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New Library Hours Website

The University Libraries has a new website that enables users to view in real time which campus libraries are open and what their hours are for that day.

You Are What You Search

There is an interesting article on the National Archive's Blog about how search engines filter out the results that do not fit your profile. As a result, your search may not reveal links to sites that don't match your interests or politics. It is hard to learn if you never escape your comfort zone. Read the Blog entry.

Chechnya Resources

To help researchers find available information, UNC librarian Kirill Tolpygo has created an online guide to UNC library resources related to Chechnya.

BNA Publications Migrating from Westlaw and LexisNexis

BNA publications will be accessible only via Bloomberg/BNA databases beginning December 31, 2013. However, Westlaw and LexisNexis may begin removing BNA products from their databases as early as July 1, 2013.

Duces Techum: The Bluebook App

Duces Techum is a weekly Blawg feature that provides tips for using mobile apps, tablets, smart phones, e-readers and other tech products to meet your legal research needs.

Today's Tip - Accessing The Bluebook on the go

Digitizing the North Carolina Supreme Court Briefs

The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina is in the midst of a digitization project of its collection of North Carolina Supreme Court Briefs. More than 2,400 volumes will be made freely available on the Internet. The library will be making the PDF files available on its website with a custom search index. Original TIFF files will be archived. W.S. Hein & Co. is scanning the volumes for this project. The library will be using BitCurator, a forensic tool created by the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, to locate and remove sensitive personal information such as social security numbers. Because many steps in this process are a first-time experiment, the completion date is unknown. However, the library will begin posting the briefs in searchable form by the end of the 2013-14 school year.

Duces Techum: Sticky Notes

Duces Techum is a weekly Blawg feature that provides tips for using mobile apps, tablets, smart phones, e-readers and other tech products to meet your legal research needs.

Today's Tip - Posting reminders on Sticky Notes

Duces Techum: iSSRN

Duces Techum is a weekly Blawg feature that provides tips for using mobile apps, tablets, smart phones, e-readers and other tech products to meet your legal research needs.

Today's Tip - Finding scholarly research on iSSRN

Remembering the UNC Speaker Ban

Next Thursday, April 11, the Wilson Special Collections Library will mark the 50th anniversary of the Speaker Ban Law with an address from a former UNC student body president Robert Spearman.

Wilson Library's North Carolina Collection Gallery is currently exhibiting A Right to Speak and to Hear: Academic Freedom and Free Expression at UNC.

Westlaw Printer Update

Effective June 2013, Westlaw will no longer provide printer service to law schools. Westlaw has cited two primary factors in their decision to discontinue the law school printer program: 1) a significant decrease in the use of printers after the release of WestlawNext and 2) the substantial environmental impact of the program.