The NC Office of Archives and History (OAH) and State Library of North Carolina are housed within the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, which is the department charged with “building the social, cultural, educational, and economic future” of the state. The OAH and State Library preserve many archival materials and government records that …
New Capital Punishment Resources in the Law Library
The UNC Law Library has several books and resources on the death penalty. You can explore the subject in a new collection on HeinOnline or through print books housed in the Law Library stacks. HeinOnline now features the History of Capital Punishment online collection. This resource includes the Eugene G. Wanger and Marilyn M. Wanger …
New Hurricane Florence Resource Guide Now Available
The UNC Law Library has created a new Hurricane Florence Resource Guide. This guide includes a collection of online resources intended to help the North Carolina community seek information on disaster relief efforts for those impacted by Hurricane Florence. There are many unreliable resources on the Internet, and an effort was made to include only …
CRS Reports Now Publicly Available from Library of Congress
On September 17, 2018, the Library of Congress announced the launch of a new website, sending librarians, open-government activists, and countless others into paroxysms of frenzied excitement. Why, you might ask? Let one of those librarians explain. About the Congressional Research Service For more than one hundred years, an office within the Library of Congress …
How to Find New Books in the Law Library
The Law Library receives many more new books than just those that appear on the new books shelf near the circulation desk. Here’s how to find a list of those books: Go to the Law Library website at https://library.law.unc.edu. Click on “New Books” underneath the search box. On the next page, select the time period …
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Students: Have you ever finished reading an assigned case and realized you didn’t understand the legal issue involved or the holding? Don’t worry; we’ve all been there. Part of legal education is learning how to understand the central issue or issues in a dispute and extrapolate a rule from the court’s discussion of the case. …
West Study Aids Digital Collection for Academic Success
Want to improve your understanding of legal concepts? Expand upon the readings assigned in class? Quiz your progress on an area of law? You can do these tasks and more with the West Study Aids Digital Collection. The law library provides access to more than 500 online study aids to Carolina Law students and faculty …
Three Laura N. Gasaway Graduate Assistants Join the Law Library
The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library would like to welcome three new Laura N. Gasaway Graduate Assistants! Sara Farnsworth, Jasmine Plott, and Emily Roscoe have recently begun their graduate assistantships and will be experiencing many different aspects of law librarianship throughout the next year. Sara Farnsworth Sara Farnsworth began working in libraries as an undergraduate …
Supreme Court Nominations: Background Reading for Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s Nomination
Interested in learning more about Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court seat vacated by retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy? The following resources are a great place to start: Georgetown Law Library’s Supreme Court Nominations Research Guide : This resource provides an explanation of the nomination and confirmation process, along with individualized …
Digital Access to News & Observer Newspapers through NewsBank
The University Libraries subscription to NewsBank now includes full digitization of three North Carolina newspapers: Raleigh News & Observer Historical Archive Charlotte Observer Historical Archive Greensboro News & Record Historical Archive Each of these digital archives includes full content of the paper versions going back to 1879 for Raleigh, 1892 for Charlotte, and 1909 for …