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Additional Services for Law Faculty Research Assistants: Searches and Recalls

Law Searches * Other BU Libraries Searches * Recalls

If you are unable to locate materials on the shelf at the Law Library, please fill-out a Request Material form.

Filling out the Requestor Information Section of the Material Request Form

Determine who will have physical possesion of the material, you or the faculty member.

  • If you will have possession: Put your name as the requestor. Change the status to Law Research Assistant. All notifications on the status of the search request will go to you, and when the material is found it will be held for you.
  • If the faculty member will have possession: Put your name as the requestor. Change the status to Law Research Assistant. Put the faculty member's name in the "On Arrival Deliver to:" box. You will receive a confirmation that the material has been requested, but all further notifications on the status of the search will go to the faculty member, and when the material is found it will delivered directly to the faculty member.

Searches for other BU libraries' materials

Searches must be placed at the library which owns the material. Materials which have been located are held at that library's circulation desk, and may only be checked out to the patron who requested the search. Please use your name when placing searches at other BU libraries.

Recalls from All libraries

To avoid placing a recall for something your professor already has or is checked out to another law faculty member; please fill out a material request form for materials that have a due date at ANY campus library. When filling out the request form be sure to include the faculty member's name and put in your status as an RA. Alternately, you can see Terri Geiger, room 206.

Because circulation records are confidential only library staff can view who the material is checked out to.

  • If the item is checked out to the professor you are working for, we will inform you.
  • If the item is checked out to another law faculty member, library staff will inform both the faculty member you are working for and the faculty member who has the material.
  • If a LAW item is checked out to a non-law faculty member, we will place the recall.
  • If a non-law item is checked out to a non-law faculty member, will notify you that a recall should be placed at the owning library. (Please use your name when placing recalls at other BU libraries. Recalls placed in the faculty member's name would require pick up by the faculty member.)