Services for Law Part-Time Faculty: Reference Services
Contact the legal information librarian on duty for research requests related to the teaching of courses at the law school: via email, using LiveChat, or call 353-3151 (ask for the reference desk).
During the academic year, the librarians are available:
| Monday - Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday |
8:30am - 8pm 8:30am - 5pm 9am - 5pm Noon - 8pm |
During the summer, the librarians are available during all hours the library is open: Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Research Guides and Portals
The library provides over 50 research guides that provide helpful tips for finding and using legal and non-legal resources. Research portals provide additional access to electronic products and may be customized for your courses. Please contact a reference librarian for assistance with these or other electronic resources.
Classroom Legal Research Instruction and Support
The librarians teach basic and advanced legal research. We enjoy teaching and we would be happy to teach a research component in conjunction with any law school course or seminar. Our research instruction integrates print and electronic research and teaches students the most efficient resources to select for their research topics.
Please contact Stefanie Weigmann (sweig@bu.edu, 358-4997) to request a research session for your class.
Librarians also offer research appointments for students writing seminar papers.
Materials for use in the classroom may be retrieved on the day of the class. Materials used for class should be returned before the library closes on the day of the class.
CALI Lessons
As a member of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, the library offers the complete CALI library of research exercises to complement classroom instruction. Please contact the reference desk (lawlib@bu.edu, 353-3151) for the faculty and student authorization codes needed to register and access materials from the CALI website.