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.
Use the faculty member's name to have materials delivered directly to the faculty.
Use your name and e-mail in the delivery section to be notified about search results. If you wish to have materials held for you at the Pappas circulation desk, please do NOT include the Faculty member's name in the request.
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 determine 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 can only be picked up by the faculty member.)