Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library

Here is an update of the hours for the Library and the After Hours Reading Room until the end of the term, plus some important Finals policies information.

Hours for Thankgiving Weekend are as follows:

There will be no access to the After Hours Reading Room when the Library is closed from Wednesday evening to Sunday at 9 a.m. 

Extended Library and After Hours Reading Room Hours for Final Exams begin Friday, December 4 and are listed on the Intranet

Limited Access Policy

As usual, we are also instituting a more restrictive access policy for the exam study period.  From 11/30 – 12/18 we will not make any UC user access tickets available, and UC users will have to establish that they have specific need of Law Library materials (by showing us a course assignment or a letter from a professor) before they will be allowed in the Library. 
  
Conference Rooms

In anticipation of the conference rooms being even more heavily used this time of year—with a number of “first-timers” joining in—I wanted to remind everyone that conference room reservations are handled online by going to http://rooms.law.ucla.edu.  You will need to login with your LawNet credentials as follows:  LAWNET\username. If you need assistance with the login, please don’t hesitate to ask for help at the circulation desk.  I’d also like to remind you that your M70 key will get you into the rooms.  Remember that you can only make one reservation per day for a maximum of three hours and reservations can only be made the same day.  More information about the Conference Rooms is available on the web at: http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=2567

PLEASE NOTE:  You will not be able to delete your conference room reservations during the reading/examination period (beginning November 30).

Posted by Donna Gulnac at 5:21 PM | Permalink

Welcome! Here's an update with some important changes we implemented in the library for this year and some useful information:

• We have moved the ERes Course pages behind the Law School Intranet, which means you will now need to login with your LawNET or BOL username and password to get access to your course pages.  Please also note that the address has changed to http://eres.law.ucla.edu (although the old link still works).
• We have changed our beverage policy so that beverages are allowed only in sealable, reusable containers.  Beverages in disposable containers are strictly prohibited. This was done both to meet the demand for allowing usage of reusable containers other than the approved library mugs and to adopt a more environmentally friendly policy.
• We now have an online library tour available at http://www.law.ucla.edu/librarytour.
• We have created a Guide for First Year Law Students on LibGuides and even returning students might be interested in the section called:  Food/Fun Guide to UCLA & Westwood.
• We have a new look for our Tower Reading Room and Law & Popular Culture Video/DVD collection lists.

Posted by Donna Gulnac at 7:43 PM | Permalink

The Library has purchased a subscription for your use to AudioCaseFiles.com, which provides MP3 audio versions of over 1,000 cases, many of which are in your assigned casebooks. It also provides over 4,000 hours of trial video from over 130 cases.

You can view the videos online, and you can either listen to the audios on your computers or download them to an iPod or other MP3 player. The audio case database includes cases from the casebooks of our own Dean Schill (Property), Professor Yeazell (Civil Procedure), and Professor Grady (Torts), among others.

Register today:

1. Go to http://www.audiocasefiles.com/register/.
2. Choose “a member” in step one and “school” in step two. Then select University of California at Los Angeles from the dropdown list, complete the form, and submit. You must use your law school email address.
3. You will receive a verification email. Click the link to complete registration.

Click here for the AudioCaseFiles flyer.

Posted by Donna Gulnac at 12:44 PM | Permalink

Posted by Donna Gulnac at 5:39 PM | Permalink

Dear Law Students,

As you may know, the Law Library will be closed to the public from December 20 through January 1; however if you need to use the library December 22 & 23, there will be library staff available from 9 am – 4:30 pm. To gain access to the library on these days, simply knock on the front door. Please be prepared to show your BruinCard.

PLEASE NOTE: Because the whole campus will be closed December 24 – January 1, no one, including members of Law Reviews and Journals, will be allowed in the library during that time.

The Computer Lab will also be available the dates and times listed above, but it will not be staffed. You will also have access to the LexisNexis and Westlaw printers and the scanner in the After Hours Reading Room during the listed hours.

On January 2, the library will be open to the public from 9am – 4:30 pm. Regular library hours resume on January 3.

Posted by Donna Gulnac at 9:48 AM | Permalink

Dear Students,

We would like to wish you the best of luck on your upcoming finals! We hope the library is a comfortable and clean environment to aid in your studies but we could use your help!

If you notice that temperature levels are uncomfortable, observe other problems such as lights out in the study carrels, or discover plumbing problems, please let us know! You can report these problems by e-mailing Nancy Berkowitz (berkowit@law.ucla.edu) or by notifying staff at the Circulation Desk. Helpful information to have is the area where the problem is located – including floor and stack info (2nd floor, KFC, aisle __, for example). It is a big library and we have been working hard to keep it beautiful and comfortable. Your help is greatly appreciated!

And remember -- the Library is a food and cell-free zone. Take a short break from studying and take your food or cell phone outside. Your body, brain, and classmates will thank you!

Again, good luck on finals and we hope you have a relaxing winter break.

The Law Library Staff

Posted by Nancy Berkowitz at 6:25 PM | Permalink

POSTED ON BEHALF OF KEVIN GERSON:

Dear all 2Ls, 3Ls and LLM students,

Ken Sanchez of Bloomberg will be located downstairs in the Lexis lab (off the Library's after-hours reading room) to set up new accounts, so please stop by if you would like to get an account.

Ken will also be providing the following training sessions on a drop-in basis to both new and experienced users:

October 20th:

Room 1327: 12:00 - 1:00pm Bloomberg 101
Room 1327: 4:05 - 5:05pm Corporate Insolvency & Restructuring

October 21st:

Room A122: 12:00 - 1:00pm Bloomberg 101
Room 1337: 4:00 - 5:00pm Litigation Tools on Bloomberg

Thank you,

Kevin

Posted by Donna Gulnac at 12:22 PM | Permalink

Posted on behalf of Kevin Gerson, Law Library Director:

I’m pleased to let you know that Bloomberg, the premier provider of business and financial information, is expanding into the legal information arena and will be at the Law School to give out free accounts during the week of Sept 15.

The new Bloomberg Law service is an all-inclusive tool providing legal analysis, filings, opinions, real-time and archival news, and company and financial information. Once you receive your Bloomberg account, you will be able to access the service via the Web using a biometric device, called the B-Unit.

The Bloomberg representatives will have a table set up in the courtyard on Sept 15 and 16 to sign up students, so please stop by if you would like to get an account. The reps will remain at the Law School Sept 17-19 to provide training sessions.

Some of your professors are requesting that you get accounts for course work. If so, this is the time. Those of you receiving accounts will be allowed to keep the account for free for up to six months after graduation.

Thank you,
Kevin

Posted by Donna Gulnac at 5:52 PM | Permalink

The hours for the Library and the After Hours Reading Room are as follows:

Posted by Donna Gulnac at 5:57 PM | Permalink

On behalf of the Law Library Staff, I'd like to formally welcome you all to the UCLA School of Law. Please know that we are here to help you, so don't hesitate to ask our Circulation Desk staff about anything from how to find your reserve materials to how to make free scans.  In addition, the Reference Librarians are here to help you with your research for your papers or projects.  If you want to know who we are and what we look like, please be sure to look for our photos on the Library Staff web page on the Law School Intranet.

At orientation you received our Quick Guide to get you started on using the library.  More complete information is available on our Services for UCLA Law Students page. Pay particular attention to the link "Just for Law Students."  You will find addtional helpful information on this blog, particulary in the two entries immediately prior to this one.

If you didn't come to the library during orienation, we have your orienation materials waiting for you at the Circulation Desk, including your library wallet (for easy library access), your library tote bag and your approved library mug.

I hope you will be pleased with the services we offer you, but don't hesitate to let me know if you have any suggestions or comments (gulnac@law.ucla.edu)

Posted by Donna Gulnac at 7:00 PM | Permalink

Welcome New Students and Welcome Back Continuing Students!

We are pleased to be able to offer many new and exciting services this year and one is so amazing that we have to keep it a secret among the law school community!

Continue reading "WELCOME!!! Learn about What's New in the Library for Fall 2007" »

Posted by Donna Gulnac at 11:04 AM | Permalink

The Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library is pleased to offer two specialized collections to our law school students, faculty and staff.  Please come to the library and check them out!!

Continue reading "The Tower Reading Room Collection & Law and Popular Culture Video/DVD Collection" »

Posted by Donna Gulnac at 2:51 PM | Permalink

Welcome to the New Law Library Blog!

Through this site, we plan to keep you up to date with the latest in the library.  In addition, we will have regular columns on a variety of topics (not necessarily related to research or even law school). Please note the Question/Suggestion box in the right column.  You may use this to send us suggestions for Blog categories or library services, as well as ask questions about any aspect of the library.

Please visit often or sign up for the RSS feed!

Posted by Donna Gulnac at 10:45 AM | Permalink

Please don't hesitate to stop by the Circulation Desk to ask for assistance.  You can also print out a Library Locker map to help you find the way.

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