Library Services & Information
For Adjunct Faculty, Legal Writing & Moot Court Instructors
Maps/Directions, Parking, Accessibility
- Placing Materials on Reserve
Several weeks before the beginning of each term, you will be asked to provide a list of the course materials that you would like to have placed on reserve. You may add materials to reserve at any time during the semester. The Law Library will try to obtain any materials not owned by the library through purchase or interlibrary loan. We will also include materials you own on reserve. If you would like to include photocopies, please provide the number of copies needed and secure copyright permission as necessary. Please send your list and materials 2 weeks before the reserve materials are needed to Daniel Matthews in the circulation department. For further information, please contact him at 625-5262 or email: matth036@umn.edu. Each term, the Law Library compiles an online course reserves list of your reserve materials. Consult the document, 10 Things to Know About Electronic Reserve for more information about placing materials, including sample exams, on electronic reserve. We will also make selected materials electronically available to students via the library home page. Due to space constraints and copyright issues, materials will be kept on reserve for the current term only and they will be returned to you at the end of the academic year.
- Exam File
If you are currently teaching a course, you will receive a list of the old exams that you have previously given to the Law Library for this course. You will be asked to review these old exams and to sign the attached release forms for any of the exams that you would like to make available during the term. If you wish to provide us with an exam that we do not already have, please sign a release form and provide us with a paper copy of the exam. Model answers will also be made available when you provide them to the library. When we receive your signed releases, we will immediately make your exams/answers available to students via the library home page and/or in hard copy at the reserve desk (as you specify on the release forms). The Law Library maintains an online list of the exams and model answers currently available. Please email Daniel Matthews at matth036@umn.edu or call 625-5262 for assistance with exams.
- Research Instruction - Presentations/Tours/Guides
At your request, the reference librarians can provide classroom presentations on research tools and techniques, tours, or customized research guides for your students. Please contact Suzanne Thorpe.
- CALI Exercises
As a member of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, the law school offers a complete set of the CALI exercises to supplement your classroom instruction. Further information on the exercises is available at the CALI Web site. Contact the library Reference Office (612-625-4309) for the faculty authorization code needed to register and access CALI materials from the CALI Web site.
- Classroom & Instructional Technology see also Educational Technolology, below
Technology support within the Law School is organized under four main divisions:
Law Information and Technology Services (LITS): responsible of law school network and computer hardware and software issues, including email and listserv issues.
Contact Information for LITS
Web Site: https://inside.law.umn.edu/technology
Help Desk: https://intranet.law.umn.edu/helpdesk/index.php
Phone: (612) 625-0740
Educational Technology: assists faculty with all aspects of classroom and instructional technology issues, including equipment, training, course web sites (including TWEN), course listservs. Education Technology staff can work with faculty to create their own password-free web sites. For further information about setting up a course web site, please contact Mike Hannon, Associate Director for Library and Educational Technology at 625-0173 or mhannon@umn.edu.
Creating Course Web Sites, e.g. TWEN
Many law school faculty members use The West Education Network (TWEN) to create web sites for their courses. LexisNexis also offers a similar electronic courseware product, LexisNexis Web Courses. Additional course web site options (Moodle & Web Vista) are available from the University of Minnesota. Contact Law School Web Services for information on law school templates for use with Moodle.
Contact Information for Education Technology
Web Site: https://inside.law.umn.edu/technology
Room & Technology Equipment Information and Reservations: https://inside.law.umn.edu/rooms/index.html
Phone: (612) 625-6385
Email: LawEdTec@umn.edu
Web Services: manages the law school web site, assists web page content managers within the law school in maintaining their web pages, manages the law school intranet and maintains selected law school email distribution lists.
Contact Information for Web Services
Web Site: https://inside.law.umn.edu/web
Email: law-webmaster@umn.edu
Law Student Computer Services: manages the law student laptop program including the laptop center.
Contact Information for Law Student Computer Services
Lap Top Center location: Library Suite 260
Web Site: https://inside.law.umn.edu/lscs
Phone: 612-624-8702
Email: lscs@umn.edu
- Library Catalogs
If you would like to search for books, journals, and other resources that are available on campus, please consult MNCAT. If you do not find what you need on campus, searching WorldCat or another local law library may be helpful.
- Periodical Indexes
If you would like to find articles published in legal periodicals, please consult LegalTrac, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, or Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals. These electronic indexes cover articles published 1980 to date. To find articles published before 1980 use the Index to Legal Periodicals Retro which covers articles published between 1908 and 1981 or the Index to Legal Periodical Literature 1786-1922. Additional electronic indexes to journals, magazines, newspapers, dissertations and theses can be accessed from the web at the University Libraries Indexes & Databases web page.
- Borrowing Privileges
For questions about borrowing, please contact the Circulation Desk at 625-4300 or lawcirc@umn.edu. The University Libraries offer you more limited loan periods. If you borrow materials from other campus libraries, please be aware of the due dates on these materials. You may receive a bill for materials that are overdue or are not returned. Failure to respond can result in loss of your borrowing privileges.
- Library Purchase Recommendations
If you would like to recommend materials for the Law Library to acquire and add to the collection, contact Connie Lenz, Associate Director for Collection Development at 625-4301 or lenzx009@umn.edu.
- Collection Overview
The library is nationally recognized for its outstanding collections consisting of more than one million volumes. These collections support in-depth scholarly research in most fields of Anglo-American law and include extensive sections devoted to foreign (especially Western European), comparative, and international law (particularly in the areas of international trade and human rights). If you have any questions regarding our collections or would like to suggest that we acquire a specific book or periodical, please contact Connie Lenz, Associate Director for Collection Development at 625-4301 or lenzx009@umn.edu. The Law Library's rare book collection is one of the finest in the country. Questions regarding our rare book collection may be directed to Katherine Hedin, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections at 625-7323 or k-hedi@umn.edu. With some exceptions, (e.g., periodicals), most collections are arranged according to the following Library of Congress classification scheme.
A GENERAL WORKS
B PHILOSOPHY. PSYCHOLOGY. RELIGION
C AUXILIARY SCIENCES OF HISTORY
D HISTORY: GENERAL AND OLD WORLD
E HISTORY: AMERICA
F HISTORY: AMERICA
G GEOGRAPHY. ANTHROPOLOGY. RECREATION
H SOCIAL SCIENCES
J POLITICAL SCIENCE
K LAW |
L EDUCATION
M MUSIC AND BOOKS ON MUSIC
N FINE ARTS
P LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Q SCIENCE
R MEDICINE
S AGRICULTURE
T TECHNOLOGY
U MILITARY SCIENCE
V NAVAL SCIENCE |
| Z BIBLIOGRAPHY. LIBRARY SCIENCE. INFORMATION RESOURCES (GENERAL) |
Floor location guides to these classes are available throughout the library. Class K for law is subdivided by jurisdiction. U.S. federal law is found in subclass KF; U.S. state law is found in KFA-KFZ (e.g., KFM for Minnesota). Each topic within a jurisdiction is represented by a number. Some of the more common categories of federal law and their corresponding classification numbers are posted throughout the library. For more specific subjects or particular titles, check MNCAT or ask a reference librarian for assistance. A guide to frequently requested materials is available to assist you in finding library materials. Below are descriptions of the collections on each floor.
- Collection Locations
- First Floor Collections
The first floor houses current statutes from all U.S. jurisdictions, federal and selected state regulations. It also contains collections of looseleaf services and treatises covering American law, periodicals, and microform materials.
- Second Floor Collections
The second floor houses collections of state and federal government documents, treatises covering philosophy, religion, history, and social science topics, and case digests and reporters.
- Third Floor Collections
The third floor houses non-current state and federal statutes, U.N. documents, treaties, works on international and comparative law, human rights, and the law of the United Kingdom, Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies.
- Fourth Floor Collections
The fourth floor houses U.N. documents, primary and secondary works on the law of foreign jurisdictions not found on the third floor and treatises covering education, science, medicine, and technology, and duplicate case digests and reporters and periodicals.
- Rare Book Collection
The Law Library's rare book collection is located in the Riesenfeld Rare Book Center on the subplaza of the new addition. It contains several thousand volumes of early English and American statutes, reports, and treatises. For assistance in using the rare books collection, please contact Katherine Hedin, Rare Books and Special Collections Curator, (k-hedi@umn.edu, 625-7323).
- Faculty Archive
The Law Library maintains a collection of faculty writings located in the Riesenfeld Rare Books Center. Recent faculty publications are displayed in the main lobby of the Law School. You are encouraged to donate copies of your publications for cataloging and preservation by the library. Please contact Connie Lenz (lenzx009@umn.edu, 625-4301) for more information on donating items for the display cases and the faculty archive.
- Electronic Resources Collection
The Law Library collection of electronic resources includes a number of abstracting and indexing services as well as full text databases.
- Basement Storage Collection
The storage area in the basement houses older treatises, superseded volumes of looseleaf services, federal court briefs, and materials from India and Pakistan. Please contact the ASAP staff (x-asap@umn.edu, 625-9534) to have any materials housed in the basement retrieved for you.
- Donations
The Law Library welcomes donations from faculty members. If you wish to donate materials, please contact the ASAP staff (x-asap@umn.edu, 625-9534) to arrange for pick up. We will supply a letter of acknowledgment for donated materials.
- Library Purchase Requests
If you would like to recommend materials for the Law Library to acquire and add to the collection, contact Connie Lenz, Associate Director for Collection Development at 625-4301 or lenzx009@umn.edu.
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