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Faculty Services

Reference Services

Our reference librarians are experienced legal researchers and instructors, holding degrees in both law and library science.

They can:

  • help you locate information
  • identify relevant books, articles, and electronic resources
  • develop search strategies for catalogs, databases, the web, and indexes
  • provide assistance in legal research methodology for finding cases and statutes
  • research lectures on topics covered in your course
  • recommend online and print resources for inclusion on course Blackboard pages
  • collaborate in gathering and monitoring information for scholarship
  • provide orientation and specialized training for research assistants

Faculty Research Assistance

Faculty members can request that their student research assistants be trained and supervised by reference librarians. To request research assistant training, contact Caity Swift (919-865-5871).

Routing

To keep you informed of the latest legal news and scholarship, we can send you the most recent copies of law journals and legal newspapers when they arrive in the library. To request routing of a particular title (or to modify your existing routing list), contact Teresa Teague (919-865-5872).

Alert Services

Many publishers allow us to set up periodic notifications to you about new books, journal articles, cases, amendments to statutes, and working papers in your areas of interest. To set up an alert, contact Caity Swift (919-865-5871). Here are some of the services we can set up for you:

  1. New Titles: Biweekly email notice of new books and journals that the library has recently purchased in your selected subject areas. Each item in your alert includes a delivery request link in order to facilitate office routing.
     
  2. Working Papers: Read the newest works of scholarship before they are published. The Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN) includes scholarship in 11 major disciplines, including: economics, finance, management, and law. You can set up subject-, author-, or repository-specific searches to be run periodically, with the results automatically forwarded to you.
     
  3. Law Journal Articles: We can help you set up email notification of new law journal articles through Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP). The law library's subscription gives each faculty member the opportunity to create a personalized SmartCILP profile to reflect his or her academic interests or research needs.
     
  4. Lexis+ and Westlaw: We can assist you in setting up periodic searches in Lexis+ and/or Westlaw, including searches for new legislation, cases, journal articles or news articles. These alerts will be run at an interval of your choosing (e.g. daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly etc.), and delivered to your e-mail.