Good Library Karma
by Larisa Bosma
Do you hate getting overdue notices? Do you hate wasting the resources
that production of those notices involves?
SOLUTION: Renew your materials before going away for the holidays. Go to
the Library's catalog and
click on View Your Library Record, the link in the lower lefthand corner of
the page. You'll be prompted to enter your name and barcode (from your Husky
Card). At the next screen you can choose to view a list of items checked out
to you. Here you can renew any (non-Reserve) items not already renewed twice
and identify any items you won't need next quarter which you can then return
to the Library.
Also, it's especially important to return Reserve items promptly since
overdue notices (and bills) are generated much more quickly for these items.
With your library materials in good standing, you can enjoy your holidays
with good library karma!
Library Hours in December
The Library will be closed December 21 (Saturday) through December 25
(Wednesday) and December 28-29 (Saturday and Sunday). The
King County Law Library in downtown
Seattle will be open in late December if you need access to legal materials;
but they will be closed December 21 (Sat.), December 25 (Wed.), and December
28 (Sat.). If you are desperate for a law library check out the addresses
and hours for various law libraries in
Washington state.
Book of the Week: Tempered Zeal
Tempered Zeal: A Columbia Law Professor's Year on the Streets with the New
York City Police, by H. Richard Uviller (Contemporary Books, 1988).
HV6795.N5 U95 1988 at Classified Stacks
The subtitle says it all! This law professor, who taught constitutional
law and criminal procedure, spent eight months of his sabbatical riding
around Manhattan with the detectives and patrol officers in the Ninth
Precinct's Robbery Identification Program. Professor Uviller had been
teaching law for fourteen years and felt removed from the reality of the
streets that he had known as an Assistant District Attorney in New York
City. He wanted to see how the cops understood the rules about warrants,
interrogations, etc.
One book reviewer commented, "[s]killfully woven through the stories are
the strands of law that govern the actions of the police in the relentless
pursuit of the elusive perp ... Uviller's description of the cops' struggle
to do the job well and do it right has the ring of truth." According to
another reviewer, "[t]he anecdotes and observations offer a compelling
though necessarily partial picture of the atmosphere and setting of police
life and the ways in which police respond to the constraints of the
Constitution as judicially interpreted."
For additional descriptions of selected books, see the
Book of the Week Archive.
SEC Releases Rules of Conduct for Lawyers
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently released proposed
rules for regulating the conduct of securities lawyers. These proposed rules
were promulgated by the SEC in response to the mandate within the Sarbanes
Oxley Act. The proposed rules are open for public comment until December
18th.
Text of the Proposed rules: "Implementation of Standards of Professional
Conduct for Attorneys,"
http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/33-8150.htm, to amend 17 CFR Part 205. |
