The Law Library has a wide range of materials for use, ranging from books and periodicals to online databases.
Find a Book
To request a book or other physical item in the Law Library, search Pegasus, the Law Library catalog. Pegasus contains book titles and journal titles. You can find journal articles by using the other online resources provided by the Law Library.
Once you have found the item you want in Pegasus, you can click the "Request pickup" button to page materials from the Cellar location. You will receive an email once the item has been paged and is available for pickup from the Circulation Desk at William and June Warren Hall 101. Certain items are not available for immediate paging, including rare books, microforms, and most items published prior to 1990. To access these items, please contact the Reference Desk.
For additional research help, see our online research guides or contact the Reference Desk.
Course Reserves
The Course Reserves are located at the temporary Circulation Desk in William and June Warren Hall 101. With Course Reserves, Law School faculty members may select and set aside books and other materials for 5-hour loans.
The Law Library puts material on Course Reserves only by a request from the course faculty member.
Faculty members who wish to place an item on Course Reserves should contact the Reference Desk. Students wishing for a book to be placed on Course Reserves should talk to the course instructor and have the instructor make the request.
Book and Paper Scanning
The Law Library has two professional grade scanners for use with books and papers. They are located on the second floor of William and June Warren Hall ("Big Warren").
You can choose to have the information sent to you via email or saved to a USB device. When scanning, it is best to keep individual files to no more than 40 pages to keep the file size manageable.
Please limit your scanning session to 30 minutes so that other patrons may also use the scanners.
Off-site Storage
Some Law Library items are rare and valuable, in poor condition, or seldom used. Due to the limited, fixed nature of our physical space, the Law Library does not keep them in the stacks but makes them available by request.
Much of the material housed off-site was published prior to 1990. Items shelved in Offsite ReCAP or Offsite Clancy storage can be requested through a Reference Librarian during Law Library reference hours.
Items requested from off-site storage before 3:30 p.m. should arrive in 1-2 business days. Items requested over the weekend should arrive on Tuesday. You will receive an email when your item is available at the Law Library Circulation Desk.