Additional Services for Law Faculty
All full time faculty members are assigned a reference liaison, who provides specialized reference, research, and instruction. The circulation department's faculty liaison maintains the faculty library and provides document delivery and other circulation services to all faculty.
Reference services for faculty include research, online database searching, compiling legislative histories, preparing bibliographies and research guides, and locating documents. The reference librarians also provide research instruction to faculty research assistants who are assigned the longer research projects.
The library maintains a core collection of materials in the reserve area behind the Pappas circulation desk. At the beginning of each semester the library automatically adds at least one copy of all materials listed on the booklists for J.D. and LL.M. students. Law faculty teaching courses may add any additional items they feel would be of interest to students in their classes.
The Registrar's Office collects exams each semester and sends those that are approved for publication to the library. Bound volumes of exams from Fall 1967 - Spring 2005 are available in the Pappas reference collection. Starting with the exams published in Fall 2004, library staff scan these documents to provide online access to law students and faculty.
The library produces and subscribes to several alerting services to inform faculty of new publications and library resources. Copies of the alerting services are distributed to all permanent and visiting faculty through the circulation department.
Each summer the library compiles the Faculty Bibliography, an updated bibliography of publications of full time law faculty . Throughout the year the library adds updated information to the Faculty Publications web pages.
The law library is always happy to receive suggestions from faculty for additions to the law library and faculty library collections. The Acquisitions Librarian can also assist faculty with the purchase of personal copies of titles that are no longer available from publishers.