Recently Gallagher Law Library librarians Nancy McMurrer, Cheryl Nyberg, Ann Hemmens, and Associate Dean Penny Hazelton presented a series of Continuing Legal Education sessions on advanced Internet searching. The CLE lasted 3.5 hours, and covered many wonderful tips and tricks for making one's searching on the Internet more efficient and effective.

The Gallagher Law Library is happy to partner with the University of Washington School of Law CLE Office to offer a shortened version of this program for LIBRARIANS.

This session has been scheduled for Friday February 21, 2003 from 3-5 pm in the Law School (Condon Hall Room 135). The first hour will be spent demonstrating how to get the most out of Google. The second hour will cover briefly the databases that are part of the invisible web and techniques for locating relevant legal materials. Cheryl Nyberg and Penny Hazelton will be the guides for this lively session.

• Advanced search techniques, including how to get the most out of today's premier search engine, Google.
• The Invisible (or Deep) Web - what is it?
• Public Records.
• Court Records.
• Business and Nonlegal Resources.
• Finding Reliable Sources for Free Primary State Law
• Internet Archive Wayback Machine

THIS PROGRAM IS OPEN TO LIBRARIANS ONLY. The registration fee is $25 per person. You may register online for this timely program. The deadline to register is February 20, 2003.

Mary Whisner, primo Reference Librarian at the Gallagher Law Library, attended the December session and found that she learned a lot of new information that she has already put to use in her work here!

Associate Dean Penny A. Hazelton is the director of the Gallagher Law Library at the University of Washington School of Law. She has been teaching legal research for over 20 years to law students, faculty, and others. She co-authored the Washington Legal Researcher’s Deskbook, 2d and is the principal author of Computer Assisted Legal Research: The Basics. Professor Hazelton earned her JD from Lewis and Clark’s Northwestern School of Law, and her MLL from the University of Washington. She has worked in both the print and electronic legal research worlds and finds that the power of integrating these two systems can result in a much better quality research product.

Ann Hemmens, Reference Librarian at the University of Washington Gallagher Law Library, earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois, and her law degree and Master of Science in Library Science degree from the University of North Carolina. She has worked as a reference assistant at the University of North Carolina Law Library, the Law Library of Congress and as a health policy analyst for a state government agency. She co-authored chapters in the third edition of the Washington Legal Researcher's Deskbook. She enjoys the challenges of teaching the online and traditional legal research skills to members of the legal community and the general public.

Nancy McMurrer has a JD degree from the University of Virginia and a MLS (Law Librarianship) from the University of Washington. She has practiced law with a government agency, worked as a reference librarian in a Seattle law firm and, since 1994, has been a reference librarian at the University of Washington Gallagher Law Library. Ms. McMurrer teaches legal research in the first-year basic legal skills course as well as in upper level law school courses, and is co-author of the third edition of the Washington Legal Researcher's Deskbook. Experience has taught her that integrating the Internet with the more traditional legal research tools leads to more efficient and effective results.

Cheryl Rae Nyberg is a veteran law librarian with 20 years of experience in legal research and government information. A reference librarian at the University of Washington Gallagher Law Library, she assists law students, faculty, attorneys, and members of the public in locating and using online and print legal materials. She edits the Law Library's website, explores the Internet daily, is a co-author of the third edition of the Washington Legal Researcher's Deskbook, and has testified as an expert witness on Internet searching at a federal trial. Her MLIS was earned at the University of Illinois.

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