Faculty Services
Library Instruction
At your request, the law librarians can provide classroom presentations on research tools and techniques, tours, or customized research guides for your students.
1L Legal Research Instruction
- Basic introduction to finding case law, statutes, and secondary sources
- Instruction in Westlaw and Lexis+
Upper-Level Courses
Legal research instruction may be especially useful for a seminar class where students have a substantial writing requirement or if the course covers topics where the legal research is especially complex (e.g., legislative history, administrative law, Indian law).
Course Reserves
- Instructors can put items (either personal or library materials) on reserve for check out duration of generally 2 hours, in library use only optional.
- Review copyright basics (Chester Fritz Library) when considering materials for instruction.
- Contact Jane Oakland to add reserves material.
Research and Publishing
Faculty Research
Types of research support include:
- General information retrieval
- Compiling data sets
- Compiling/locating legislative histories
- Creating bibliographies
- Completing research projects
- Legal research on a specific topic/area of law
Though we try to be as accommodating as possible we do not provide: data mining, Bluebooking of articles, creating footnotes, creating book indexes, or administrative tasks that should be performed by faculty support personnel.
Contact Jonathan Voigt with any questions regarding faculty publishing and research.
Student Research Assistants
We can provide research training to faculty research assistants, to include:
- Introduction to the library catalog and online resources relevant for the project
- Tips for improving legal research efficiency
- Fundamentals for research projects
Current Awareness
Current awareness services allow faculty to easily keep up with scholarship in areas of interest. Jonathan Voigt can assist with managing alerts and subscriptions and provide more information on the types of current awareness services that are available in your area of interest.
Publishing
Contact Jonathan Voigt for assistance with:
- Article submission using Scholastica
- SSRN account management
- Perma.cc account
Collection Development
Collection development involves maintaining and improving our holdings. It encompasses both the acquisition of new treatises, journals, databases, and the retirement of outdated or damaged materials. Our collection reflects the provisions of Chapter 6, Library and Information Resources in the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools. For more collections details, see our Collection Development Policy.
We are also able to assist you in purchasing items with professional development funds; note that law school policy requires that books purchased with professional development funds remain the property of the Law Library.
To recommend new books or databases, or to purchase an item using your professional development funds, contact Jonathan Voigt.