During the Christmas break, all the computers in our classroom have been replaced by modern, new, and much faster machines!!!
NEW COMPUTERS in the classroom!
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New study space on the 4th floor and new desks in the Humphrey room
Now, our students can enjoy an additional study space on the 4th floor next to the Peel street side of the building. To preserve the initial “look and feel” of the library space, we had the custom-made Law Library’s desks from the Humphrey room moved to the new study space at the 4th floor, while the Humphrey room got more study spots with the new desks similar in style to our historical furniture.
Welcome back!
Dear Law students, it is nice to see you back! Your library was busy during the study break, and we have two major additions that will make the Law Library even more comfortable place to study: new computers in the classroom and new/ remodelled study spaces at the 2nd and 4th floors.
Holiday Opening Hours
Nahum Gelber Law Library will be closed Saturday, Dec. 22 through Tuesday, Jan. 1.
Happy holidays!
No Previous Years Exams & Secure Exams Laptops at the Law Library
Apparently, there has been quite a bit of confusion about where the Law students can find the exams from previous years or get a laptop with the secure exam software. To save you some trouble and time, this is a short summary of what we have and what we do not have at the Library:
- The Faculty of Law exams are NOT available through the McGill Library’s E-Exams Catalogue
- The Law Library does NOT have any print copies of the exams from previous years. We used to have them in the olden days when the Law Library was still in the New Chancellor Day Hall
- The McGill Library, including the Law Library, does NOT lend the laptops where you can install the secure exams software. To get more information about the secure exams software for your laptops, Law students should contact the Student Affairs Office tel. 514-398-3544 info.law@mcgill.ca http://www.mcgill.ca/law-studies/undergrad-programs/
Good luck with your exams!
About food, table manners, and libraries
Seeing that a considerable amount of space was dedicated to the discussion of food matters in the last Quid Novi http://quid.mcgill.ca/, I would like to add my little share to this conversation.
NO food is allowed in the Law Library. By saying NO food in the Law Library, I do indeed mean NO food. You can bring water and other beverages in sealed containers, but we do not allow any kind of food in the Library because food smells, and leftovers can attract insects or rodents, and we would not like to have mice and cockroaches here. So, please, please, when you bake your lovely carrés or muffins using the recipe from the last Food for Thought section, find another place to eat them. On n’est pas permis de ‘grignoter’ quoi que ce soit à la bibliothèque 🙂
I enjoyed reading “The Law students guide to business lunch etiquette” by Mary Angela Rowe. Personally, I am convinced that it is about the time to remind to everybody about the table manners that have been almost destroyed by the invasion of fast-food, plastic-plate, hastily-eaten meals. To somebody who is interested in the topic I can suggest searching our Classic Catalogue – Advanced Search – Keywords in subject – table etiquette. The McGill Library has an interesting selection of books on this topic ranging from “The rituals of dinner: the origins, evolution, eccentricities, and meaning of table manners” to “Galateo; or, A treatise on politeness and delicacy of manners… With the whole art of carving; illustrated with a variety of cuts”.
More about scanning
Last year, Nahum Gelber Law Library got a new Spirit Book Scanner – a self-service machine that gives you a real time preview and saves your scanned documents directly to a USB key. The scanner is located in the copy room at the 2nd floor. To learn how to use, this device you can watch the video: http://youtu.be/NtFzvvZcaXY
Making Legal History : Approaches and Methodologies
This collection of essays discusses the fundamental questions and the issues of the methodology of legal history research. The authors explore the approaches, methods, and sources that form the basis of legal research and illuminate the complexities and the challenges of researching into the history of the law posed by visual, unwritten, non-legal , and traditional archival sources. You can find more information abou this books here.
Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Modern Venice
The author uses records of Inquisition witchcraft trials in Venice to explore how different classes of the Venetian society understood characteristics and boundaries of nature and the supernatural. This work describes the complex forces shaping early modern beliefs a through their manifestations and evidence in the witchcraft trials’ records. You can find more about this book here.
Medieval Legal Process : Physical, Spoken and Written Performance in the Middle Ages
In medieval legal transactions the use of the written word was just one mean of communication among many other, e.g. the spoken word and the ‘action’ of legal ritual. This work discusses fifteen cases, ranging from the early Middle Ages to the eighteenth century, and from England to Galician Rus’. It is is volume 22 of Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy (USML), the series edited by Professor Marco Mostert. You can find a detailed list of the series’ content at their website. USML series is a forum for publications on the history of all form of communications in the Middle Ages, non-verbal, oral, and written. You can find more about this book here.