Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library

The library has recently purchased the following books:

• Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews (New York Times book review: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/books/review/Brockes-t.html)
• The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild by Craig Childs (Los Angeles Times book review: http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-book18dec18,1,1257909.story)
• The Gathering by Anne Enright (Los Angeles Times book review: http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-rutten3oct03,1,3363241.story)
• The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer (New York Times book review: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/books/review/Morris-t.html)
• Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography by Andrew Morton (New York Times book review: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/books/10masl.html)
• What is Life?: Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology by Ed Regis (Reviews from Christian Science Monitor and Nature: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0408/p13s03-bogn.html & http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v452/n7188/full/452692a.html)

If you are interested in borrowing these books (UCLAW students, staff and faculty only), they are in the Tower Reading Room (on book stands).

Posted by June Kim at 11:58 AM | Permalink

UCLA Law Students--Be sure to visit the Summer Hours page for very imporant information about our hours this summer.

Posted by Donna Gulnac at 5:27 PM | Permalink

On Wednesday, 4/16, we will place copies of a CD containing PDF versions of the Law Library Research Guide Series in your law school mailboxes.  These guides and CDs were prepared by Librarians in the Law Library especially for UCLA Law Students.  Students in past years have described the Guides as invaluable in assisting them with their summer research assignments. Accompanying the CD is a letter outlining LexisNexis and Westlaw policies for summer use.  The research guides and other important summer research information (including Westlaw & LexisNexis summer password information) may also be found on the Library Website at http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=1789

Posted by Donna Gulnac at 5:37 PM | Permalink

Please read below for important Library information for finals:

Conference Rooms

PLEASE NOTE:  You will not be able to delete your conference room reservations during the reading/examination period (beginning April 21).

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 now handled online by going to http://rooms.law.ucla.edu. You will need to login with your LawNet credentials (depending on where you are when you login, you may need to add LAWNET in front of your username 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

Extended Library and After Hours Reading Room Hours for Finals

Since we do not advertise our extended hours to the public, you will need to visit the "Library Finals Policies" page on the Intranet for the listing of hours.

Limited Access Policy

We are also instituting a more restrictive access policy for the exam study period. From 4/21 – 5/12 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.

Please let me know if you have any comments, questions or suggestions.

Good luck on Finals!

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