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Library Services & Information

For Law School Staff Members

• Reference Services
  
  Drop by our Reference Office or contact the librarian on duty during Reference Office hours:
          Phone: 625-4309 || Email: law-ref@umn.edu.

 

Staff requests on behalf of our faculty members are given the highest priority by the reference staff. We try to respond to these requests immediately. If lengthy research is required, the staff and/or faculty member will be contacted promptly with an estimate on the amount of time this research will take.

 

The Law Library's reference librarians are available to assist you with your research needs. Feel free to contact any of these librarians directly by telephone or email if you would like the assistance of a specific person.

» Suzanne Thorpe	625-0187	s-thor@umn.edu	» Michael Hannon	625-0173	mhannon@umn.edu
» Vicente Garces	624-2597	garce003@umn.edu	» George Jackson	625-5596	g-jack@umn.edu
» Mary Rumsey	625-2905	rumse006@umn.edu

• LexisNexis & Westlaw Access
  University of Minnesota Law School faculty and staff are provided access to LexisNexis and Westlaw under Law Library's academic subscription to these services. To obtain a LexisNexis and/or Westlaw password contact the Reference Office at law-ref@umn.edu, 612-625-4309.
• Research Tutorials
  The reference librarians are available to provide personalized instruction on the use of databases and other resources. We can also arrange for a trainer from LexisNexis or Westlaw to meet with you. Feel free to request introductory overviews, refresher training, or more specialized training tailored to your immediate needs. This instruction can be arranged in your office at your convenience. To request this service, please contact Suzanne Thorpe.

• Placing Materials on Reserve
  If you wish to place materials on reserve for a faculty member, such as readings, sample exams and model answers, in hardcopy or electronic copy, contact Dan Matthews in the library circulation department (5-5262 or matth036@umn.edu).

   

  Consult the document, 10 Things to Know About Electronic Reserve for more information about placing materials, including sample exams, on electronic reserve. You can also contact Dan Matthews directly at (5-5262 or matth036@umn.edu).

   

  A list of items currently on course reserve is available here.

   

• Creating Course Web Sites, e.g. TWEN  (See Educational Technology below)

 

• 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 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.

 

• ASAP Retrieval Service (For items held in the law library and other libraries on-campus)

  The Law Library offers faculty members an expedited document retrieval service called ASAP. The ASAP staff will retrieve materials requested on behalf of our faculty members from the Law Library and other libraries on campus and deliver them to the faculty member's office (usually the same day requested). To request materials for a faculty member, please contact David Zopfi-Jordan at 625-1513 or email to: x-asap@umn.edu.

• Interlibrary Loan (For items not held at a library on-campus)

  When an item requested on behalf of a faculty member is not available on campus, the faculty member and/of staff member is notified by the ASAP or reference staff. The library will then attempt to obtain the item from another library. You can request materials from other libraries by contacting David Zopfi-Jordan, email: x-asap@umn.edu or phone: 625-1513. It may take a few weeks for materials requested on interlibrary loan to arrive, so if the item(s) are needed immediately, please let us know and we will try to obtain them on a RUSH basis.

• Routing Service

  The Law Library will route current issues of periodicals and other serials to a faculty member's office. Faculty members can have their names added to the routing list for a specific title, by contacting David Zopfi-Jordan at 625-1513 or x-asap@umn.edu.

• 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.

• Faculty Publications Display Case & the Faculty Archive Collection
  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. Faculty members are encouraged to donate copies of their publications for cataloging and preservation by the library. Please contact Connie Lenz, 5-4301, lenzx009@umn.edu for more information on donating items for the display cases and the faculty archive.
• Donations
  The Law Library welcomes donations from faculty members. To donate materials on behalf of a faculty member, please contact the ASAP staff at 5-9534 or x-asap@umn.edu to arrange for pick up. We will supply a letter of acknowledgment for donated materials.

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