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Written by Megan Good, Archives Intern. Wharton Professor George W. Taylor was not only a notable teacher and scholar, but also a significant figure in the labor relations industry. The “Father of American Arbitration” graduated from Penn with his B.A. in 1921 and Ph.D. in 1929, both in Economics. After graduation, Taylor became an assistant professor in the Wharton School in 1930, where he taught continuously until 1964, when the Wharton School named an endowed chair after him. Taylor received national acclaim after successfully mediating a strike at Apex Hosiery in Philadelphia in 1932. He was appointed impartial chairman of the collective bargaining processes between the American Federation of Hosiery Workers and the Full Fashioned Hosiery Manufacturers of America, a position which he held for 10 years. Taylor was also to become an impartial chairman for labor arbitration between the United Auto Workers and General Motors, the official arbitrator of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and crafted New York’s Taylor Law, which established collective bargaining rights for state workers. He also worked in public service under Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. Taylor was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Johnson in 1963. The Archives recently processed a collection of Taylor’s papers that he collected relating to the hosiery industry from 1928 to 1972. The finding aid for the George W. Taylor Papers is located here. The collection includes negotiations, reports, publications, and decisions that impacted the hosiery industry, bearing Taylor’s influence. If you are interested in learning more about this collection, please stop by the Archives or the Biddle reference desk at 215-898-6161.
Many of us are familiar with government search engines such as GPO Access, launched in June 1994, where the Government Printing Office provided electronic access to collections of official federal documents produced by the three branches of government. GPO Access' successor, the Federal Digital System (FDsys), became the official government information web site on December 20, 2010. In contrast to GPO Access and FDsys, however, few researchers seem aware of GPO's MetaLib, an invaluable search tool released around October 2010, several months before FDsys. As the Metalib web page indicates, "MetaLib is a library portal providing end users with an easy and personalized interface which can search simultaneously for information in a variety of electronic resources, such as catalogs, reference databases, digital repositories or subject-based Web gateways. These information resources are collectively referred to as databases. Once you have found the information in which you are interested, MetaLib provides you with the tools to save it for future reference in your E-shelf, save it to disk or send it by email. You can search multiple databases in parallel using the Basic, Advanced and Expert modules." Curious about MetaLib, I decided to "test-drive" the portal, by running a recent student research question, which focused on determining what steps or measures the Obama administration has taken on carbon dioxide regulation, following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Massachusetts v. E.P.A. The first illustration is my basic search query, followed by a second illustration showing 10 of 58 records retrieved My third illustration shows record 7 in "table view" with an "external" link to the publication itself. 
  I have only highlighted the power of MetaLib. Why not give MetaLib a try during your next literature search for government documents and more.
 Written by Jessica Lydon, Archives Intern.
A leading figure in the history of Penn Law, the Philadelphia legal community, and the law profession at large, A. Leo Levin served as the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law for forty years, eventually receiving Emeritus status in 1989. He also graduated from Penn Law School in 1942. The Biddle Law Library Archives recently processed the A. Leo Levin Papers, 1935-1996. This collection documents the activities of Levin inside and outside the classroom. The Levin Papers include materials ranging from teaching outlines and notes on the topics of evidence and civil procedure to Levin’s service as coordinator of the Pound Conference and as President of the Jewish Publication Society. As an active participant in professional organizations and societies, Levin was a frequent speaker. Invitations, correspondence and speech notes recount Levin's seminar presentations, workshops and conference lectures. Further rounding out the collection are notes and drafts of publications and articles Levin wrote, as well as correspondence, memoranda and meeting minutes of the numerous advisory committees and judicial commissions on which Professor Levin served. The finding aid for the A. Leo Levin Papers is located here. If you are interested in learning more about this collection, contact the Archives at biddlearchives@law.upenn.edu .
Written by Zev Fagin, Special Collections Assistant. A leading scholar of United States and comparative insolvency law, Samuel L. Bufford currently teaches as a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at The Dickinson School of Law at Penn State. He recently retired from the bench, after serving for twenty-five years as a United States Bankruptcy Judge in the Central District of California. The Biddle Law Library Archives has processed Bufford's papers and the collection is now open for research. According Bufford's Penn State website, "Judge Bufford has authored a treatise on international bankruptcy law [ United States International Insolvency Law: 2009-2009, Oxford University Press, 2009] and a bench book for U.S. judges. He serves on the editorial advisory boards for the International Insolvency Review and West Annual Review of International Insolvency... and is past chair of the National Conference of Federal Trial Judges of the American Bar Association ." The Samuel L. Bufford Papers, 1980-2010, includes judicial calendars and summarized rulings from Bufford's tenure as a bankruptcy judge, correspondences and related materials from his involvement in the annual National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, articles and correspondence from his involvement in the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, and papers from his time abroad teaching seminars, on insolvency, sponsored by foreign judicial departments, USAID, and the International Insolvency Institute. The Archives considers the Bufford papers to be an important part of the National Bankruptcy Archives (NBA), a national repository of materials relating to the history of debtor-creditor relations, bankruptcy, and the reorganization of debt. These papers chronicle the activities of a judge who has greatly influenced the field of bankruptcy law. The finding aid for the Samuel L. Bufford papers is located here. If you are interested in learning more about this collection, contact biddlearchives@law.upenn.edu or stop by the Archives.
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