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Cataloging Wayfinding for Beginners and Learners
(2026-04-15) Liss, Jennifer A.
Library workers find themselves cataloging for all sorts of reasons. For some, cataloging is simply one aspect of their position, while others chose to specialize in cataloging. Increasingly though, library leaders are reassigning cataloging responsibilities in response to staffing reductions, and the learning curve is steep. This webinar provides resources for anyone getting started (or restarted) with cataloging. A foundational premise for this webinar is the notion that “good enough” IS good enough and that levels of cataloging service may be tiered, granting busy library workers autonomy over finding what’s “good enough” to serve their library’s patrons. After completing this webinar, participants will be able to: • Identify standards, best practices, and resources to aid in the creation of accurate and consistent bibliographic records. • Utilize professional networks and communication fora to find answers to difficult cataloging situations. • Articulate a tiered cataloging service that satisfies patrons’ needs and suits the resources available at your institution.
Reflective & Integrative Learning
(2026) BrckaLorenz, Allison
This item set explores how important it is to instructional staff that students at their institutions engage in effective educational practices such as connecting their learning to societal problems, examining the strengths and weaknesses of their own views, and including diverse perspectives in course discussions or assignments.
Learning Strategies
(2026) Christiaens, Roman; BrckaLorenz, Allison
The Learning Strategies content area explores the degree to which students are actively engaging with and analyzing course material rather than approaching learning as absorption. Questions explore instructional staff requiring students to identify key information from reading assignments, review notes after class, and summarize what has been learned from class or from class materials. This document provides basic findings for the Learning Strategies item set.
Torts: Cases, Problems, and Policy Choices
(IU Libraries, 2026-05-13) Lubin, Asaf
This casebook offers a sustained examination of private law remedies for harms arising from both intentional and accidental conduct. It explores the legal institutions, doctrines, and judgments through which courts and legislatures allocate responsibility when one person’s conduct injures another. At its center is a basic but enduring question: when, and on what terms, may one private citizen compel another to provide monetary redress? Tort litigation turns on a complex interplay of doctrine, theory, and policy: the elements a plaintiff must prove, the principles that justify liability, and the considerations that shape the scope of recovery. This casebook examines each of these dimensions through the cases, controversies, and recurring problems that have defined the law of torts. Alongside foundational decisions, readers will encounter the occasional anachronism, doctrinal oddity, and legal relic. Some rules have fallen out of favor. Others are making a comeback. The quirkiness of tort law is not confined to doctrine. Its facts often form a parade of the improbable: shoppers slipping on rogue pizza slices in a Target aisle, municipalities sued over monkeys escaping from understaffed zoos, and countless other accidents in which ordinary life turns unexpectedly litigious. Yet beneath these eccentric settings lie some of the law’s most serious questions: how to determine causation, when to recognize a duty of care, and how far responsibility should extend in everyday life.
Interpreting Anti-Boycott Laws in the Shadow of the First Amendment
(University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2026) Tomain, Joseph A.
Thirty-eight states have enacted “anti-BDS” laws. These laws require people or entities doing business with the state to certify that they do not participate in the Boycott Divestment Sanction movement against Israel. Typically, these laws define boycott as a “refusal to deal, terminating business, or other actions” that limit commercial relations with Israel or Israeli entities. It is highly contested in the courts and commentary whether these anti-boycott laws violate the First Amendment. Assuming arguendo that the “refusal to deal” and “terminating business” clauses do not implicate the First Amendment, that leaves the residual clause. At least one court and one commentator find that the “or other actions” clause does not implicate the First Amendment by applying the canon of statutory construction, ejusdem generis. Ejusdem generis looks to the specifically listed items that precede the residual clause to define and often limit its scope. This semantic canon of statutory construction is centuries old and still actively used today. In the October 2023 Term, the Supreme Court discussed ejusdem generis in four cases. But the First Amendment issue raised by these anti-boycott statutes cannot be avoided simply by invoking ejusdem generis because semantic canons cannot be used to contradict a statute. A statute-by-statute analysis is required to determine whether ejusdem generis can be properly applied to the residual clause of these laws. To avoid the intractable debate about the use of legislative history, I reach this conclusion by focusing on anti-BDS laws that include enacted legislative findings, statutory definitions of “boycott,” and clauses that expressly exclude speech from their coverage. This analysis shows that applying ejusdem generis to some anti-BDS laws may contradict the statutes whereas applying it to other statutes may honor them. In all instances, however, the context of each statute must be individually analyzed to determine the propriety of applying ejusdem generis. In addition to analyzing statutory text, Supreme Court cases applying ejusdem generis are analyzed, including four cases from the October 2023 Term Moreover, these anti-BDS laws are being used as a template for anti-boycott laws in other contexts, such as fossil fuels, firearms, and economic boycotts generally. Thus, this Article’s relevance transcends the BDS context and raises important and timely questions regarding the intersection of statutory interpretation and the First Amendment.

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