Additional Services for Law Faculty: Document Delivery
Routings * Photocopies * Books * Electronic Documents * Interlibrary Loan
On request, the library will route periodicals, looseleaf highlights, and newsletters to faculty members as soon as the library has processed them. Routed materials generally come from the non-circulating collection and are checked out for 2 week use. Materials routed to more than one faculty member are especially sensitive to delays.
Please contact Marlene Alderman, alderman@bu.edu (x-8870) or Terri Geiger, tgeiger@bu.edu (x-8881) to be placed on the routing lists. Selected titles may also be available in the Faculty Library and electronically on Westlaw, Lexis or other electronic databases.
Photocopies from Law Library Collections
Faculty may request a copy of recent articles from the library by completing the Faculty Photocopy Request Form in each issue of the Current Law Reviews and the University of Washington Current Index to Legal Periodicals. Leave the form in the library mailbox and the copies should be delivered to your mailbox within 72 hours. Current Index to Legal Periodicals is also available online. When the online issue is published you will receive an email.
Please call Amity Dubell (x8879), or the reference staff (x3151) for rush photocopy requests.
Extensive copying and printing of other library materials and microforms should be done by faculty research assistants or secretaries. Copy cards for your staff are available at the Pappas circulation desk. The library can assist faculty with limited photocopying of other materials. Our guideline is five requests per week. Please give your requests to Amity Dubell, lawcirc@bu.edu.
Kinkos/FedEx does multiple copying for course materials. The library can provide faculty with one clean copy of articles, cases, etc., to send to the copy center. Faculty members are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions from copyright holders.
Photocopies from Other B.U. Library Collections
Each library has a separate copy card system, so the law school faculty copy cards will not work in the copy machines at other BU Libraries. For the convenience of law faculty, the law library has established Law School faculty copy accounts in the Mugar Library photocopy and microforms departments.
Faculty may request occasional copies of Mugar materials through a note to Amity Dubell, lawcirc@bu.edu. Research assistants should be sent to Mugar for more extensive photocopying projects. The research assistant must locate and take the items to be copied to the Photocopy Department on the first floor or the Microforms Department desk in the basement of Mugar Library, and then complete a copy request form. Copies made by Mugar Library can usually be picked up the next business day.
Please give your research assistant the account number so the copying may be charged to the law school. The account numbers for this fiscal year can be obtained by contacting Amity Dubell (x8879), Terri Geiger (x8881), or Marlene Alderman(x8870). Receipts for copies made should be sent to Terri Geiger.
Deliveries of Books from Law and other B.U. Libraries
Faculty may request newly received books from the law library by completing the Recent Acquisition Request Form in each issue of the Pappas Law Library Recent Acquisitions. Leave the form in the library mailbox and the books should be delivered to your mailbox within 48 hours. Recent Acquisitions is also available online. When the online issue is published you will receive an email.
Amity Dubell will also retrieve and deliver books from the Pappas, Annex, Mugar, and Theology collections to faculty mailboxes. Please email your request to lawcirc@bu.edu or leave your request in the library mailbox. You should receive the book within 48 hours. Materials from the Science and Engineering, Educational Resources, and the Pardee Management Libraries are retrieved once a week. For rush requests please call Amity (x8879), or the reference staff (x3151).
Materials from the B.U. Medical Library are requested through the interlibrary loan system.
Electronic Documents
Some requests can be filled electronically. When available, library staff can provide links to reliable sources or send PDFs of documents to you. If you would prefer to receive an electronic document, please indicate this when placing your request.
Interlibrary Loan
Amity Dubell coordinates interlibrary loan for law faculty and can obtain books, photocopies and microcopies from other libraries. Please contact Amity (lawcirc@bu.edu, x8879) or send a note with complete citations.