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3 De Novo: Newsl. L. Libr. La. 1 (2004-2005)

handle is hein.journals/denov3 and id is 1 raw text is: JUSTICE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR SPEAKS AT LOUISIANA SUPREME COURT GRAND OPENING United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will speak at the official grand opening of the Louisiana Su- preme Court on October 2, 2004. DeNovo takes this oppor- tunity to provide a selected re- view of the material related to Justice O'Connor which the Law Library owns, as well as a brief introduction to Justice O'Connor's remarkable life. by Georgia Chadwick I remember vividly the excite- ment around the country when it was reported that President Reagan was considering a woman appellate court judge from Arizona to fill Justice Pot- ter Stewart's seat on the United States Supreme Court. The facts reported were that Judge O'Connor was raised on her family's cattle ranch, attended Stanford University and then Stanford's law school and had finished third in her class, which had also included Justice Wil- liam Rehnquist. She and her husband John J. O'Connor Ill, also a Stanford law school gradu- ate from the class below hers, were the parents of three sons. Judge O'Connor was known for her devotion to her family, her hard work as a lawyer, state leg- islator, and judge, and for her significant contribution to civic causes. Before her nomination, the O'Connors led a comfortable but busy family life in the pros- perous Paradise Valley neighbor- hood in Maricopa County out- side Phoenix, Arizona. On July 7, 1981, President Reagan announced his inten- tion to nominate Sandra Day O'Connor to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court. The President submitted the nomination to the Senate on August 19, 1981, and on Sep- tember 9, 10, and 11, hearings were held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On September 15 the Committee concluded by a vote of 17 yeas and one vote of present to send the O'Connor nomina- tion to the full Senate for con- firmation. The nomination was confirmed by a vote of 99-0 on September 21, although one senator was absent and was not able to vote. Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the 102nd Justice and the first woman to serve on the United State Supreme Court on September 25, 1981. Moving Days, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Relocating By Janice Shull Flashback: May 19, 2004 - the months of preparation are over and the day of reckoning has arrived. The question looms- will the books fit in our new space? We have mapped each shelf on Loyola Avenue to its new location in the Royal Street courthouse. We have measured each shelf with lengths of string to match the odd sizes of shelves in Royal Street and the first book on each shelf bears a color-coded number to send it to its new shelf destination. Our experienced team of movers from the Quality Group arrives and divides into four teams of three people to begin loading large gondolas. They load the books backwards from bottom to top in apparently random sections. We hold our collective breath hoping that the old, unreliable elevator in the Loyola Avenue building won't break down (it does not). Once the books arrive at Royal Street more crews unload the gondolas into each area of the library. Although the obvious disarray of the gon- dolas gives the appearance of a jigsaw puzzle, the color- coding and numbering scheme works well to guide the shelvers, and they make very few shelving errors. All of the books do fit with a small amount of growth room allowed. The entire process takes only three and a half days! continued on back page IN THIS ISSUE Electing the President A Guide to Dictionaries Bicentennial ofthe French Civil Code Exhibit A Documentary History of the Legal Aspects of Abortion in the United States De Novo Restaurant Review: La Boucherie Law Library of Louisiana Hours Monday-Thursday 9am-9pm Friday and Saturday 9am-5pm Telephone (504) 310-2400 Fax (504) 310-2499 Toll free (Louisiana only) 800-820-3038 www.lasc.org At your service: Carol Billings - Director Catherine Lemann - Associate Dir. Georgia Chadwick - Librarian Miriam Childs - Librarian Marie Erickson - Librarian Janice Shull - Librarian Gregory Duhe - Library Associate Ruth Mahoney - Library Associate Jason Kruppa- Library Associate 3 4 5 5 6

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