West-Thomson representatives Andrew Larson (left) and Anne Templeman (center) instruct attorney John Hagen.

Two of the Law Library’s public PCs are now dedicated to public WESTLAW access.  HCLL’s subscription includes case law, the annotated statutes, and the administrative codes for all 50 states, as well as federal case law, the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register.  ALR and KeyCite are also available.  All searching is free.  Users must first enter a barcode number in order to use WESTLAW.  Barcodes are issued free of charge at the Public Services Desk.  At the present time, users are allowed one hour per day of WESTLAW usage.  Printing costs 10¢ per page.

The Law Library will continue to offer Premise CD-ROM searching for federal and Minnesota case law, statutes, and regulations with access to KeyCite.

The training sessions will be conducted by a Thomson-West trainer at no charge and will be held in the Law Library’s computer training room on the 24th floor of the Courts Tower of the Hennepin County Government Center.  Prior registration is recommended since the training room is small.  Registration is available on the library’s web site at http://hclaw.co.hennepin.mn.us or by calling 612-348-3024.

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The Internal Revenue Manual (IRM) is available.  It lets you research IRS procedures for examinations, collections, and appeals. You can also search the IRM.

Actuarial Values Books are available: Aleph (publication 1457), Beth (publication 1458), and Gimel (publication 1459).

The Cumulative List of Exempt Organizations (publication 78) lets you determine whether your contributions to an organization are tax deductible. You can download the entire publication (it's very large), or you can search the database.

Income tax treaties between the U.S. and other countries are available.

Links to these IRS sources and others are available on the Law Library’s Legal Links pages.

The CCH state tax reporters are updated monthly.  Both in staff time required for filing these updates and annual subscription costs, the tax reporters are a major investment for HCLL.  Give them a try the next time you have a state tax question.

With the holidays and 2004 almost here, tax season and tax questions are beginning.  HCLL has many other resources, both electronic and print, to help with your tax research.  Check our convenient web links for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (scroll down) and the Minnesota Dept. of Revenue. We also have two very useful CD-ROM products. E-Form [click links to view more information and latest issue received] has tax forms for the federal government and for all fifty states, while Kleinrock’s Tax Library provides the internal revenue code, regulations, rulings, notices, private letter rulings, and Tax Court decisions.  Our new public access WESTLAW subscription offers another method of searching tax cases, statutes, and regulations electronically.

We continue to provide an outstanding collection of print tax resources. CCH’s Standard Federal Tax Reporter, RIA’s Federal Tax Coordinator, BNA’s Tax Management Portfolios, and West’s Merten’s Law of Federal Income Taxation are just the most visible sets.  The collection also includes many specialized titles to meet your research needs.

So, enjoy the holidays, have a happy 2004, and when your tax season begins, check the resources provided by HCLL.

We will be open during our regular hours (8:00 am to 6:00 pm) all other weekdays.  All of us at HCLL wish you a joyous and safe holiday season!