Library System

The Undergraduate Library, Purdy Kresge Library, Science & Engineering Library, Neef Law Library, Shiffman Medical Library @ Applebaum, and the Shiffman Medical Library @ Rackham will close at 6:00 pm Friday, December 21, 2007 and will reopen to the public at 8:00 am, January 2, 2008. The Shiffman Medical Library @ Scott Hall will be open for limited hours during the break. For a full listing of library hours, including Scott Hall university break hours, please go to: http://www.lib.wayne.edu/geninfo/library_hours/index.php

Are you interested in learning more about teaching and learning resources? Or hearing ideas and commentary from faculty and staff associated with the Office for Teaching and Learning at Wayne State University? For those items and more, visit the all new Office for Teaching and learning blog, featuring bloggers OTL faculty fellow Bill Warters, and OTL Program Coordinator, Kristi Jordan.

The blog includes OTL news and events as well as resources for faculty, links to Educause blogs and other ideas to enhance and support teaching and learning.

Visit the blog at: http://cgi.lib.wayne.edu/blog/otl

The WILD (interlibrary loan and document delivery) system will be unavailable on Thursday, November 29th from 9:00 a.m. until approximately 1:00 p.m. We apologize for the inconvenience. Instead, please use:

• From database citations, click Request Digital Delivery
• From PubMed, use Loansome Doc
• Or, enter requests into https://arlir.iii.com/nonret

Unaffliated users or for all questions or concerns, please contact us:

General library or main campus users: 313-577-4011
Shiffman Medical Library users: 313-577-1094
Neef Law Library users: 313-577-6170

Washington and Lee University School of Law provides free access to table of contents of over 1200 law journals. The web address for this service is http://law.wlu.edu/library/cljc.

This web page provides a high level of customized awareness services. It allows you to view table of contents for law journal issues, keyword search article citations & abstracts sorted by country, and link from an article citation to the full text in Lexis, Westlaw, BEPress, SSRN and other databases.

Dynamically produced RSS feeds of law journals pages are also available. Over 1250 feeds are now included in the ‘cljc.opml’ file placed in the ‘RSS’ folder of the Pipeline Law School and Law Library portal; use your RSS reader to import this file.

This new electronic resource is now included in the “Articles and Databases” page that you can reach by following the “Find Articles and Databases” link of the Law Library home page.

The Law Library is pleased to announce the subscription to Journal of Tort Law (JTL) via our BEPress subscription. Its fist issue is already posted.

 

To access this journal from campus or remotely, you have to search its title via the WSU Libraries Online Journals web page located at
 

http://www.lib.wayne.edu/resources/journals/index.php
 

Click on “ResearchNow” link in the retrieved record. The browser will display the Berkeley Electronic Press web page for JTL.

 

On this page you can also configure several alert services for this resource: e-mail, customized searches (‘bealert’) and RSS feed.
 

 

is now available in pdf format via the online library catalog (search by title)

The Law Library redesigned, bare bones website went live on July 11, 2006. 

Old content is undergoing updating and will be added as it is revised. Much of the redesign is a direct response to the feedback from a focus group of law students and law faculty.Please send your comments to Michael Samson (ad4092@wayne.edu) and Georgia Clark (ad5236@wayne.edu) so that we can continue to improve our web services

The Wayne State University Libraries’ updated privacy policy is now posted on the Web at http://www.lib.wayne.edu/sitewide/privacy.php

The privacy policy explains our users’ privacy and confidentiality rights, the steps that the Library System takes to respect and protect our users’ privacy and how we deal with personally identifiable information that we collect from our users.