BLS Library's first-floor circulation desk, 250 Joralemon Street
This guide box states the hours when BLS Library staffs its circulation desk.
Each semester, BLS Library's staff purchases and places on reserve one copy of all required course materials (other than statutory/regulatory supplements). Reserve materials are located behind BLS Library's first-floor circulation desk. Students can check out reserve materials for renewable two-hour periods.
Tip:To ensure availability of required course materials at the beginning of a semester, please make submissions to Akademos at least four weeks before the start of a semester.
This library guide highlights current editions of BLS Library's casebooks, study aids and guides for law school courses and bar exams. It describes sources on: Doing Well & Being Well; Preparing for Law School Exams & Bar Exams; Administrative Law; Civil Practice & Procedure; Conflict of Laws; Constitutional Law; Contracts; Corporations & Other Business Associations; Criminal Law & Procedure; Evidence; Family Law; Professional Responsibility; Property; Sales; Secured Transactions; Torts; and Wills, Trusts & Estates. Sources are categorized by type and are listed "newest to oldest."
Note: BLS Library often has only a single copy of a law textbook or study aid in its reserve collection. This guide tab describes how BLS faculty can request personal access to law textbooks and study aids from vendors.
Course reserve contains any additional materials that BLS faculty want to make available to their students during a specific semester. Course reserve includes both BLS Library's sources and faculty members' personal copies of sources. Course reserve materials are located behind BLS Library's first-floor circulation desk. Students can check out course reserve materials for renewable two-hour periods. Before the start of each semester, a library staff member contacts BLS faculty to determine whether professors wish to place sources on course reserve. At the end of each semester, a library staff member returns personal copies of sources to faculty. To safely operate within copyright guidelines, the library staff does not make multiple copies of course reserve materials.
Tip: If faculty choose to add sources to course reserve mid-semester, please provide the library staff with 24 hours' notice to process the sources before announcing to students that the sources are available on course reserve.