As promised, I am posting the dates of the database presentations. All students are welcome.
Azimut
Wednesday October 10th
12:30 – 2:00
Westlaw Canada
Wednesday October 17th
12:30 – 2:00
QuickLaw
Monday October 22th
13:30 – 2:30
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
If you would like to know more about our facilities and services, we will be glad to offer you a tour of the Nahum Gelber Law Library. Half-an-hour tours are given to the groups of students (minimum of three) during our opening hours. You can send a request for a tour to the law.library@mcgill.ca Please do not forget to indicate the number of participants and your preferred time.
I would like to remind you that you need your McGill ID card to access the Law Library during study hours when our services are closed, i.e. after 6:00 p.m. You can find more information about our hours here.
It happened again… You lost your AZIMUT password, and you need to find some Quebec cases 🙁
The only way to recover your AZIMUT username and password is to write an e-mail to our staff member who is a designated contact person for SOQUIJ, Ramon Lasso ramon.lasso@mcgill.ca, asking him to recover your login credentials. Do not forget to include your McGill ID number and your full name in the e-mail.
Law Library will be open on Sunday, September the 2nd, noon to 8 p.m. On Monday, September the 3rd, Labour Day, the Law Library is closed. You can find more information about our hours here.
We are happy to announce that this year, we will be able to offer again 24 hours access to the Law Library, Monday to Thursday, starting September the 4th. You can find more information about our hours here.
Remember! Monday, September the 3rd is the Labour Day and the Law Library is closed.
Once again, I am reminding you that scanning is FREE for McGill students if you are using either one of big multifunctional Xerox machines or an over-head scanner at the second floor.
A call number is a group of numbers and letters put together to tell you where you can find your book, DVD, map, or (sometimes) journal in the library. A call number is located at the bottom of the book spine. To find a call number for a book, you have to look it up in our online catalogue. Call numbers serve two purposes: first, they provide a unique location “address”, for every item within the library; second, they group items by subject, so that when you browse the shelves, you will find books on the same subject next to each other.
Call numbers are assigned not randomly but according to a classification system. In the Law Library, we have books in Library of Congress (LC) (at the 1 – 5 floors) or Cutter (in the basement) classification systems. It can be difficult to understand LC call numbers if you are not used to them, so you may wish to take a look at this small video that could help you to read a LC call number.
You may have noticed that in the Law Library, the majority of books have a call number that starts with K. This is due to the fact that letter K is assigned to “law” as a subject in the LC classification system. Any letters and numbers that you see after K denote a specific sub-subject, e.g. KE 470- 474 groups books on Law of Canada – Conflict of laws. You can consult this Tip-Sheet to see the break-down of the class K by topic.
This Summer, Law Library will be open 09:00 – 18:00 Monday – Friday from May, 1 till August, 24 2012. Please remember, that only the users who have “after hours access” will be able to stay at the library after 18:00. You can always check our opening hours at the Law Librarie’s webpage.