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April 27, 2006
European Union Research
The clock ticked 9:00...9:15, 9:20, the room was filling up with an audience on the edge of their seats. Where was our estemeed presenter, Susan Lyons? An NJLA representative stopped in the room. Any sightings of Susan? 9:25, the NJLA rep stopped again: they've heard something! Susan Lyons from the Poconos had just exited the Garden State Parkway; she was on Route 36 traveling east, she might even be in the building! 9:30--twenty minutes left in the session--and there she appears, like an apparition, ready to make the world safe for European Union research.
Pretty heady stuff for Internet research. But truth be told, the EU is a major economic and political force in global affairs. Finding information is indeed important. So remember this, readers of the NJLA blog: Britain joined the European Economic Community in 1973. Before 1973, documents from the EU were not written in English; after England became a member, English became an official language of the organization and papers were written in English (according to Susan, there are about 16 official languages of the EU).
EU documents from 1997 are availble on the Internet. And the EU's website is a great place for curious people to study EU activity through exciting reads like "European Code of Sustainable and Responsible Fisheries Practices" (http://bookshop.eu.int/eGetRecords). And, boys and girls, there is a page for you--not as obvious as www.kids.gov, Uncle Sam's effort to involve children in government--but it's there...under the "Europe is fun!" link.
Also, researchers can get access to a currency convertor (see how far the euro is whipping the dollar), read policy papers and learn about country statistics.
Susan has created a pathfinder for EU materials:
http://law-library.rutgers.edu/resources/eulaw.php
Happy researching! --Valerie Haeder
Posted by Valerie Haeder at April 27, 2006 10:28 AM
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