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Ongoing:

[Updated monthly] Notable Internet Resources (formerly known as "Online Update")
This publication is produced by the Langdell Reference Department on a twice monthly basis. These updates feature topical lists and brief descriptions of interesting, publicly available Web sites. Commercial databases purchased by Harvard Law School Library available only to the HLS community are occasionally featured. An archive of past Notable Internet Resource postings is also available.

2007

[Posted 9/17/07] LibraryFest Open House returns to the Library, September 19^th
[Posted: 10/23/07] IM makes Reference Librarians available on-line

2006:

[Posted 11/30/06] Additional Scanning Stations Added
[Posted 10/25/06] Archive of America, Training for U.S. Legal History Researchers
[Posted 10/12/06] Upcoming Freund Exhibit & Reception 10/17/06
[Posted 9/19/06] LibraryFest '06 Exceeds Expectations
[Posted 8/31/06] Library Tours for 1Ls
[Posted 8/25/06] Digital Scanner Now Available for Patron Use
[Posted 8/25/06] New Chairs Arrive in the Library
[Posted 8/24/06] Construction on Level-3 is Complete!
[Posted 6/13/06] Construction Begins on Level-3
[Posted 3/01/06] ExpressO Journal Preprint Service Now Available
[Posted 1/25/06] New Caspersen Room Exhibit: Seavey Retrospective
[Posted 1/20/06] Ames Brief: Research Review Sessions Available

2005:

[Posted 12/15/05] Starting in '06: Opening Earlier on Sundays!
[Posted 11/2/05] New Caspersen Room Exhibit: Legacies of Nuremberg
[Posted 9/26/05] Lemann Lounge Unavailable
[Posted 9/26/05] Noise Alert
[Posted 9/16/05] New Caspersen Room Exhibit: Charles Hamilton Houston
[Posted 9/12/05] 1L Library Tours
[Posted 9/2/05] Announcing: Love Your LibraryFest
[Posted 6/29/05] New LexisNexis ID Policy
[Posted 6/22/05] E-Research @ Harvard Libraries Debuts June 30
[Posted 5/6/05] Laptop Printing Capabilities Expand, Second Printer Added
[Posted 4/13/05] New Classes on Admin. and Securities Law Research
[Posted 4/11/05] Laptop Printing Comes to the Library
[Posted 2/25/05] Photocopiers Unavailable
[Posted 1/31/05] The Making of Modern Law, Online Collection Now Available
[Posted 1/28/05] Overnight Hours Extended Through Spring Term
[Posted 1/20/05] Ames Brief Research Review Sessions

2004:

[Posted 12/3/04] Library Offers Overnight Hours
[Posted 10/20/04] New Online System for ILL Requests
[Posted 10/20/04] Third-Year Paper Research Consultations Are Available
[Posted 10/12/04] Instructions for handling a common printing problem, the "Invalid Password" issue.
[Posted 5/19/04] An online version of the March 2004 Caspersen Room exhibition: The Legal Portrait Project Online. This exhibition highlighted work recently completed which digitized and electronically cataloged a large portion of the Harvard Law School Library's large collection of historical legal portraiture.
[Posted 5/5/04] Getting Ready for Summer Research Guides
This brand new "Getting Ready for Summer" series of research guides has been created by the Library's Reference Staff especially for Harvard students working as summer associates. They are designed to perform under pressure -- giving you quick answers and “cut to the chase” advice on starting a research project.
[Posted 4/22/04] Caspersen Room Exhibit: The Harvard Law School and the Road to Brown
New Exhibit Highlights Harvard Graduates’ Contributions in the Struggle for Racial Equality. Additional description from an article in the HLSL Newsletter.
[Posted 3/12/04] TRACfed
The library is pleased to announce its recent subscription to TRACfed. The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a data gathering, data research and data distribution organization associated with Syracuse University. TRAC's purpose is to provide with comprehensive information about federal staffing, spending, and the enforcement activities of the federal government. TRACfed provides a wide range of information about federal enforcement activities as well as detailed information about federal staffing, federal funds, and the diverse characteristics of counties, federal districts, and states. TRACfed data is organized into several modules including: Criminal Enforcement, Civil Enforcement, Administrative Enforcement, People & staffing, Money (Federal Funds), and Community Context. TRACfed is available to members of the HLS community. Access is controlled by HLS IP address.
[Posted 2/25/04] HLS Library Unveils Legal Portraits Exhibit
The Harvard Law School Library has announced the opening of a new exhibition entitled "The Legal Portrait Project Online." The exhibition is the culmination of an 18-month project to catalog, digitize and make available the law school's 4,000-item portrait collection of lawyers, jurists, and legal thinkers dating from the Middle Ages to the late twentieth century. The exhibition, which is on display in the Caspersen Room of the library, is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. until March 31.