RES IPSA LOQUITUR

What’s New at the Law Library!

Returning students should notice several changes that have occurred in the Law Library over the summer.  However, in case you haven’t noticed, here are a few of the major changes:

• You can see! We changed from canned lights to fluorescent lights in many of the study areas throughout the Library.  For example, the study area immediately inside the glass doors on the first floor is much brighter than it used to be.  Check out the areas along the atrium on the second, third, and fourth floors.  You can see!  We are continuing to look for a solution to the lighting problems in the Reading Room.  New table lamps should appear sometime during the semester and perhaps more track lighting. 

 

• Electrical outlets.  I’m sure that many of you who like to plug-in your laptop have been frustrated with the lack of electrical outlets in convenient locations.  We have done several things to improve this situation.  First, we added floor outlets under many of the tables throughout the Library.  You no longer have to move the tables to stretch your electrical cords to a wall outlet.  In some places where we could not put a floor outlet we have tried to make it more convenient by adding power strips.  In the stacks you will find power strips attached to the bottom of the shelving near many tables.  We also attached power strips to the tables in the Reading Room that are along the large windows (they are attached on the window side of the tables). 

 

• Rare Book Room.  Hopefully you have noticed the new room on the first floor of the Library (near the restrooms).  This is the new Rare Book Room.  The Library lost its previous Rare Book Room in the renovation and needed a new space to house its collection. 

 

• Additional Seating.  We added a few new seating areas in the Library over the summer.  Check out the second floor of the Library - you will find new soft seating near the elevator and toward the back of the atrium.  There are also additional tables scattered throughout the stacks. 

 

• Shifting the first floor collection.  The addition of the Rare Book Room on the first floor has made it necessary for us to rearrange the collection on this floor.  Unfortunately, the room was not completed until near the beginning of the school year so we were unable to finish this project before classes started.  We will continue to work on it but will try to contain the noise as much as possible.

 

I’m sure there are other that I have forgotten!  Look around and see for yourself what is new at the Law Library.

Linda K Fariss, Associate Director

Volume 18,  No. 1,   August 2007
Text Box: New and Noteworthy: Interested in learning what new books were added to the law library over the summer?  The law library maintains a monthly list of new acquisitions, arranged by subject, on its website.  To view the lists, just click: http://www.law.indiana.edu/library/publications/acq_lis.shtml. Dick Vaughan, Acquisitions & Serials Librarian

New Format for Res Ipsa Loquitur

For the past several years the Library’s newsletter, Res Ipsa Loquitur, has been issued in print format on a monthly basis during the academic year.  Over the summer we decided to change the format and the frequency of publication.  Starting with this issue, the newsletter will be issued in electronic format and will be distributed on a quarterly basis - August, November, February, and May.  We will include short news items as well as lengthier articles on subjects that we think will interest you.  In addition, we will continue the “Suggestion Box” column, so keep those suggestions coming!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any feedback you would like to give on the new format is much appreciated.  You can contact me at fariss@indiana.edu or stop by my office (Room 105B in the reference office of the Library).

Linda K. Fariss, Associate Director

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