Services for Law Faculty: Collection Development and Orders
Materials for the Library * Office Copies * Personal Copies
The law library is always happy to receive suggestions from faculty for additions to the law library and faculty library collections. Please send Jane Huston (x3-8875), Collection Development Librarian, publishers' notices, reviews, etc. of interesting titles, or call or email them with your suggestions. Publications will be evaluated for purchase according to the library's Collection Development Policy, and you will be notified of the decision. Please tell us if you would like to see an ordered book as soon as it arrives, and it will be cataloged immediately and routed to your mailbox. Any titles that are outside the scope of the law library's collections can be requested via interlibrary loan.
Please contact Rebecca Martin (x3-8879) If you have any questions about the order status of a book you have requested.
Office Copies and Special Rate Subscriptions
Due to expense and the limitations on access, as a general rule the library does not purchase copies of titles for faculty offices. We hope our liberal library circulation policies will allow you to sign out titles for as long as you require them. If the cost is reasonable, the library will consider purchasing extra library copies and subscriptions.
Faculty can obtain discounted rates for selected Bureau of National Affairs subscriptions, e.g., U.S. Law Week. The library can arrange with West Publishing Company for faculty to receive complimentary subscriptions to the National Reporter System advance sheets. Please contact Jane Huston (x3-8875) to request these services or additional information.
Personal Copies
The Acquisitions Department has found that faculty can often purchase personal copies of books themselves less expensively than ordering through the library. The Boston University Barnes & Noble Bookstore (617-236-7431) at 660 Beacon Street in Kenmore Square gives faculty a 10% discount. Titles not in stock can usually be special ordered.
Publishers also accept web and telephone orders with billing to a major credit card. Jane Huston (x3-8875) or the Reference Department (x3-3151) can give you publishers' contact information. If titles are no longer available from publishers, Jane can provide the names and telephone numbers of out of print and antiquarian book dealers.
If personal titles are hard to obtain or needed on a rush basis, the Acquisitions Department will order copies for faculty. Please contact Jane Huston (x3-8875) for additional information on ordering and reimbursement.