University of Baltimore Law Library Blog

Icon

News and links of interest to the law school community

All work and no play….

Blogging may be a little sparse here until the Blogger-in-Chief gets back from visiting family and friends in Germany.

Filed under: blog

Is Tenure Justified?

Here’s an interesting bit from the Wednesday, July 25, 2007 edition of eSkeptic: Is tenure justified?

Filed under: Teaching

Free information

Filed under: Cool links

Library space planning

The law school is in the very beginning phases of planning a new building and we librarians have begun thinking about how a new library should look  and what it should contain if a new building ever does gets built.  Betsy McKenzie has some advice to guide some of our thinking: Out of the Jungle: How much space do law students need at desks or carrels?

Filed under: Law School, Library

Old school legal research

Filed under: Library, Teaching

Learn the ins and outs of patent and trademark searching

The University of Baltimore Law Library is offering a FREE one-day seminar on patent and trademark searching on Tuesday, August 7. The UB Law Library recently became a Patent and Trademark Depository Library – only the second in the state! To celebrate, we are hosting a full day of training by USPTO representatives. Come and learn how to use the USPTO website to search patents and trademarks, and how to access the PubWEST database – the same search tool used by patent examiners.

 

Please RSVP to Joanne Dugan at jdugan@ubalt.edu, or 410-837-4373

Filed under: Intellectual Propery, Law School, Library

Bar Exam Advice: Best diet before a test

 From Lawsagna comes this bit of advice on the best diet before a test. This could be  handy for you folks taking the bar exam next week.

Filed under: advice, bar exam

Second Life and Legal Education

The folks at the Law School Innovation Blog interview Prof. Elizabeth Townsend-Gard and Rachel Goda. who talk about how they used Second Life to teach property. Very interesting stuff.


Filed under: Second Life, Uncategorized

Stress-busting ideas

This one is for all of y’all studying for the bar:

Slow Leadership: Stress-busting ideas: The one-minute check-in

Filed under: advice, bar exam

Bar Passage Standards

Law librarian blog Out of the Jungle points out an article that ought to interest the administration at our law school:  New Bar Passage Standards.

Filed under: Law School, bar exam

Law Library's del.icio.us Bookmarks