HEARSAY News from KU’s Wheat Law Library | Fall 2018
THIS ISSUE What’s NEW at Wheat Law Library
Collection spotlight: J.W. Head Collection
How to do a royalty-free image search
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DIRECTOR’S CORNER It is a great time to be a Jayhawk. That popular sentiment has long been a great reminder of the amazing opportunities and experiences to be found at the University of Kansas. However, it is a particularly exciting time to be at KU Law. The law school continues to garner impressive accolades ranging from faculty scholarship rankings to moot court successes, and the Wheat Law Library has some exciting recent happenings as well.
issue of Hearsay. Likewise, Assistant Director Blake Wilson provides a detailed look at a recent research project conducted in support of KU Law faculty, along with important information regarding some of the new artificial intelligence features that are quickly revolutionizing many legal research platforms. Technical Services Manager Ellen Olker provides poetic insight regarding a recent addition to the historical collection, while Library Assistant Melissa Doebele recounts the evolution of an existing special collection that we recently spruced up. Not to be outdone, Circulation & Serials Departments Manager Jeff Montgomery reminds us all that he knows more KU Law students and alumni by name than just about anyone, and why that personal touch continues to be an important calling card over the years.
The addition of new study furniture The law school continues to is perhaps the most visible recent Our wonderful new student development. Two bike desks, six workers are also briefly profiled in garner impressive accolades standing desks and four standing this issue. As many of you already tables provide new options for students know, this diverse group of ranging from faculty scholarship seeking a comfortable setting for students not only provides rankings to moot court successes, numerous hours of reading and excellent service, they are writing. We would like to thank the extremely talented and fun to and the Wheat Law Library has generous donor who made the purchase work with as well. In sum, of these items possible, Mrs. Marie Robb there are a lot of great things some exciting recent happenings (Winterburg). Any opportunity to happening in the Wheat Law as well. improve the physical plant is cause for Library these days. Some celebration, and we are grateful for contributions are more visible Marie’s kind contribution. Marie than others, but they are all done served as KU Law’s Westlaw account in service of the library’s mission representative for many years and could often be found in Green to support the legal information needs of KU Law, the legal Hall working with and supporting our students and faculty, so community and our public patrons. We hope that you will join us these fantastic new library features fittingly honor that valuable in the law library this year, whether to explore our new additions tradition. or utilize longstanding resources and services. Rock Chalk! Assistant Director Pam Crawford details the new study furniture, and many other positive new developments, in this
Christopher L. Steadham, JD, MLIM Wheat Law Library Director
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What’s NEW at Wheat Law Library Pam Crawford Assistant Director for Public and Technical Services Let’s start with the NEW school year. Each fall, after a relatively peaceful existence during the summer sessions, we in the library gear up for a new beginning. The library Lawyering class exercises are updated, library hours return to normal and we prepare for the students to swarm the building. Speaking of students, a NEW group of 1Ls joined us this fall as they do every year. It’s nice to see the 2L and 3L students coming back, too, but there’s something special about new 1Ls. They are bright, shiny, excited and energetic. They are anxious to claim a carrel and begin reading their assigned pages. We love this positivity; sometimes it even rubs off a little on the 2Ls and 3Ls … and us! OK, you know and we know it won’t last long as the day-to-day workload takes its toll. But right now they are making new friends, finding their way, happy to be here, and we’re enjoying it. We have six NEW student assistants working at the circulation and reference desks and one working in technical services; you can actually “meet” the new ones on pages four and eight of this issue. These six, along with several students who started last year, make up a great group of hard workers. We couldn’t keep the library open seven days a week without them!
Meredith Wiggins and Leah Terranova from KU Law’s Career Services Office take a spin on the new FitDesks on the third floor of the Wheat Law Library.
We have added two NEW study rooms this year in 416 and 418. These rooms were formerly used as offices for Overseas Visiting Scholars but are now nice, quiet, brightly-lit spaces for student study. Finally, last but definitely not least, we were able to provide some NEW study furniture this year. Students have been listing height-adjustable study furniture as a “want” on recent library surveys. Thanks to a generous donor, we have added six sit-stand desks, four height-adjustable tables and even two bikedesks! The new furniture has been well received by the students; even some of the staff and faculty have given the bikedesks a try!
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Circulation desk welcomes six new student employees
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Lindsie Ford is a 3L from Shawnee. She earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Oklahoma State University. She enjoys spending time with her family and friends.
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Traci Hagedorn is a 3L from Topeka who now lives in Saratoga, California. She completed her undergraduate degree in criminal justice at California State University, Sacramento. She enjoys watching baseball, traveling and playing with her cat, Molly.
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Soohun Jang is a 2L from Seoul, South Korea. He received an undergraduate degree in economics from Seoul National University. He passed the District of Columbia bar exam in 2016. He enjoys traveling and playing sports.
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Rakiba Nabi is a second-year SJD student. She completed her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Chittagong Bangladesh. In 2004, she became a lecturer at the University of Chittagong Bangladesh. In 2012-13 session, she pursued second LL.M (Human Rights) from the University of Hong Kong. Currently, her dissertation work focuses on “Examining the United States and Other Contexts of Indigenous Land Claims to Remedy Existing Prolonged CHT Land Dispute Crisis.”
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Tabinda Naseer is a 3L from Overland Park. She completed her undergraduate degree in human biology from KU. She enjoys cooking and traveling. Zach Palomino is a 2L from Tucson, Arizona. He plans to practice criminal law after he completes law school and passes the bar.
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Name that law student Jeff Montgomery Circulation/Serials Departments Manager
Class of 1995
During the first week of September, I met with the 2018 summer starters for their first lab session of the Lawyering class. One of the students asked me how I already knew all their names. I told her that I had been memorizing their names all summer. A lot of our graduates are also surprised that I remember their names when they come back to interview our students, or to teach. There is a reason.
theirs. So I study. Each summer and fall I receive photos of the entering classes taken during their orientation sessions. I have photos of all the classes going back to the 1990s. I even have copies of the most recent classes at home where I can consult them, which I frequently do. The students seem to like being called by name, which seems natural to me.
I believe that knowing someone’s name is a sign of respect. If they know my name, I should learn
So the next time you are in Green Hall, I may greet you by name.
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UPCOMING EVENTS Barber Emerson Bluebook Relays October 26, 2018 KU vs. Iowa State Tailgate Party November 3, 2018 Journal of Law & Public Policy Symposium March 1, 2019
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Royalty-free image search Blake Wilson Assistant Director for Instructional & Faculty Services
The Task As a faculty law librarian who specializes in research, I have seen virtually every type of request come across my desk. While I am always happy to help with a 50-state survey or provide case analytics, nothing adds pep to my step like a request that takes me out of the norm. One such request recently appeared. I was asked to locate some images that could be used in an academic publication, royalty-free. I was thrilled to take on that task being that it was something I had never done before and nothing pleases me more than to learn.
The Search Now that I knew what I was looking for, I had to figure out the best way to dive in. I’m not ashamed to admit that — just like most of us out there — I tend to start some projects with one of the more ubiquitous search engines.
The first step was to figure out exactly what I was looking for. Having studied intellectual property in law school with a focus on trademark and copyright in the digital domain, I know that I would want to locate images that were either in the public domain or those that had a free license I would not have to pay for.
1. Fill out the top boxes with the keywords. 2. At the very bottom, in the box labeled “usage rights,” select the type of license you would like to use. 3. Click Advanced Search.
Public Domain Images that are located in the public domain are simply those to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. These pieces may have had the copyright expire, forfeited, expressly waived or may simply be inapplicable. License Through a modest amount of research, I discovered that the type of license that would satisfy my requirement (i.e. free) is called a Creative Commons (CC) license. A CC license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work. This type of license is used when an author wants to give people the right to share, use and build upon a work that they have created. Being a license, there may be some restrictions as to usage of the material. 6
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Google A simple search on Google Images (https://images. google.com/) is guaranteed to lead to questionable results. For something as specific as an image that is royalty-free, advanced searching is the way to go. As luck would have it, Google’s advanced search function can help find images that are located in the public domain. Go to Advanced Image Search (google.com/advanced_image_search)
The limitation with Google, though, is that it cannot get around password protection or areas that require some type of response by the user. However, this is a good way to start. Government sites Under U.S. copyright law, works created by the U.S. federal government cannot be copyrighted. Therefore, any images produced are in the public domain and may be used for commercial purposes unless a recognizable person is included. This makes government image archives a great place to locate materials. A couple of examples would be NASA’s (https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/ index.html) and NOAA’s (http://www.photolib.noaa. gov/) photo galleries. The Library of Congress is also a great resource. However, being that they are collectors and not producers, you must proceed with caution (https://www.loc.gov/free-to-use/). Image Sharing Sites
The nature of the Creative Commons license naturally leads to the formation of sites where people can exchange materials. Pexels (https://www.pexels. com/), Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/en/) and Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia. org/) are all great resources for finding images that are in the public domain or licensed under Creative Commons. However, you may need to pay special attention to the attribution requirements. As a rule, I tend to always attribute an image, even if it is not required. The public domain pool on Flickr (https://www.flickr. com/groups/publicdomain/pool/) is another great place to look for images. My recommendation, though, is to search it through the Creative Commons website (https://search.creativecommons.org/) since it will pick up all of the images on Flickr that are tagged “public domain” or “Creative Commons,” not just the ones that have been added to the public domain pool. With Flickr, the users are allowed to reserve some rights, so you will want to check and see which rights the user has retained. Shutterstock (https://www.shutterstock.com/) and Adobe Stock (https://stock.adobe.com/images) are two other sources that one may wish to consider when all other options have failed. With both of these, you must purchase the license to use the material, but they are very reasonable — in the realm of $1 each. Most of the people I know who generate material used for commercial purposes rely heavily on stock photography. Conclusion Regardless of search terms, there will be a lot of scrolling through pictures to find the right one. I tend to find anything that looks close, save it and then note the photographer’s name, the title of the picture, the date of the picture, the URL and the type of license.
Westlaw Edge Starting on November 1, KU Law will have access to Thomson Reuters’ newest product, Westlaw Edge. Westlaw Edge uses state-of-theart artificial intelligence to deliver more accurate results, faster. Westlaw Edge also includes: Litigation Analytics: Data analytics is hot, and Westlaw is delivering them to you. Easily analyze judeges, courts, attorney, law firms and case types. What makes Westlaw’s analytics different is the integration with other important caselaw information and the KeyCite system. WestSearch Plus: Westlaw Edge’s AI gives you better and faster results with regards to the predictive research suggestions. The AI runs in the background of your search and roots out the most likely suggestions and relevant information. KeyCite Overruling Risk: It used to be that you would need to look at the cases your case cited and make sure those cases were still good law before you could rest easy. Westlaw Edge has now made this process easier. KeyCite Overruling Risk adds an orange icon to cases where cited cases have been called into question. Statutes Compare: When statutes change, it can be time-consuming to compare the new and old versions. Statutes Compare allows you to see the changes made to a law within the statute you are viewing. There’s no need to go hunting for the previous version. Needless to say, we are very excited for this upgrade. This is a major step forward in the use of AI in legal research. Keep your eyes open for trainings over the next couple of months. Wheat Law Library | Hearsay
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Collection spotlight: J.W. Head Collection Melissa Doebele Library Assistant
Just like “There Will Be Blood,” “Head Collection” sounds like it should be the title of a horror movie, but it isn’t. The Wheat Law Library’s Head Collection is a group of books shelved on the fourth floor outside Room 415. This collection was donated by Professor John Head in the spring of 2010. The set began with just fewer than 200 volumes of international and comparative law materials and has grown steadily over the past few years. Recently, library staff noticed that the area housing the Head Collection could use a bit of a facelift. Professor Head suggested dividing the materials into four categories: Comparative Law, International Business Law, Public International Law and Miscellaneous. The library’s student assistant in technical services, Annie Brazil, brought the books downstairs in small groups and Library Director Chris Steadham designated the appropriate category for each book. Brazil also assembled a bibliography of the collection with the items listed alphabetically by title in each of the four categories. New signage was made, and the items were put back on the shelves organized into their new categories. Although students and library staff know it simply as the “Head Collection,” a new sign was made for the set as a whole designating it as The J.W. Head International and Comparative Law Collection. The library would like to thank Annie Brazil, technical services student assistant, for her work on reorganizing the collection. We are also very grateful to Professor John Head, whose generous donation made these books available for student and faculty use. Please stop by the fourth floor of the Wheat Law Library to peruse the Head Collection and its bibliography. 8
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Library welcomes new technical services student assistant
Annie Brazil is a sophomore at the University of Kansas studying strategic communications in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Brazil plans to graduate from KU in 2021. She is from Chanute, Kansas.
Find poetry in law Ellen Olker Technical Services Manager
Walking through the stacks of the law library, I do not often feel poetic. However, I recently spent quite a lot of time leafing through verses from a niche genre I had never considered before — legal poetry. It has proven that no subject is too tedious to be poetic. This past spring, the library was fortunate to receive a donation from Professor Michael Hoeflich of over 70 volumes of 19th-century legal poetry. Hoeflich has researched and published on this topic. The collection challenges the popular image of a lawyer as unimaginative and uninspired. Instead, it reminds us that, historically, many lawyers enjoyed an educated and cultured life full of literature, philosophy and art that would have connected them to more creative spheres in society. While not all of the poetry would be considered good by today’s standards, the collection exemplifies the various motivations that lawyers had for writing poetry in the 19th century. Similar to themes in John Quincy Adams’s “Poems of Religion and Society,” some lawyer-poets examined moral and religious struggles around them. Others were motivated by politics, profit, sentiment or amusement. Perhaps most interestingly, many simply took pleasure in writing and found poetry to be a worthwhile endeavor. Someone could assume that the workload of a modern lawyer makes it impossible to indulge in
poetry. We have to look no further than our very own Green Hall to prove them wrong. In his book, “Beware the Commerciality Doctrine and Other Nonprofit Law Poetry,” Professor Bruce Hopkins takes a humorous approach in exploring the realities of working in nonprofit law. If you are curious about his wit or skill, the law library has a copy on display in the faculty publications case by the circulation desk. The new collection of legal poetry has been processed with the help of Annie Brazil, the new technical services student assistant, and is housed in Room 200F as part of the Legal History Collection. This growing collection is where the library houses
special items such as rare books and archival material related to the history of law and the KU law school. Hoeflich has made several generous donations of rare books to the collection in the past. If you would like to access an item in the Legal History Collection or have questions about using it for your own research, please contact one of the law librarians or inquire at the front desk. Wheat Law Library | Hearsay
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Library staff directory OUR MISSION
Christopher L. Steadham Director csteadham@ku.edu 785-864-9242
Pam Crawford Assistant Director, Public & Technical Services pcraw4d@ku.edu 785-864-9264
Melissa Doebele Library Assistant mdoebele@ku.edu 785-864-3360
Jeff Montgomery Circulation & Serials Department Manager jmontgom@ku.edu 785-864-9252
As the largest and oldest law library in Kansas, the Wheat Law Library is an integral part of the School of Law. It serves the law school and university community in legal and interdisciplinary scholarly pursuits and provides attorneys, judges and the general public with access to legal information. Key components of this mission include collecting and preserving Kansas, national and international legal documents, teaching legal information literacy and serving as a legal information gateway by providing access to sources beyond the scope of the physical collection.
LIBRARY HOURS August 22 - December 2, 2018 Mon - Thur 7:30 am - 11 pm Friday 7:30 am - 5 pm Saturday 9 am - 5 pm Sunday 10 am - 11 pm
Ellen Olker Technical Services Manager eolker@ku.edu 785-864-3168
W. Blake Wilson Assistant Director Instructional & Research Services wilsonwb@ku.edu 785-864-9253
EXAM HOURS December 3 - 13, 2018 Mon - Thur 7:30 am - 1 am Friday 7:30 am - 10 pm Saturday 9 am - 10 pm Sunday 10 am - 1 am Friday, December 14, 2018 7:30 am - 5 pm Wheat Law Library | Hearsay
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