Volume 4, Issue 5

Library News

Realignment of Library Services

The Library has been joined with Docket Services and Multi-Media Services to form a new branch of Information Services entitled Library / Dockets & Media Management. Dorothy Y. Beard is the Chief of this new branch.

Coast Guard Law Library Remains with DOT – At Least for Now

Although the Coast Guard is now a part of the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the law library at the Transpoint Building has continued to be operated by the DOT Library. The DOT Library has also continued to provide information services to the staff of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), also a part of DHS.

Staffing

Phyllis A. Bell is Acting Library Director.

Anne Foley has resigned from her position of Coast

Guard law librarian. Anne joined the DOT Library staff in June 2002. Tom Haggerty, a DOT Headquarters Library reference librarian with an extensive maritime library background, has been detailed to the Coast Guard Law Library.

Getting (More) Organized

Thanks to the DOT Library’s donation of its print collection of West’s The Government Contractor, Briefing Papers, and the Nash & Cibinic Report, the Coast Guard Law Library is reorganizing its collection in order to accommodate these materials on its shelves. So for a brief while some of the treatises and law books will be uprooted from their proper places – but please ask for assistance if you cannot find something!

Selected Law Library Acquisitions

Headquarters:

• Agency-Partnership in a Nutshell / by Roscoe T. Steffen [KF1345 .Z9 S8 1977]
• An Introduction to Statutory Interpretation and the Legislative Process / by Abner J. Mikva and Eric Lane [KF425 .M55 1997]
• The Legal Writing Handbook: Research, Analysis, and Writing / by Laurel Currie Oates, Anne Enquist, and Kelly Kunsch [KF250 .O18 1998]
• Local Government Law in a Nutshell / by David J. McCarthy, Jr. [KF5300 .Z9 M3 1995]
• Oil and Gas Law in a Nutshell /by John S. Lowe [KF1850 .L68 2003]
• Using Legislative History in American Statutory Interpretation /by Christian E. Mammen [KF425 .M36 2002]

Coast Guard:

• Index and Legislative History of the Uniform Code of Military Justice /U.S. GPO (2000 reprint by William S. Hein & Co.)
• Merchant Vessels of the U.S., 1943-1965 [HE565 .U5A27]
  

CD ROM Corner

CD ROM Corner

West Group Government Contracts Newsletter Library

The DOT Library has recently purchased popular titles in Employment and Government Contracts law. These titles were previously held in paper format and are now available full text on CD-ROM.

Government Contractor

This publication provides weekly analysis and news about legislative and regulatory developments and decisions. Coverage begins in 1987 and continues to the present.

Briefing Papers

Beginning in 1992 and continuing to the present, this monthly newsletter focuses on a single topic in procurement law and provides detailed discussion of the issues pertaining to the topic.

Nash & Cibinic Report

This monthly newsletter, covering the years 1987 to the present, discusses both current and controversial subjects in the area of government contracting.

Research and Reference Corner

New Online Subscriptions

The DOT Law Library announces the following new online products from Commerce Clearing House (CCH):

Labor Law Journal

This Quarterly journal reviews the complex relationship of law, labor, management, and the economy. Included in the journal are special staff features, such as a “Who’s What in Labor”, as well as highlights of important decisions, regulations, and news in labor -management relations, equal employment opportunity, job safety and health, and employment training.

Employment Practices Guide

This guide offers complete coverage of both state and federal anti-discrimination laws and regulations. The database also includes the full text of employment discrimination and related decisions and rulings, explanations and analysis, EEOC-required forms, and the bi-monthly newsletter, Employment Practices.

Accommodating Disabilities Business Management Guide

This monthly newsletter contains current information on how to address issues raised by the Americans with Disabilities Act. You will find current information and helpful tips on how to address most accessibility and accommodation requirements, as well as interviews with leading experts and up-to-the-minute news on key issues.

Cost Accounting Standards Guide

When negotiating contracts, federal government agencies rely heavily on cost accounting data to determine acceptable pricing from contractors and subcontractors. This guide provides the full text of Cost Accounting Standards Board (CASB) regulations, opinions and interpretations issued by the CASB, analyses and explanations from CCH experts, and more.

Aviation Law Reporter

This comprehensive resource enables you to keep current on air law’s rapidly changing regulatory and liability landscape. It also provides complete coverage of the federal regulation of civil aviation – everything from instructor certification to flight rules to new drug testing requirements, plus state aviation laws, international agreements, and current reporting of relevant federal and state cases.

CQ Weekly

This weekly from Congressional Quarterly provides in-depth analysis of upcoming key issues plus a comprehensive wrap-up of virtually all Capitol Hill activity from the previous week. This database is fully searchable back to 1983.

These online subscriptions are available through the Library’s homepage at your desktop:

Go to http://dotlibrary.dot.gov
Click on RIDER databases
Click on Research and Reference Databases

To obtain a password, contact the Library at 6-0746.