Database – The Reporter

Summer 2023 New Resources

During Summer 2023, the Law Library added the following new resources to the collection to support the research and curricular needs of our faculty and students.

New Resources

Bloomberg BNA Law Reports (Archive) – Bloomberg BNA’s Law Reports archives pre-1996 BNA materials. Archives are arranged by the different practicing subject matters.

HeinOnline’s Voting Rights & Election Law – This collection is devoted to the electoral process: how elections are conducted, the strategy and controversies of political campaigns, how votes are counted, and who is allowed to vote. It contains content on historical and more recent elections, as well as elections conducted both in the United States and from around the world.

HeinOnline’s U.S. Congressional Serial Set — The United States Congressional Serial Set, commonly referred to as the Serial Set, is considered the most essential publication for unveiling American history. Spanning more than two centuries, the records in this series include House and Senate Documents, House and Senate Reports, the American State Papers, and much more. The Serial Set is indexed and contains full-text coverage from inception to date.

New Books

EVIDENCE

1. Anthony J Bocchino, JoAnne A. Epps, and David A. Sonenshein, 101 Vignettes for Improving Trial Evidence Skills (2023).

LEGAL EDUCATION

2. Aliza Wong, Sean Cunningham, Terry Greenberg, and B. Lynn Whitfield, eds., 100 Years, 100 Voices: Texas Tech University (2022).

LEGAL PROFESSION

3. David R. McClean, Strategic Planning: As Simple as A, B, C (2015).

LEGAL RESEARCH AND LIBRARIES

4. Elizabeth G. Adelman and Jessica de Perio Wittman, eds., Organizational Structures of Academic Law Libraries: Past, Present, and Future (2023).

5. Jean M. Converse and Stanley Presser, Survey Questions: Handcrafting the Standardized Questionnaire (1986).

PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

6. Peter M. Shane, Democracy’s Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the Presidency (2022).

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

7. Peter J. Henning, The Prosecution and Defense of Public Corruption: The Law and Legal Strategies (2015).

All resources are available from the Law Library. If you would like to check out any of these titles, please contact the circulation desk at either 806-742-3957 or circulation.law@ttu.edu.

All electronic databases are available through the Library’s webpage, http://www.depts.ttu.edu/law/lawlibrary/index.php. Library staff will be able to assist in locating and checking out any of these items or helping you contact the Librarian on call for questions about electronic resources.

FBI Records: The Vault: Record Requests

This is the last in a four part series featuring the FBI records Vault. Each part highlights a different feature of the site.

FBI records can be requested through both the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act. to request a record you can submit your request a couple of different ways explained on the FBI website. Once You have made a request you may check on it through The Vault site.

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Status information is updated weekly. You need your FOI/PA request number to use this feature.

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There are some exemptions to the FOIA/PA which are explained on the site.

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The Vault can be reached through the FBI website under the Services Tab.

FBI Records: The Vault: Exploring a Report

This is the third part in a four part series featuring the FBI records Vault. Each part will highlight a different feature of the site.

When you click on a file, it loads in a reader that enables you to view one or two pages at a time, search for key words, shrink or enlarge the size of the text, use different scroll features, and more. In many cases, the quality and clarity of the individual files has also been improved.

The files can be accessed by a couple of different ways from the home page.

You can select a category, search for something specific, or look through their index.

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Once you select a topic the available files will be displayed.

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You can look through the file in the browser or open and download the pdf version.

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The Vault can be reached through the FBI Website under the Services Tab.

July 2021 New Resources

In July 2021, the Law Library added the following new resources to the collection to support the research and curricular needs of our faculty and students.

New Resources

Law.com – Law.com provides timely legal news and analysis to stories from American Lawyer Media’s national and regional publications including The Recorder, the American Lawyer and the National Law Journal. Links to these individual publications are in the pull-down menu in the top left corner of the Law.com site. To access this site, the user needs to use our proxied link in our Electronic Resources List.

New Books

BANKING AND FINANCE

1. Karol K. Sparks, The Keys to Banking Law: A Handbook for Lawyers (2020).

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

2. American Bar Association American Bar Association, Antitrust Law Section, Joint Ventures: Antitrust Analysis of Collaborations Among Competitors (2020).

DOMESTIC RELATIONS

3. Rachel Rebouche, Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten (2020).

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

4. H. Ward Classen, The Practical Guide to Software Licensing and Cloud Computing (2020).

LEGAL EDUCATION

5. Gilberto Q. Conchas and Nancy Acevedo, The Chicana/o/x Dream: Hope, Resistance, and Educational Success (2020).

6. Carolyn Caffrey Gardner, Elizabeth Galoozis, and Rebecca Halpern, eds., Hidden Architectures of Information Literacy Programs: Structures, Practices, and Contexts (2020).

LEGAL PROFESSION

7. Alex Davies, ed., Lawyer Health and Wellbeing: How the Legal Profession Is Tackling Stress and Creating Resiliency (2020).

MILITARY, WAR, AND PEACE

8. David A. Schlueter, Stephen A. Saltzburg, Lee D. Schinasi, and Edward J. Imwinkelried, Military Evidentiary Foundations (2021).

MOTOR VEHICLES

9. Zachary B. Pyers and Kenton H. Steele, eds., Ridesharing Law and Liability (2020).

NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS

10. Jill R. Horwitz, Restatement of the Law, Charitable Nonprofit Organizations: As Adopted and Promulgated by the American Law Institute at Washington, D.C., May 17, 2016; May 22, 2017; and May 20, 2019 (2021).

All resources are available from the Law Library. If you would like to check out any of these titles, please contact the circulation desk at either 806-742-3957 or circulation.law@ttu.edu.

All electronic databases are available through the Library’s webpage, http://www.depts.ttu.edu/law/lawlibrary/index.php.

Library staff will be able to assist in locating and checking out any of these items or helping you contact the Librarian on call for questions about electronic resources.

FBI Records: The Vault : Search Functions

This is the second in a four part series featuring the FBI’s Records Vault. Each part will Highlight a different feature of the site.

The Vault contains a couple of different easy to use search functions including search by topic and a keyword search.

You can browse or search for specific topics or persons by using the alphabetical listing, the search tool in the upper right of the site, or by checking the different category lists that can be found in the menu on the right side of the Home page.

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In the search results, click on the folder to see all of the files for that particular topic.

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In some cases you can search for key words within a specific document by typing in terms in the search box in the upper right hand of the file after it has been opened and loaded.

The Vault can be reached through the FBI website under the Services Tab.