The Law Bod is delighted to be able to announce that the Bodleian Libraries have negotiated the purchase of all the e-books included in the package Hart Publishing Law Collections 2014 – 2017 in perpetuity from Bloomsbury Professional This purchase means that 380 Hart books which previously the Law Bod held in print are now also available online.… Read More »
Connect 4, a game not of luck but mainly skill, there have even been studies done to work out the 9 main strategies to win the game. For us at the Law Bod it is mainly about putting coloured plastic discs in a grid to try to make a line of 4 before your opponent. … Read More »
As an addition to the Christmas blog series, we would just like to remind those leaving Oxford in the vacation to make sure you know how to access materials from outside the Oxford network. We know that you are most likely going to be busy with festivities but if you do decide to take a… Read More »
The Bodleian Law Library is participating in this year’s Oxford “Open Doors” weekend on Friday and Saturday, 8-9 September 2017. (Open Doors is organized by Oxford Preservation Trust, and events continue on Sunday, though the Law Library will not be open on that day.) The purpose of the weekend is to enable a wider public… Read More »
Reclassification Update This summer library staff are completing Phase Three of the Moys Reclassification Project. Staff will be reorganising books currently held in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. This is part of the long-term Moys re-classification project that has been underway since 2006. All the books will be fully accessible to our… Read More »
Many of you will have received an email direct from Thomson Reuters outlining the improvements that went live on the database ‘Practical Law (PLC)’ over the weekend. The aim of this blog post is to draw your attention to what we think the main improvements will be for you, the user. (If you are unfamiliar… Read More »
This 1970 Christmas no.1 is particularly apt for the past year for the Law Library. ‘I hear you knocking’ indeed: what with all the drilling, hammering, mess and disruption, it’s amazing that anyone got anything done. We (readers and staff) cannot wait to get back to our understanding of “quiet enjoyment” of a library. Our… Read More »
Who can forget the 1967 classic ‘Hello, Goodbye’ by the Beatles? Perhaps not the most diverse set of lyrics of any Christmas number 1, indeed here is a short sample; “You say goodbye and I say hello Hello hello I don’t know why you say goodbye, I say hello Hello hello I don’t know… Read More »
On first listening to the strains of There is no one quite like Grandma, this writer’s inner Scrooge leapt out unbidden: initial reaction was “A sugar tax cannot come soon enough!” (It remains to be seen whether the 2016 Budget‘s proposal of a new Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SIDL consultation) from April 2018 will survive… Read More »
Welcome to Oxford for Michaelmas Term for all those returning or those who are just joining us. We were hoping that we would be able to unveil our new refurbished library complete with new entrance and enquiry desk. However, despite valiant efforts from everyone, the work is still being finished off. We apologise for any… Read More »
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