| 50 is a Milestone |
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(And one that I’ll experience personally come August.) Anyway, Jenkins is offering 50 CLE classes during the January-April compliance period — beginning with Basic Westlaw a week from today — as well as one non-CLE class, Business Development 101. That’s the most classes we’ve ever offered during any compliance period in the 10+ years I’ve been at Jenkins. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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Comments (0)January 11, 2010
| If You Can See This, Then You Don’t Need To Read This |
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We had some ISP-related gotchas for a couple of hours, but we’re now back up and running. Sorry for any inconvenience. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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December 23, 2009
| Oh, There’s No Place Like Jenkins For The Holidays [UPDATED] |
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Here’s the Jenkins holiday schedule:
UPDATE, December 28: Sorry, class is canceled for December, but is rescheduled for April 28, 2010.
We wish our best to you and yours. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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August 10, 2009
| WilsonWeb Cool Features, Just For You |
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If you are a frequent user of WilsonWeb thru Jenkins you might be interested in recent enhancements to this database:
WilsonWeb is just one of the many benefits you enjoy as a Jenkins member. If you’re not already a member, why not join today? |
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Submitted by: Katrina Piechnik, Library Systems Manager
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January 16, 2009
| “Future of Jenkins” Survey [UPDATED] |
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UPDATE: The deadline for participation has been extended until Friday, January 30. Jenkins has engaged Axelroth & Associates to assist with refreshing our library’s Strategic Plan. Today, libraries face many challenges and we want to be sure that we are positioned to meet them over the next few years. We need your help in identifying the library services and resources that you value most, as well as input on other topics. We want to make sure that we continue to meet our members’ needs now and in the future. Our consultants have developed a survey that should take no more than 15 minutes to complete to get your feedback. We are offering a certificate for a free one-hour CLE class to those who participate in the survey in appreciation for your input. Thanks in advance for your feedback. |
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Submitted by: Regina L. Smith, Executive Director
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December 31, 2008
| Jenkins Closed on Saturdays Beginning January 2009 |
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Having reviewed usage on Saturdays over the past few years, we found that an average of 14 patrons, some of them members of the general public, use Jenkins on Saturdays. This is less than 3% of our membership The cost of keeping Jenkins open on Saturdays is about $30,000 annually. Not only do we pay for staffing, we also have to pay for utilities and other operational costs. In addition, the people who work on Saturdays are off on Mondays, so we are short staffed on that day. Having analyzed the situation and spoken with our Board of Directors, we have made the decision to eliminate Saturday hours at Jenkins beginning in January 2009. We recognize that some of our members want to work on the weekend and we believe that we can offer a service that will assist them with their research. In 2009, we will offer 24/7 access to Fastcase, a high-quality online legal research alternative to the larger commercial vendors. Fastcase offers unlimited searching of cases, statutes and regulations for all 50 states and Federal coverage as well. This new service will be available to all members who are solos or with firms with less than 50 attorneys. There will be no time limits for your research as we have with the Lexis Thru Jenkins Remote Program. We plan to continue the Lexis Thru Jenkins Remote program, for solos and firms with 10 or fewer attorneys. Our excellent web site, www.jenkinslaw.org , links to legal and non-legal information and our library of remote access databases that members can search from home or office continues to grow. We dislike having to withdraw a member benefit, but we are confident that the combination of remote databases we offer will assist our members with many of their after hours research needs. |
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Submitted by: Regina L. Smith, Executive Director
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November 10, 2008
| If You Think Gasoline Is Expensive, Then Consider This |
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On average, your printer’s black ink costs you about $4,731 per gallon. This tidbit comes from PC World, which recently ran a test using one of the models from each of the top 4 printer manufacturers to see just how much ink is left in a cartridge when the printer forces you to change it. The results:
A shameful waste of energy, chemicals and packaging, not to mention money. The facile conclusion? Third-party print cartridges may cost less to buy, but given their inferior performance they may not be cheaper to use in the long run. The more important conclusion? Stop printing. Look for creative ways to capture, store and communicate important info. For example, I have a Mac at home, so I can print to a PDF file, which I can email to others. (With a little work, you can do this with Windows, too.) How about sharing documents with colleagues using Google Docs or Zoho? And at Jenkins, we’ve recently added a feature to our online catalog so that you can text the title and call number of a book to your cellphone. I recognize that you can never eliminate all of your printing. But this is simple stuff. It’s all about changing bad habits. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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October 7, 2008
| LexisNexis Congressional |
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We’ve just added a great new resource to our Member Online Services. LexisNexis Congressional is available 24/7 to all Jenkins members. This web site will help all of those federal legislative researchers out there. For starters, it provides access to the Statutes at Large (1789-present) and the United States Code. Then comes all of the wonderful federal legislative history material. There are Committee Reports (select coverage 1990-present), Committee Prints (select coverage 1993-2004) and the Congressional Record (1985-present). This product offers full Congressional Hearings in a digital format (searchable PDFs) from 2004-present and select testimony transcripts & submitted statements from 1988-present. As an extra bonus the CFR is searchable from 1981-present. As you do your research on LexisNexis Congressional, you might come across abstracts to older material that is not available in full text. If you need one of these documents, call our reference desk at 215-574-1505 or email research@jenkinslaw.org. We have an almost complete collection of federal legislative history documents here at the library from 1970-present and select material available prior to 1970! |
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Submitted by: Jenny Hohenstein, Research Services Manager
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September 11, 2008
| Congressional Record |
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Check out the U.S. Congressional Documents on HeinOnline. This is a great new addition to our Member Online Services. Search or browse the Congressional Record (1873-2003) or the Congressional Record Daily (1994-2008) from your desktop. As with all of our Member Online Services, they are accessible 24/7. Wondering what the difference is between the Congressional Record and the Congressional Record Daily? Both contain debates and proceedings from the floor of the U.S. House and Senate. The Daily gets published quicker and is numbered with a pagination system that begins with H for House, S for Senate or E for Extension of Remarks. The Congressional Record, sometimes referred to as the bound or permanent edition, gives legislators a chance to revise or amend remarks. The permanent edition should usually be cited to, unless it is not yet available. HeinOnline is only available to Jenkins members in firms with less than 50 attorneys. |
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Submitted by: Jenny Hohenstein, Research Services Manager
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September 4, 2008
| U.S. Federal Agency Decisions added to Member Online Services Remote Access |
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Jenkins has added the U.S. Federal Agency Library from HeinOnline to our Member Online Services remote access databases. You can search or browse decisions from the National Labor Relations Board, the Federal Communications Commission, the Board of Immigration Appeals and much more! Many titles have great coverage – the Internal Revenue Cumulative Bulletin, for example, goes all the way back to 1919. HeinOnline is only available to Jenkins members in firms with less than 50 attorneys. |
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Submitted by: Jenny Hohenstein, Research Services Manager
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