A Year in Review: 2010

At the close of 2010, take a second to reflect on the top Charlotte Law Library News posts of the year.  The blog posts were determined, by you, the reader, based on how popular you considered them throughout the year.

1. Library Summer Hours. Driven mostly because of the cute cartoon sun, viewers hit this post 3 times as many times as our #2.
2. Home page of the Charlotte Law Library News, which changes weekly based on the blog submission provided by the Charlotte Law Library Team.  The blogs range from announcement of library news to updates in new library technology to funny cartoons drawn in-house.
3. CSL Mobile Reference.  Join our Friends List: We’re available at CSLReference.
4. New in Town? Written by Ms. Jamie Sunnycalb.  From malls to sporting events, she explores the ins and outs of Charlotte’s hot spots and entertainment.  This post is a great guide to Charlotte, especially for the new CharlotteLaw student.
5. Murphy’s Law School: 2. Charlotte Law Library’s original comic created by Access Services Manager, Kim Allman, and CSL former Reference Librarian, Anthony Aycock.
6. Murphy’s Law School 4. The fourth in the series of comics depicting humorous legal scenerios.
7. The North Carolina Bar Exam: Tips and Tricks. A compilation of resources for studying and taking the Bar Exam in North Carolina.
8. North Carolina regulations regarding coyote community. “The law of coyotes in North Carolina is a well-developed common law tradition dating from the earliest years of British rule to the present day. This rich heritage of amusing anecdotes, famous cases, and important contributions to the law of ferae naturae is well documented” in this blog post written by CharlotteLaw’s former reference librarian, Tom Hemstock.
9. Murphy’s Law School. The original comic strip posted for entertainment purposes by the Charlotte Law Library Staff.
10. Thinking that the North Carolina Bar exam is hard???? A comical take on the North Carolina Bar Exam versus Montana’s requirements.

CCH to Intelliconnect

Over the past 6-8 months CCH has worked diligently to go through a complete revamping of their research interface.  In August, they introduced the new platform, IntelliConnect.  Intelli-what?  IntelliConnect is “the revolutionary research platform that will streamline your workflow, improve accuracy and efficiency and give you unprecedented access to CCH’s world-class content. IntelliConnect is a functional and technological evolution to CCH’s current, renowned research platform, known as Tax Research NetWork™ and Internet Research NetWork™.”  For more answers to your questions, Intelliconnect has developed a FAQ page that is extremely helpful.

What type of material  is available on Intelliconnect?

• News and current awareness tools
• Practice-ready tools on state and local taxes, human resources, benefits, health care compliance, labor and employment law, payroll and pension issues.
• Explanations, analysis, treatises, and guidebooks on all of the before-mentioned topics
• Laws, regulations and other primary resources involving OSHA, environmental compliance, FDA regulations, and primary sources on tax, accounting, human resources, and employment law areas.

Take a virtual tour on this database and see how easy it is to use!

-Liz McCurry-