the Copy Room and the Reading Room, is now shelved in the
Basement with the call number KF 127 W48 1984 (next to the first and second
editions). This move frees up space for the expanding 4th edition.
The old card catalog under the portraits near the entrance to the library has been replaced by shelving to accommodate the growing Shepard's collection. Please note that the state Shepard's volumes now occupy the the shelves along the wall, while the regional, federal and specialty Shepard's remain on the index tables. For assistance in locating a particular volume, please ask at the Reference Desk.
Law a la Mode
The UGA Science Library may have the Joy of Cooking, but gastronomes won't leave the Law Library empty-handed! In Kirkwood Agri-Trade v. Frosty Land Foods International, 650 F.2d 602 (1981), the Fifth Circuit defines four kinds of tripe and cites to a recipe for tripes a la nicoise in 2 J. Child and S. Beck, Mastering the Art of French Cooking 244-46.
Recent Faculty Publications
The following are the 1998 UGA law faculty publications as reported to the Law Library. This month's library display case features recent faculty publications as well - stop and take a look at what your professors and colleagues have been writing.
Milner Ball: A Little Mistrust Now and Then, 66 U of Cinn L Rev 877 (1998)The faculty was very productive during the year, publishing 11 books; 69 articles, monographs and book chapters; and 19 book supplements and teaching materials.... I have been very impressed with the incredible diversity of the faculty's research interest and the excellence of their scholarship.
Dean David Shipley, 1998 Annual Report
Ronald Carlson: New Medicine for Scientific Proof, Journal of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Spring 1998; Were you Lying Then or Are You Lying Now?, Journal of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Fall 1998; Death Knell for Self-Serving Hearsay, Journal of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Winter, 1998; An American Original: A Tribute to Judge Myron Bright,83 Minn. L. Rev. 235, 1998; Compromise Statements and Compromising Situations, Journal of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, Summer 1998; Objections at Trial. (Lexis/Michie, 1998)(With Bright & Imwinkelried); Virginia Objections at Trial (Lexis/Michie, 1998) (with Young, Curtis, & Bright)
Dan Coenen: Business Subsidies and the Dormant Commerce Clause, 107 Yale L. J. 965 (1998)
Dorinda Dallmeyer: The Individual in a Global Society (Radio Series co-sponsored by The American Society of International Law and The Dean Rusk Center for International and Comparative Law); Improving Incentives for Compliance with Nonproliferation Regimes in Trilateral Perspectives on International Legal Issues: From Theory into Practice (Transnational Publishers, 1998)
Anne Dupre: Disability, Deference, and the Integrity of the Academic Enterprise (Symposium: Law in the Public Schools), 32 Ga. L. Rev. 393 (1998)
Paul Heald: Literature and Legal Problem Solving: Law and Literature as Ethical Discourse (Editor) (Carolina Academic Press, 1998); A Guide to Law and Literature for Teachers, Students, and Researchers (Carolina Academic Press, 1998); Sunbeam Products, Inc. v. The West Bend Co: Exposing the Malign Application of the Federal Dilution Statute to Product Configurations, 5 J of Intell Prop L 415 (1998); Remedies for the Misappropriation of Intellectual Property by State and Municipal Governments Before and After Seminole Tribe: The Eleventh Amendment and Immunity Doctrines, 55 Wash & Lee L Rev. 849(1998)
Walter Hellerstein: State and Local Taxation of Electronic Commerce: Reflections on the Emerging Issues, 52 U Miami L Rev 691 (1998); Electronic Commerce and the Future of State Taxation, in The Future of State Taxation (1998)(David Brunoir, ed.); Taxation of Telecommunications, in Telecommunications: Law, Regulation, and Policy (1998)(Walt Sapronov & William H. Read, eds.); U.S. Supreme Court: Review and Preview in Proceedings of the New York University Institute On State and Local Taxation (New York: Matthew Bender, 1998)
Paul Kurtz: Annual Survey of Periodical Literature (family law), 31 Fam. L.Q. 823 (1998); Family Law: Cases, Text, Problems, 3rd ed. (Charlottesville, VA: Lexis Law Pub., 1998)
Ed Larson: John Mitchell in American National Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998)
Julian McDonnell: Securing Consumer Credit Card Accounts with Goods Purchased: Celebration of Freedom or Exercise in Bondage, 31 UCC L.J. No. 3 (Winter 1998)
Richard Nagareda: Outrageous Fortune and the Criminalization of Mass Torts, 96 Mich. L. Rev. 1121 (1998)
Thomas Schoenbaum: The Duty of Utmost Good Faith in Marine Insurance Law, 29 Jrl. Mar. L. & Com. 1 (1998); Trilateral Perspectives on International Legal Issues: From Theory into Practice (Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers, 1998) (with Junji Nakagawa and Linda C. Reif); Restrictive Business Practices and Market Contestability in International Trade Law, id.
Perry Sentell: Tort Claims Against the State: Georgia's Compensation System, 32 U Ga L Rev 1103 (1998); The Six Member Civil Jury: In Georgia?, Georgia Bar Journal p. 16 (October 1998)
Jim Smith: Real Estate Transactions: Cases and Materials on Law, Markets, and Ethics (Gaithersburg, MD: Aspen Publishing, 1998)(with Robin Malloy)
Edward Spurgeon: Federal Taxation of Trusts, Grantors and Beneficiaries - Income, Estate, Gift, Generation-Skipping Transfers 3rd ed. (Boston: MA, Warren, Gorham & Lamont, 1998)
Erwin Surrency: Is a Universal Collection of Treaties Feasible? An Appraisal of the U.N. Treaty Series, 90 L. Libr. J. 77 (1998)
Alan Watson: Jesus: A Profile (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998); Ancient Law and Modern Understanding at the Edges (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1998); The Digest of Justinian 2nd ed. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998); Sources of Law, Legal Change and Ambiguity 2nd ed. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)
Richard Wellman: New UPC Section Provides Remedies for Decedents' Creditors Against Nonprobate Transfers at Death, 9 Probate J. of Ohio 1 (1998)
Michael Wells: Naked Politics, Federal Courts Law, and the Canon of Acceptable Arguments, 47 Emory L. J. 89 (1998)
Rebecca White: Employment Law and Employment Discrimination: Essential Terms and Concepts (New York, NY: Aspen Law and Business, 1998).
Library Hours
Library Hours
The Law Library's regular hours are:
Monday - Friday 7:30am - Midnight
Saturday - Sunday 8:00am - Midnight
Over the Martin Luther King Holiday
Saturday, January 16 9:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday, January 17 CLOSED
Monday, January 18 6:00pm - Midnight
Tuesday, January 19 return to regular hours
Please note that the Law Library's hours for the academic year are determined
at the beginning of each fiscal year and are published on the Web at http://www.lawsch.uga.edu/lawlib/hours.html.
Any changes to the hours will be posted in the newsletter and on signs
in the Law Library.
Staff News
Wendy Moore joins the library staff as the new Serials/Acquisitions Librarian. For more about Wendy, please see the article on p. 2 of this newsletter. Anne Burnett, Reference/Foreign & Int'l Law Librarian, spent nearly a month in Buenos Aires, Argentina, working with the staff of the Biblioteca Central at the Universidad del Salvador. The visit was funded by a United States Information Agency grant, which will provide for additional exchanges between UGA Law School faculty and law faculty from the Universidad del Salvador. Joyce Moss, Administrative Secretary for the Law Library, is the new UGA Staff Council representative from the School of Law. She will be working on the Health and Safety Committee. Joyce states that the Council "is a very worthwhile organization and does good things for staff benefits. I have enjoyed meeting folks from the other schools around campus." Professor Ann Puckett, Law Library Director, serves on the boards of Georgia Options in Community Living, an organization that facilitates integration of people with severe disabilities into the community, and Project Safe, a shelter for battered women and their children. In addition, she will attend the Association of American Law Schools annual meeting in New Orleans January 7-10. Maureen Cahill, Reference/Faculty Services Librarian, also serves on the board of Project Safe. Amanda Tonge, Cataloging Assistant, is leaving the library to undertake a Criminal Justice practicum.
This newsletter is a publication of the University of Georgia School
of Law Library. Read it on the Web at http://www.lawsch.uga.edu/newsletter/index.html.
Please send all comments and contributions to:
Anne Burnett
UGA School of Law Library
Athens, Georgia 30602
aburnett@arches.uga.edu