The Law Library will follow regular hours through Tuesday, 11/24, and be open the following hours during Thanksgiving recess:

• Wednesday 11/25:      9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
• Thanksgiving 11/26:      Closed
• Friday 11/27:      9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
• Saturday 11/28:      9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Regular hours resume on Sunday, 11/29 (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 Midnight)

Law Library Passport Services will be closed Thursday 11/26 – Sunday 11/29 and resume regular hours on Monday 11/30.

The full list of Law Library hours is available at http://law.lib.buffalo.edu/about/hours-location.asp
Hours for other UB Libraries are available at http://library.buffalo.edu/hours/index.html

Friday, November 13th, 2009 marked the 35th anniversary of Karen Spencer’s tenure in the Charles B. Sears Law Library. Karen’s contributions to the Libraries and the Law School can be measured by a series of accomplishments in the Koren audiovisual department, in her role as instructor and reference librarian, as clinical instructor in the Asylum & Refugee Law Clinic, and in her service to both communities.

On Monday, November 16, 2009, Karen began a new journey as she joined the staff of the University Archives in Special Collections. Although this is a huge loss for the Law Library and the Law School, we celebrate Karen’s pursuit of her passion for Special Collections. Karen’s new responsibilities include: Arrangement and processing of university record collections, faculty papers, and manuscript collections; Updating and conversion of finding aids for University Archives legacy collections to EAD (Encoded Archival Description); Participating in the implementation of database access to archival and manuscript finding aids in the University Libraries.

Please join us in wishing Karen well on her new journey.

According to SSRN chair Michael C. Jensen, SSRN HAS RELEASED ITS FREE iPHONE APPLICATION: iSSRN

iSSRN provides instant access to the latest Social Science and Humanities papers from scholars around the world through the iPhone and iPod Touch. iSSRN is available as a free download from Apple’s iTunes store at: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.wo /wa/viewSoftware?id=334702612&mt=8

iSSRN allows SSRN’s iPhone and iPod Touch users to search over 250,000 papers in the SSRN eLibrary. Full text of the papers can be read directly on the iPhone.

Google is about to release a new Google search engine called Google Caffeine. Improvements to the search engine stem from a re-write of the Google web page indexing. Read more about it here: http://mashable.com/2009/08/14/google-caffeine-video/.

Jotwell: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots)