Jenkins Blog

April 18, 2024

Understanding the Courts: NCSC Video Series

Last week, the National Center for State Courts ( ncsc.org ) launched a set of short, easy-to-understand videos to help explain the court system as well as legal terms and processes to members of the public. With the goal of helping Self-Represented Litigants better prepare for court hearings and...

Landlord Tenant

April 12, 2024

Real Estate & Landlord Tenant Law

Looking for secondary sources on real estate or landlord tenant law in Pennsylvania? You may want to consult our Pennsylvania Real Estate & Landlord Tenant Law research guide. This guide compiles both digital and print resources from our collection to help attorneys conduct research quickly and...

Jenkins Law Library

April 10, 2024

Join Us For National Library Week!

On Wednesday, April 10, there'll be free breakfast and lunchtime fare at Jenkins. (Spoiler alert: it's more than just crackers and cheese.) And there'll be some Jenkins swag, as well, for those of you who successfully complete our Digital Escape Room Challenge: The Founders Folly . And one more...

HeinOnline

April 3, 2024

HeinOnline’s West Academic Casebooks Archive

West Academic and HeinOnline teamed together to create the West Academic Casebooks Archive . Available via HeinOnline , this database includes not only casebooks, but hornbooks, nutshells, and other miscellaneous West books that are out-of-print and superseded. Only editions prior to the two most...

Legal Research

March 25, 2024

Law Librarians: Indispensable Digital Stewards of Legal Information

Recently I read this blog post about digital law librarianship. It has a great closing paragraph: "In a world where the legal landscape is rapidly digitizing, law librarians have not become obsolete; instead, they have evolved into indispensable digital stewards of legal information. They continue...

March 21, 2024

Voices of Women in Law: Four Collections of Essays to Read in Celebration of Women’s History Month

The National Women's History Alliance has designated the 2024 Women's History Month theme as "Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion”, recognizing women who work to “ eliminate bias and discrimination entirely from our lives and institutions” and who...

LexisNexis Digital Library

March 14, 2024

Accessing eBooks in the LexisNexis Digital Library

LexisNexis Digital Library , powered by OverDrive, provides access to nearly 300 ebooks which represent more than 2,900 volumes of Matthew Bender treatises, forms, and federal and state law. M embers* can borrow up to five volumes with loan times of seven days each. T o start reading an ebook,...

CLE

March 7, 2024

CLE Opportunity: GPLLA 2024 Institute: Keeping it Local

Although federal law often gets the headlines, state and local law have an enormous impact on our rights and everyday life. Join the Greater Philadelphia Law Library Association (GPLLA) on March 20 to hear a fantastic array of experts in state and local law discuss those laws' importance, their...

Federal Register

February 26, 2024

USPTO's Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions

On February 13th, 2024, the Patent and Trademark Office published a notice on Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions in vol. 89 no. 30 of the Federal Register (89 FR 10043). This notice follows the "Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial...

State Statutes

February 23, 2024

Finding Fifty-State Surveys in Jenkins’ Collection

If you’ve been tasked with compiling and comparing laws across states, Jenkins provides access to various fifty-state surveys that may help save you time. Such surveys can be invaluable tools for gaining a comprehensive overview of laws and regulations across the nation, allowing users to spot...

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