Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library

We have placed copies of a CD containing PDF versions of the Law Library Research Guide Series in your law school mailboxes.  (Note to 2Ls & 3Ls:  The CDs contain new and updated guides from the CDs you receive last year). These guides and CDs were prepared by Librarians in the Law Library especially for UCLA Law Students.  Students in past years have described the Guides as invaluable in assisting them with their summer research assignments. Accompanying the CD is a letter outlining LexisNexis and Westlaw policies for summer use.  The research guides and other important summer research information may also be found on the Library Website.

Posted by Donna Gulnac at 12:20 PM | Permalink

 I hope you will all join me in welcoming our newest staff member, Beatrice Lewin Dumin.  Beatrice began as our Circulation, Reserves & Stacks Manager on February 5, 2007.  Beatrice came to us with over 20 years of academic and corporate library experience which spans almost all departments of library support – business, academic public and technical services, both in the U.S. and overseas. Most recently, she managed the Royce Hall Reading Room, a consortium of seven departmental libraries and one Center collection in the Humanities Division. In fact, Beatrice was the Reading Room’s first manager and was hired to establish and develop this beautiful library and its services.  The room is located in the northwest corner of Royce Hall and has an access policy that restricts the room’s use to graduate, postdoctoral and faculty members in the consortium’s departments.

Beatrice was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Canada, Germany and eastern Washington State.  She attended universities in both California and Washington and the Free University of Berlin.  Beatrice received her B.A. from UCLA in 1984, with a double major in History and German (in which she is fluent). 

Beatrice loves cats and enjoys all of the arts, particularly experimental dance, poetry and film, as well as classical forms of music. When Beatrice retires, she plans to move to Kenya and open an orphanage!

We feel pleased and lucky to have recruited Beatrice to this important position in the library. I encourage you to stop by the Circulation Desk, where you will often find her, to say hello.

Posted by Donna Gulnac at 3:00 PM | Permalink

With summer fast approaching, you may want to check out some of the new titles added to the Library's recreational reading collection. Take a look at the display of Tower Reading Room (TRR) books in the bookcase outside the entrance to the Library.

Titles include Black Girl/White Girl by Joyce Carol Oates, The Family that Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery by D.T. Max, You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore, Children of Men by P.D. James, Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ava Gardner: "Love is Nothing" by Lee Server, Whitethorn Woods by Maeve Binchy, Heyday: A Novel by Kurt Andersen, A Long Way Home: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ismael Beah, and many more.

If you are interested in checking out any of the books in the display case, please inquire at Circulation. (Note: Only UCLA Law School students, faculty and staff may borrow these books.)

Posted by June Kim at 12:53 PM | Permalink