Labor & Employment Law Journal Library Orientation

1. Labor & Employment Law Journal Library Orientation August 16, 2015

2. Orientation Session Goals • Policies and procedures • Borrowing items for journal • Commonly used databases • Library catalog • Journal Finder • Databases • Library Services • Interlibrary loan • Axinndocument delivery

3. Borrowing Items • Photocopy in the journal office • Can use scanner in library • Check items out under the journal account • Use your own account for note/paper research! • To borrow items from Axinn, get the journal’s library card from the law library circulation desk

4. Typical Types of Documents • a. Scholarship • i. Books • ii. Book chapters (E-book download instructions on the journal cite checking libguide) • iii. Articles • iv. Newspapers • b. Legislative materials • c. Cases and decisions

5. Commonly Used Databases • Library Catalog (Lexicat) • HeinOnline • WorldCat • Law Library databases • Axinn Library databases • Article Finding: • Journal Finder • Index to Legal Periodicals

6. Library Catalog (Lexicat) • Available document types: • books • book chapters • newspaper/bar journals • journals • cases decisions (reporters) • legislative materials • Access from Library Homepage > Research & Instruction > Library Catalog or http://libweb.hofstra.edu/

9. HeinOnline • Available documents types: • Law journal articles • Legislative material • Bar journals • Cases (Fastcase) • Legislative materials

10. HeinOnline Searchable database of selected law review/journal titles and other libraries

11. WorldCat • WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and materials • Allows users to search the collections of libraries in your community and around the world • Can search for books, articles, newspapers, journals, legislative material, videos and other digital content

12. WorldCat

14. WorldCat

15. Law Library Databases

16. Labor and Employment Law • BNA Labor Relations Reporter • CCH Labor Law Reporter (Westlaw)  • NLRB website • E-CFR

17. NLRB Decisions-WWW.NLRB.ORG

18. Axinn Library Databases • Types of documents: • Non-legal articles • Interdisciplinary articles • Newspapers • Statistics

19. Axinn Library Databases

20. Journal Finder • Types of documents: • Journals • Newspapers • Magazines • Provides access to legal and non-legal journals, magazines, newspapers that are subscribed to by the University • Not exhaustive-MUST check Library Catalog!

21. Journal Finder

22. Index to Legal Periodicals • Types of documents (citations and full text): • Scholarly articles-both legal and non-legal • Symposia • Jurisdictional surveys • Court decisions • Books

23. Index to Legal Periodicals

24. Index to Legal Periodicals

25. Indexes to Citations • Bluebook T1 – Remember new edition! • Bieber’s Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations • Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations • http://www.legalabbrevs.cardiff.ac.uk/

26. Internet Sources • Google Scholar • Google Books • Fdsys-legislative material in PDF format • Search by citation • General keyword search

27. Library Services • Interlibrary loan (ILL) • Make sure that it exists as spelled-use Worldcat and Google Books • If it’s a journal article, check Journal Finder • Verify with a reference librarian and get the OCLC number for the item. • Give the information to an editor. A research editor will request the interlibrary loan (ILL). We do not ILL cases or newspaper articles • Axinn document delivery • Use this service for print journals held by Axinn Library. • Make sure to include that you need the title page, title page verso and table of contents in your request. • Limit 3 article requests per form submission. • Approximate turnaround time is 2 business days.

28. Research Guides • Hofstra • Journal Cite Checking • Georgetown • http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/research/index.cfm