Lee Quo Wei Law Library Issue 1 , Sep/Oct 2014 The First Issue of Law Library e-Newsletter Inside this issue: Welcome Message 1 New Blackboard Learn Law Course 1 New JULAC Library Card 2 China & Law Practice 2 Investor-State LawGuide: 3 LRC Reference Collection 3 Law Library is on Twitter 4 now, Latest Law Blog entries and New Additions List for Law Welcome to the first issue of the Lee Quo Wei Law Library Newsletter. We aim to inform teaching and research staff of developments at the Law Library and new resources and websites that the Library has either subscribed to or added to the various Selected Internet Resources pages that we maintain on the Law Library webpage. 4/F of the Lee Quo Wei Law Library New Blackboard Learn Law Course The Library has recently developed a new Blackboard Learn course, CU-LIB205 Law Library and Legal Resources, in conjunction with ITSC and the Faculty of Law’s IT staff to support student learning by providing easy linking to library resources, library services and up-to-date library and legal resources information via Blackboard Learn. It serves as the one-spot research point to the Law Library and legal resources. Law students, including undergraduate and postgraduate, will have access to this course automatically after log-in to the Blackboard Learn. This course contains links to : Library Catalogue, Resources and Services Legal Information Guides and Other Law Resources Law Databases and Their User Guides Library Information for Undergraduate Students, Postgraduate Students, Faculty & Staff Past Examination Papers FAQs to Library Resources and Services Subject Guides to Resources Law Library Updates If you would like to have access to this course in your Blackboard Learn account, please send an email to Lily Ko at lilyko@lib.cuhk.edu.hk and we will add you to the course. Lee Quo Wei Law Library Newsletter Page 2 New JULAC Library Card By agreement among the eight UGC-funded university libraries, eligible library users holding a JULAC Library Card may access to the other UGC libraries. JULAC Library Card Replacement The new JULAC Library Cards has recently been introduced and all existing paper cards will expire by 31 December 2014. You are cordially requested to replace your paper card with the new plastic JULAC Library Card by filling out the online form and submit your digital photo (JPG or PNG only). Upon receipt of your application and photo, your application will be processed within 5 working days. An email notification will be sent to you once the new card is ready for pick up at the University Library, Medical Library or Legal Resources Center. For card replacement, please return the old JULAC Library card when picking up the new card. China Law & Practice New Legislation Database China Law and Practice (CLP) is one of the leading Chinese business law journals. It has launched a new legislation database on Chinese law: http://www.chinalawandpractice.com/China-LegislationDatabase.html Our subscription to China Law and Practice include access to this new legislation database. Please send email to Mr Gareth Fox Gareth.fox@euromoneyasia.com for individual login/password to receive this new legislation database. They will send you their newsletter via email as well. Please advise them that you are CUHK staff. Caption describing picture or graphic. Lee Quo Wei Law Library Newsletter Page 3 Investor-State LawGuide: Training Investor-State LawGuide (ISLG) is a collection of tools for researching international investment treaty law. The scope of ISLG's document collection includes all publicly available decisions and awards where the subject of the claim is an investment treaty. Currently, NAFTA and ICSID awards and decisions are the most complete. The collection also includes investment treaties, bilateral investment treaties, and rules. They offers online tutorial to this database. Please contact Subash Kuttan (skuttan@investorstatelawguide.com) if you would like to have an online tutorial. Please note that due to the time difference, a meeting at 8.00am HKT or earlier would be ideal for them. They have training videos on Screencast and YouTube which serve as a supplement to their training sessions. For current updates of this database, please sign up for their weekly mailing list here or follow them on Twitter (ISLG_updates) and LinkedIn. LRC Reference Collection The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) Reference Collection, including dictionaries, Halsbury’s Laws of Hong Kong, Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong, was not for circulating in the past. We have released the loan rule and all materials in the LRC Reference Collection, except looseleaf publications, are available to borrow for one day from the LRC now! Lee Quo Wei Law Library Newsletter Page 4 Law Library is on Twitter now ! We now have a Twitter account for the Law Library. Please follow us @cuhklawlib for the latest news of the CUHK Library. Latest Law Blog entries Faculty of Law Legal Citation Style Guide (Version 18 (October 2014)) http://law-lib.blogspot.hk/2014/10/faculty-of-law-legal-citationstyle.html openlaws http://law-lib.blogspot.hk/2014/10/openlaws.html New Additions to the Law Firm Pamphlet Collection http://lawlib.blogspot.hk/2014/10/new-additions-to-law-firm-pamphlet.html New Additions List for LAW http://www.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/newtitle/ thisbi-wk/k.html Chinese Hong Kong Electronic Citation (CHKEC) http://lawlib.blogspot.hk/2014/09/chinese-hong-kong-electronic-citation.html September /October 2014 Editors: John Bahrij , Head of Branch Services & Law Librarian (Tel: 3943 1705/ Email: johnbahrij@lib.cuhk.edu.hk) Lily Ko , LRC Librarian (Tel: 3529 5948/Email: lilyko@lib.cuhk.edu.hk) Address: 4/F, Tin Ka Ping Building, CUHK Website: http://lib.cuhk.edu.hk/law