Please
join the ABA Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress at the
Renaissance Dallas for a FREE CLE program on how to conduct legal
research online. Librarians, lawyers, students, and researchers are encouraged to attend.
How to Conduct FREE Legal Research Online
Friday, February 8, 2013 ▪ 9:00am to 11:00am
Renaissance Dallas ▪ Lone Star 3, 4th Floor
This
free program will focus on the legal research services and resources
available from the Law Library of Congress, as well as several other
free online collections.
Following a general overview of the Law Library and its services
available to lawyers, librarians, and researchers around the world,
there will be an explanation of the organization and content of Congress.gov
and THOMAS, the Library of Congress's federal
legislative information sites, which together contain the full texts of
House and Senate bills and resolutions, the Congressional Record, and
much more, starting with the 101st Congress (1989‐90).
Special emphasis will be given to Congress.gov, which was launched by
the Library of Congress in September 2012, and is in an initial beta
phase, with plans to transform the Library of Congress's existing
congressional information system into a modern, durable,
and user‐friendly resource. Eventually, it will incorporate all of the information available on THOMAS.
Learn
about the Law Library's global research services, its vast collections
in 195 languages from over 220 jurisdictions worldwide, and its expert
staff equipped to answer
your legal research questions.
The
program will also highlight other free, yet trustworthy, online legal
collections and search engines, such as the U.S. Government Printing
Office's Federal Digital
System (FDsys), Cornell University Law School's Legal Information
Institute, the University of California, Santa Barbara's American
Presidency Project, HG.org, FindLaw, Justia, LexisWeb, Google Scholar, and a number of others products.
Learning Outcomes:
1.
Familiarity with the specialized services, websites, collections and
expert legal research staff available from the Law Library of Congress
free to all including solos,
practicing lawyers, librarians, researchers and those new to the
profession;
2. Understanding of the organization, structure, content, and search strategies to perform time‐saving legal research in Congress.gov and THOMAS and other free legal databases from your own computer wherever you are in the world; and
3.
Interactive research demonstrations and explanations of websites and
other research products produced and maintained
by the Law Library of Congress as well as other authoritative Web‐based collections and useful search engines.
by the Law Library of Congress as well as other authoritative Web‐based collections and useful search engines.
Please feel free to pass this invitation along to your colleagues, students, etc.
For more information and to RSVP, please contact Jinny Choi at 202-662-1694 or jinny.choi@americanbar.org
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