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Newsletter October 2007The Library's Computer
Menu
The
Library's computer menu screen starts with a scrolling marquee, which welcomes
each user to the Law Library and provides information about the use of the public
stations.
The menu prominently presents our online Library Catalog as well as links
to our legal research guides and useful legal research Web links.
The Electronic Legal Research Guide section contains direct links to legal
research programs to which the library subscribes.
Many of these programs links allow searching of full text legal treatises,
court opinions, journals and periodicals. Other programs feature access to
federal and state court cases, plus court rules, maps and other information about
California courthouses.
Online Legal Research programs:
WestLaw - Caselaw, statutes, and regulations: Federal and all 50 states. KeyCiteŽ.
LLMCDigital - Law Library Microform Consortium offers full text public domain government documents. LLMCDigital comprises the world's largest collection of legal literature and government documents in microform.
Ask a Librarian! on
the Web
Sometimes you may be too
busy or too far away to get to our Library. We are offering certain Library
services from our Web page. The first of these services, "Ask a
Librarian", is an online e-form by which you may ask us legal reference
questions. Your questions will be answered by return e-mail.
Just click on the "Ask a Librarian" title above to begin.
Real-time 24/7
Legal Reference Service on the Web
Since April 2002, the
Orange County Public Law Library has been participating in a pilot project to
provide real time legal reference service via the internet. Our reference
librarians are fielding law-related questions and guiding the patron's browser to
the best resources on the Internet with collaborative browsing. This project,
called 24/7, answers law-related questions originating with the public. OCPLL
volunteers 10 hours per week to the project.
U.S. COURT OF
APPEALS FOR THE 9TH CIRCUIT
The Findlaw
site has 9th Circuit opinions from 1996 to present;
JuriSearch has
the opinions back to 1990; and the U.S. Court of Appeals site covers 1995
to present. In addition, the slip opinions appear on the U.S. Court of
Appeals site by 12 noon on the day of release. To find the links to
these sites go to our Federal Law
Research Guide or the Federal
Courts page.
PUBLIC CD-ROM
VIEWING STATION
A computer workstation is now available to
view our non-networked CD-ROM program titles.
Some of these legal research programs are available to check out.
You will find a list of these titles near the CD-ROM viewing station.
Using this station is free; however, printing is 15˘ per page.
PUBLIC WORD
PROCESSING STATION
A public word processing computer is available in the typing
room with Microsoft Office 2000 suite. There is a cost of $5.00 an hour to use the computer which does not include
the 15˘ per page for printing. Downloading is not available from this station.
The charges are deducted from a copy card, which may be purchased at the
library.
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer opportunities are available at the Orange County Public Law Library. Volunteers are a valuable resource, and perform a variety of tasks throughout the Library, such as shelving, filing looseleaf materials, and processing library materials.
If you are at least 18 years of age and interested in volunteering at the Library, you may obtain an application at the address below and an application will be sent to you. You may also contact Maryruth Storer, Director at (714) 834-3003 for information about the program.
Orange County
Public Law Library
515 North Flower Street Santa Ana, CA 92703 ¨
Phone (714) 834-3397 ¨
Fax (714)
834-4375