TMLL Library News

Thurgood Marshall Law Library now offers Mango Languages for free, easy and fun foreign language learning.

Thurgood Marshall Law Library has added Mango Languages to its growing list of databases. Mango is free of charge to all Francis King Carey Law School students, faculty and staff and is the easiest and most effective way to learn to speak a foreign language. Mango is available in two versions:

Mango Basic: Perfect for a foreign language beginner, Mango Basic teaches every day greetings, gratitudes, goodbyes and helpful phrases in a short period of time. The courses require only two to five hours of time to complete.

Mango Complete: Mango Complete offers a 100-lesson course that digs much deeper and is designed to provide a more complete understanding of the entire language and culture. Foreign language courses include Chinese, French, German and Spanish. ESL courses include Spanish and Chinese.

 

To learn more about Mango and get a short preview of what the program has to offer, you can visit the company's website at www.mangolanguages.com. Even better, you can visit the library’s databases page and get started on the courses themselves!

New Maryland Family Law Material

Fader's Maryland family law, 5^th edition by Cynthia Callahan; Thomas C Ries is now available in the Library’s Reading Room.

Or you can read the Full Text of Maryland State and County Administrative Law, 2012 by Diane Leasure and John Fader in the School of Law's Digital Commons. http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/books/41/

Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day

The library will be closed on Monday, January 16th for Martin Luther King Jr. day.

 

Want to know more about Martin Luther King, Jr.? The library has several books you might want to check out!

 

 

A testament of hope : the essential writings and speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Martin Luther King, Jr.; James Melvin Washington

 

Judgment days : Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the laws that changed America

by Nick Kotz

 

 

The making of Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement

by Brian Ward; Anthony J Badger;

 

 

The papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Martin Luther King, Jr.; Clayborne Carson; Peter Holloran; Ralph Luker; Penny A Russell

Library Hours Over Break

The Thurgood Marshall Law Library will be closed from Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011 through Monday, January 2, 2012.  The library will open again at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, January 3. 

Also, please note that building restrictions are in place at noon on Friday, Dec. 23 - the library will be open only to students, faculty and staff from the law school and other University of Maryland institutions after that time.

For complete information on library hours, check our Hours Calendar on the library web site.

ILLiad up and running

The issues with ILLiad are fix, and it is now up and running.  Thanks!

Issues with ILLiad

The library is still working on restoring access to ILLiad.  If there are ILL requests or questions please contact the ILL unit twhite(at)law(dot)umaryland(dot)edu  or  ill(at)law(dot)umaryland(dot)edu 

 

Thanks!

One Card Services Disrupted, 11/23/2011

UPDATE: This Wednesday, November 23rd the One-Card machine will be having updates from 5pm-9pm (tentatively).  Go Print may be disrupted, so please plan accordingly!!

Library Adds The Interrupters to Media Collection

Alex Kotlowitz, author of the national best seller, There Are No Children Here, about two young African American boys struggling to survive among crime and negligent in a Chicago public housing complex, is back with another gripping story.  This time it is as co-producer, along with Steve James (director of Hoop Dreams), of a documentary film entitled The Interrupters which takes a look at the epidemic of violence in Chicago and the individual and collective efforts of three “violence interrupters”.  These three, a woman and two men, are part of small group called CeaseFire founded by an epidemiologist who see the spread of violence within communities as analogous to the spread of infectious disease.  The interrupters are people now trying to protect their communities from the violence they once employed in their earlier lives and their backgrounds give them street cred.  Filmed over the course of the year the film follows the three as they intervene in interpersonal conflicts before they erupt into violence.  The result is both inspiring and tragic.

 

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Welcome Stephanie Bowe

The Thurgood Marshall Law Library is pleased to introduce Stephanie Bowe, our new Resource Acquisitions and Metadata Services Librarian. 

Stephanie has taken over the assessment, licensing, and procurement of library collections, represents the library within the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions and other consortia on issues related to resource acquisitions and library systems, and coordinates metadata policy and procedures.

Previously, Stephanie worked at the United States Supreme Court Library in technical services for four years while concurrently working as a Librarian on Sundays at the Alexandria Beatley Central Library and completing her MLS from The Catholic University of America in DC.

She can be reached at (410) 706-0783 or at sbowe[at]law.umaryland.edu

New student scanner

There is a new scanner for student use on the 2d (main) floor of the Library.  It is attached to one of the student computers (PC: UMSOL-LIB2D) near the printers and the User Services Desk.  Log in using your UMB ID and password.

Instructions for using the scanner are posted above the scanner.