Library News

Patricia Hart and Tanya Cao attended the Southern California Association of Law Libraries (SCALL) Institute on March 14-15, 2008. The two-day institute was held in Ventura for firm, academic, and government law librarians. The overall topic was corporate research today.

Lorin Geitner was the law school’s employee of the month for November, 2007. Lorin is a Reference Lawyer/Librarian and the Webmaster for both the law library and the law school. The honor was in recognition of Lorin’s superior work which he kept up while dealing with several months of deafness.

Publications

Patricia Hart wrote the captions for photographs of California courthouse currently on display in the law school lobby.

Lorin Geitner will soon publish The “Next Friends” Suit: Mary Baker Eddy and the Church of Christian Science on Trial, in Sacred History Magazine. He was recently interviewed on “Worldview” on WBEZ, the Chicago public radio station, about an article he published, on the conception of end-times in Hinduism and Jainism.

Lorin has recently published two articles, Pub Fiction and The Science of Brewing, in the magazine Pub & Ale. He is also the U.S. Managing editor for Pub & Ale.

Patricia Hart published an article, New Tools for Reference: Law Librarians Look into the Future of Public Services, in AALL Spectrum, September/October 2007.

Isa Lang published a book review of Marsha Baum’s When Nature Strikes: Weather Disasters and the Law in the Law Library Journal. Isa has also published continuing supplements of Index to Federal Tax Articles, with Michael Lang, published by Thomson RIA, and the section on “Maine” in Pre-Statehood Legal Materials.

Tracie Hall had her photo of the San Gabriel Mountains, as seen from the Rinker Law Library, selected as the “View of the Month” in the April, 2007 issue of AALL Spectrum

Tracie Hall's Winning Photograph