Hours for Thankgiving Weekend are as follows:

There will be no access to the After Hours Reading Room when the Library is closed from Wednesday evening to Sunday at 9 a.m. 

Extended Library and After Hours Reading Room Hours for Final Exams begin Friday, December 4 and are listed on the Intranet

Limited Access Policy

As usual, we are also instituting a more restrictive access policy for the exam study period.  From 11/30 – 12/18 we will not make any UC user access tickets available, and UC users will have to establish that they have specific need of Law Library materials (by showing us a course assignment or a letter from a professor) before they will be allowed in the Library. 
  
Conference Rooms

In anticipation of the conference rooms being even more heavily used this time of year—with a number of “first-timers” joining in—I wanted to remind everyone that conference room reservations are handled online by going to http://rooms.law.ucla.edu.  You will need to login with your LawNet credentials as follows:  LAWNET\username. If you need assistance with the login, please don’t hesitate to ask for help at the circulation desk.  I’d also like to remind you that your M70 key will get you into the rooms.  Remember that you can only make one reservation per day for a maximum of three hours and reservations can only be made the same day.  More information about the Conference Rooms is available on the web at: http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=2567

PLEASE NOTE:  You will not be able to delete your conference room reservations during the reading/examination period (beginning November 30).

1. UCLA Happenings: This website lists events across campus in a variety of formats and is also searchable. They offer a customizable list of RSS feeds for 10 different categories of events for 5 different time periods. They also have options for Google and Yahoo! Calendar live feed. UCLA Happenings is also on Twitter.
2. Campus Events Commission: CEC organizes numerous campus events (many of them free or very low cost), which are primarily geared towards students. They are responsible for the "Free Sneaks" (often followed by Q&As with someone involved in the film) and the free noontime concerts. You can subscribe to their weekly email newsletter, join them on Facebook or follow them on Twitter.
3. School of Theater, Film & Television: A great source for film screenings and student plays on campus, with many free events.. You can subscribe to email or RSS calendar updates. I highly recommend subscribing to their mailing list: http://www2.tft.ucla.edu/mailing_list/. You will receive periodic emails for free tickets to events both on and off campus for which there is normally a charge.

The mysterious ?????? band came to L.A. this weekend. Were you there? We were! Learn more after the jump.

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Nailed 'Em - Library Crime
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Protests

Does the growing popularity of electronic readers like Amazon's Kindle portend the demise of the paper book? You be the judge: check out Round 1 of this humorous ten-part series of video shorts produced by San Francisco's Green Apple Books, in which the store's video crew debate the pros and cons of paper books and Amazon's Kindle. Enjoy!

]]> http://libblog.law.ucla.edu/archives/2009/08/tubeday_tuesday.html http://libblog.law.ucla.edu/archives/2009/08/tubeday_tuesday.html TubeDay Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:00:00 -0800 Welcome! Here's an update with some important changes we implemented in the library for this year and some useful information:

• We have moved the ERes Course pages behind the Law School Intranet, which means you will now need to login with your LawNET or BOL username and password to get access to your course pages.  Please also note that the address has changed to http://eres.law.ucla.edu (although the old link still works).
• We have changed our beverage policy so that beverages are allowed only in sealable, reusable containers.  Beverages in disposable containers are strictly prohibited. This was done both to meet the demand for allowing usage of reusable containers other than the approved library mugs and to adopt a more environmentally friendly policy.
• We now have an online library tour available at http://www.law.ucla.edu/librarytour.
• We have created a Guide for First Year Law Students on LibGuides and even returning students might be interested in the section called:  Food/Fun Guide to UCLA & Westwood.
• We have a new look for our Tower Reading Room and Law & Popular Culture Video/DVD collection lists.

You can view the videos online, and you can either listen to the audios on your computers or download them to an iPod or other MP3 player. The audio case database includes cases from the casebooks of our own Dean Schill (Property), Professor Yeazell (Civil Procedure), and Professor Grady (Torts), among others.

Register today:

1. Go to http://www.audiocasefiles.com/register/.
2. Choose “a member” in step one and “school” in step two. Then select University of California at Los Angeles from the dropdown list, complete the form, and submit. You must use your law school email address.
3. You will receive a verification email. Click the link to complete registration.

Click here for the AudioCaseFiles flyer.