Day 2 of National Library Week - Two Truths and a Lie

Today we are featuring Christine in our Two Truths and a Lie game.

1. I played the string bass in the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra.
2. I won a trophy for faceting a 35 caret aquamarine.
3. I spent a lot of time in the Ozarks.

Which do you think is the lie?  Post your answer in a comment.  Correct answers will be entered in a contest to win some fabulous vendor swag. 

National Library Week - Two Truths and a Lie

How well do you know your library staff?  Today we are playing Two Truths and a Lie.  Post your answer in the comments and those who guess the lie correctly will be entered in a contest to win some awesome vendor swag.

1. I’ve driven cross-country five times.
2. My favorite book is Moby Dick.
3. When I was 28 years old, I was mistaken for 14. 

Paula

 

 

National Library Week

We are celebrating National Library week here at the Supreme Court Library with a variety of events. 

To start the week off, we are going to have a representative from the Carson City Library here from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Room 107 to give out Carson City Library cards.  State workers are eligible to obtain cards regardless of where they live.  The library card not only lets you use the Carson City Library's great collection of downloadable ebooks and audiobooks, but also to use the CLAN databases are available from the Nevada State Library and Archives.  CLAN databases include Ancestry.com and Learning Express. Use your barcode and password to access the Law Library's free WiFi without having to request a guest login and password.

On Friday, April 13, Nevada Legal Services will be holding a self-help forms completion clinic for people who are filing without legal representation.  General instruction will be provided regarding the completion of self-help forms.  A Notary Public will be available.  Register by calling 775-284-3491 x214.  The clinic will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. in Room 107 of the Supreme Court Library, 201 S. Carson Street.  Please use the Stewart Street entrance to the Supreme Court. 

During the week we will have a crossword puzzle, 2 Truths and a Lie contests to see who knows the most about library staff, and of course, a variety of treats.

Picture of the Week

Not many libraries maintain print card catalogs, though the Law Library still has one for those folks who like the serendipity of thumbing through cards or don't want the hassle of logging onto a computer.  For those that prefer electronics, the library also has an online catalog through its membership in the Cooperative Libraries Automated Network.  There is even a mobile version of the online catalog so you can access the library's holdings from your phone or tablet.  

Picture of the Week

The Law Library has a collection of superseded Nevada code volumes that includes every edition of the Nevada Revised Statutes.

U.S. Reports on HeinOnline

Do you know the Law Library subscribes to HeinOnline?  Most people think of the Law Journal Library (PDFs of law review articles) when they think of HeinOnline, but wait, there's more.  

HeinOnline is Hein’s premiere online product with more than 70 million pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format.  HeinOnline bridges the gap in legal history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 1,600 law and law-related periodicals.  HeinOnline provides exact page images of the documents in PDF format just as they appear in the original print. This means that all charts, graphs, tables, pictures, hand written notes, photographs, and footnotes appear where they belong!   What makes HeinOnline unique aside from its image-based PDF content is its historical value and the availability of titles back to their inception.

Today we want to highlight the U.S. Supreme Court Library, which contains U.S. Reports from v. 1 (1754) to v. 551 (2007), U.S. Reports Preliminary Prints from v. 535 (2002) to v. 555 (2009) and slip opinions (2002-date). 

HeinOnline is available in the law library and is free to search.  Documents may be printed for $0.10 per page. 

Currency of Nevada Revised Statutes

The Nevada Legislature adjorned sine die on June 7, 2011 and all laws enacted by the legislature have been codified in the 2011 Reprint of the Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS), which was published in November, 2011 and updated (2012 R1) in January, 2012.  The Supreme Court Library has three copies of the 2011 NRS Reprint, all of which are current.  The online version on the legislature's website is current through the 2012 R1 supp., although it is unannotated.

LexisNexis and West also publish versions of the Nevada Revised Statutes -- Michie's Nevada Revised Statutes Annotated (NRSA) and West's Nevada Revised Statutes Annotated (West's NRSA) -- and both are in the Library's collection.  Unfortunately, as of the date of this posting, neither is current through the 2011 session.  Our LexisNexis and West representatives have informed us they expect to ship the 2011 cumulative supplements (pocket parts) in mid-April, 2012.

Westlaw's Nevada Statutes database (NV-ST-ANN for all the Classic Westlaw users among us) is current through the the 2009 75th Regular Session and the 2010 26th Special Session of the Nevada Legislature.  There should be red KeyCite flags for any section that has been amended by the 2011 session and links to the Nevada Legislative Service (NV-LEGIS) database which contains the 2011 session laws.