Volume 3, Issue 3

In This Issue

| Library News | Selected Acquisitions | Web Site to Watch | Research Corner | CD-ROM Corner | Calendar of Events |

Library News

Headquarters Law Library

Database Training

The library staff welcomes you back to a new season of trainings designed to enhance your research skills and provide more information at your fingertips. Training sessions on selected law-related databases in the library's database collection (RIDER) will be held in November. In addition, you can continue to refine your research skills by attending monthly trainings for the legal and news databases in LexisNexis. See the training schedule.

Aviation Safety and Security Bibliographies

The DOT library staff has compiled several bibliographies on aviation safety and security from the viewpoints of the government, the public, the GAO, and the legislative branch. The bibliographies are available in all three library branches.

New District of Columbia Code

The DOT library recently received its new set of the D.C. Code. On January 5, 2001, the Council of the District of Columbia named West Group to be the publisher of the official version of the District of Columbia Code Annotated. This publication renders the 1981 edition of the D.C. Code Annotated obsolete.

Amnesty Week

In an effort to better serve all of our customers, the DOT Library has designated October 21st through November 2nd as Amnesty Weeks. Any library materials may be returned during this time with no questions asked.

FAA Law Library

The FAA Law Library welcomes a new intern! Anne Foley is currently pursuing her Masters' degree at Catholic University's School of Library and Information Science. Anne comes to this internship with a wealth of experience. She obtained her law degree from Tulane University School of Law in 1982 and has done extensive legal research and writing for the National Legal Research Group in Charlottesville, Virginia. She is a member of the D.C. Bar and the American Association of Law Libraries.

Selected Law Library Acquisitions

Headquarters:

Cases and Materials on Legislation: Statutes and the Creation of Public Policy 3rd Edition. (2001). W.N. Eskridge, P.P. Frickey, E. Garrett. St. Paul, MN: West Group. [LAW KF 4945.A7 E85]

Patent Trademark and Copyright Laws. (2001). Jeffrey M. Samuels (Ed.). Washington DC: Bureau of National Affairs.

Port State Control. (2001). Z. Oya Ozcayir. London: LLP Professional Publishing. [LAW HE 588.7 O99]

A Guide to Merit Systems Protection Board Law and Practice 18th Edition. (2001). P. Broida. Arlington, VA: Dewey Publications. [LAW KF 5338.B76]

Taking Disciplinary Actions: A Federal Supervisor's Guide to Corrective Discipline 2nd Edition. (1999). M. Corum. Arlington, VA: Dewey Publications. [LAW KF 5340.C67]

Compensatory Damages and Other Remedies in Federal Sector Employment Discrimination Cases. (2001). G.M. Gilbert. Arlington, VA: Dewey Publications. [LAW KF 5342.G55]

A Guide to Federal Sector Disability Discrimination Law and Practice. (2000). E.C. Hadley, E. Laws, P. Broida. Arlington, VA: Dewey Publications. [LAW KF 5355.H33]

A Guide to Federal Labor Relations Authority Law and Practice 14th Edition. (2001). P. Broida. Arlington, VA: Dewey Publications. [LAW KF 5365.A5 B7]

A Guide to Federal Sector Equal Employment Law and Practice 14th Edition. (2001). E.C. Hadley. Arlington, VA: Dewey Publications. [LAW KF 5342.H33]

The EEO Counselors' and Investigators' Manual. (2001). G. Gilbert. Arlington, VA: Dewey Publications. [LAW HD 4903.5.U6 H33]

FAA:

Foreign Law: Current Sources of Codes and Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World.. (2001). T. Reynolds, A. Flores
Littleton, CO: F.B. Rothman. [LAW K38.R49]

Coast Guard:

The Economics of Biological Invasions. (2000). C. Perrings, M. Williamson, S. Dalmazzone (Eds.). Northampton, MA: Edwar Elgar Publishing. [QH 353.E36]

Web Site to Watch

Admiralty and Maritime Law Guide

http://www.admiraltylawguide.com/index.html
This website contains over 1,500 annotated links to admiralty law resources on the Internet, with an emphasis on the law of the United States. It also includes a growing database of case digests, opinions, arbitration award abstracts and international maritime conventions. The site's author provides added value by marking particularly comprehensive websites with flags. This site is well indexed and updated frequently.

Research and Reference Corner

Legal Research Digest

Legal Research Digest is a monthly publication from the Transportation Research Board's Cooperative Research Programs (National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)). The NCHRP and the TCRP are national applied research programs that develop practical solutions to problems in highway transportation and transit. The two programs also solicit proposals to conduct the research. The Legal Research Digest provides preliminary awareness of research results from the NCHRP project (Legal Problems Arising Out of Highway Programs) and from the TCRP project (Legal Aspects of Transit and Intermodal Transportation Programs).

Past topics include:

• Drug and Alcohol Testing - A Survey of Labor Management Relations
• Potential Tort Liability for Transit Agencies Arising out of the Americans with Disabilities Ac
• Impact of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 on the Transit Industry
  

Paper copies of the Legal Research Digest are kept in the Headquarters library. The call number is LAW KF 5524.S44.

Legal Research Digest is also available on the Internet: http://www.nas.edu/trb/

• click on "Cooperative Research Programs (NCHRP, TCRP)"
• click on "Web Documents" (left side, under "Publications")
• Legal Research Digest is listed at the end of the publication list.
  

CD-ROM Corner

Employment Discrimination

This CD-ROM contains the text of the 10 volume set which provides expert analysis of employment discrimination law. It follows the evolution of the law relating to employment discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, and union membership.
Besides the advantage of desktop access, this CD allows for searching and downloading of text. Navigation buttons allow for flexible search features, including advanced searching and searching multiple publications in our subscription.
Access to Employment Discrimination is available at the DOT Libraries or at your desktop (through the RIDER database system). To obtain a password for desktop access, contact Dave Jones at 366-0766.

• In the RIDER system, select "Matthew Bender databases".
• After entering your login information (your e-mail address), click on "Run Application".
• Click on the "Authority On-Demand" button.
• Click on Employment Discrimination.
• Click on the title to see a breakdown of parts, volumes and chapters.
• Function keys run along the left side.