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Each full-time professor in the Law School is encouraged to use our online Faculty Request System to send requests for materials, short-term research help, and research instruction, as well as other types of library assistance. Please contact Vanessa King to assist with all of your additional information needs.

The following professional staff members participate in the Faculty Services Program:

Law Review Submission Resources

Are you trying to decide which law reviews would be suitable for your latest scholarship or what guidelines to follow for a particular journal? Check our Law Review Submission Resources page or Vanessa King.

Citation Tracking

Do you want to know how your published works are being cited in new literature? We can set up an automatic citation tracking search that checks new articles and treatises added to Westlaw's TP-ALL database each month and sends you a report. Contact Terry Gordon or Vanessa King.

Bibliographic Research and Guidance

Our librarians are experts in tracking down information, no matter how elusive. Simply send your request using our online Faculty Request System. Do you need a legislative history of an act or a complete bibliography of the works of a legal scholar? Send a faculty request and one of our librarians will locate or compile one. Are you considering a research project and want to know what has already been published in the field? Again, simply send a faculty request to let us know and we can scan the literature for you.

Our librarians can also be useful sources of information when your work takes you into unfamiliar areas, especially outside of pure legal research. We can provide guidance on the best databases and other resources available to you as a member of the greater Emory community.

Reference Desk

If you need research assistance immediately, please call the Library's Reference Department at 7-8058 or stop by the desk on the 2nd floor. During the academic year someone is generally available from 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM Monday through Thursday, and 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Friday.

Document Retrieval & Interlibrary Loan

Whenever you need a book or article, we can obtain it for you regardless of where it is located. Simply send a request using our online Faculty Request System. If the material is held by the Law Library or accessible online, we will deliver it to you right away. If it is available at another campus library, our Faculty Document Services department will retrieve it for you within a day or two. If no Emory collection owns it, we will use our interlibrary loan network to obtain it from another institution, generally within a week or two.

If you are interested in knowing details about the interlibrary loan process, check out our ILL pages, especially Information for Faculty & Librarians. To submit your own requests right now, go directly to our online ILL system, ILLiad.

For materials not at Emory that you expect to need for more than a month, we encourage you to send a faculty request or contact Terry Gordon about purchasing the volumes for our collection rather than borrowing them via ILL.

Orders for New Materials

Faculty recommendations are one of the Library's most valuable ways of identifying new materials to add to the collection. Do not hesitate to send a faculty request or contact Terry Gordon if you encounter references to books, journals, or online resources that would enhance our collection. We can rush-order most items and route them to you upon their arrival. In the case of very expensive materials, it may be necessary to assess the budgetary impact prior to purchase.

EUCLID and Other Online Catalogs

EUCLID is the catalog for all Emory libraries. It includes not only treatises, looseleafs, periodicals, reporters, and other traditional print materials, but also links to tens of thousands of free and subscription-based resources on the Web. For a detailed introduction, see the printable Introduction to Basic Searching.

Firefox users can install a special toolbar that will enable them to search EUCLID, Databases@Emory, and eJournals@Emory instantly. Download it from the LibX page.

The  button at the top of each EUCLID page enables you to determine what is charged out to you and renew everything or just individual volumes. Use your Emory NetID and password to gain access to your account.

In the event that a search yields no results, EUCLID will give you the opportunity to execute the same search in the GIL Universal Catalog, WorldCat, or Google Scholar:

• The GIL Universal Catalog is a combined catalog of holdings in libraries of the University System of Georgia.
• WorldCat is a catalog of materials owned by over 40,000 libraries across the country and around the world.
• Google Scholar is a search engine that locates Web-based scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, articles, and preprints.

Materials that you identify through these catalogs that are not accessible online can be requested through interlibrary loan.

Electronic Resources

The Law Library has an outstanding collection of electronic resources, most of which are available to you both at the Law School and anywhere else that you have Web access. We subscribe to products from LexisNexis, Westlaw, Hein, BNA, CCH, RIA, bepress, Gale, and numerous other vendors. For a complete list arranged by title see Electronic Resources--Alphabetical. For a list arranged by subject see Electronic Resources--By Subject. For assistance in using any of them, contact Will Haines or Vanessa King.

In addition to resources licensed by the Law Library, you have access to a variety of databases in the collection of the Emory General Libraries. Through the Databases@Emory website you can discover and access dozens of products in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. If you are conducting research in an unfamiliar non-legal field, contact Vanessa King for advice on available resources.

Research Assistant Training and Support

At the beginning of summer each year we offer a series of training sessions for your research assistants. Past topics have included legislative history, codes and administrative law, foreign and international law, legal history, electronic resources beyond Lexis & Westlaw, and non-law social policy research. We will publicize the schedule in May. If there are any subjects you are especially interested that we cover, send a faculty request or Amy Flick.

In addition, your liaison librarian will be happy to provide individual guidance to your research assistants at any time of year. Simply send a faculty request or direct your research assistant to our Research Consultation Request form located on the Law Library’s homepage. This can be particularly helpful at the beginning of a new project.

Each research assistant has a print allowance at the Law Library and/or a copy/print card to use in faculty research projects. The copy/print card can be used for copying at the Law Library and for both copying and printing at other campus libraries. For details, see Faculty & Their RA's/Proxies.

Circulation

Print materials charged out from the Law Library to Law School faculty are due at the end of the following May. You will receive a list of volumes several weeks in advance. If you would like to keep any of the materials, you can either renew them through EUCLID or request that we renew them for you. Simply send a faculty request or contact Felicity Walsh.

Volumes from other Emory libraries are usually due one year from the date they are checked out. The major exception is Health Sciences, which circulates books to faculty for only 28 days. In all cases, you will receive advanced warning that an item is due soon, and you will usually have the opportunity to renew.

Law faculty may designate research assistants or other students to be proxy borrowers. Proxies may check out materials in their professor's name at all campus libraries. Once a student is a proxy for a faculty member, the privileges are good all over campus. For details, see Faculty & Their RA's/Proxies.

An item currently checked out to another patron can be recalled for your use. If you have located an item via EUCLID and the screen shows a due date rather than a location, click the blue "Request" button on the screen and follow the directions to initiate the recall. You will need to identify yourself using your Emory NetID and password. Recalled books will be checked out to you and placed in your mailbox upon their return.

If you receive notice that an item you are using has been recalled, please return it as promptly as possible. Failure to comply with a recall from another campus library may result in a $65 fine or loss of all library privileges. If you still need to use the material, contact Felicity Walsh or Vanessa King to discuss alternatives, including purchase, interlibrary loan, or a recall of your own.

Book Return

A book return box is located in Gambrell Hall near the connector on the 5th Floor. You may use it for all materials checked out from the Law Library or any other campus libraries. Circulation staff members check this box every morning.

If you have a large number of volumes to return, send a faculty request or contact Felicity Walsh to arrange for pick-up from your office.

Bibliographic Instruction

If you are teaching a seminar or other class with a writing requirement and your students could benefit from research instruction by a librarian, send  a faculty request or contact Amy Flick. We can create a handout or Web page of useful information resources, or we can conduct an instruction session in your classroom. Make your request at least one month in advance for webpages or classes on new topics, and at least two weeks in advance for repeat topics. We may be able to identify and acquire useful materials not yet in the collection.

Reserves

Do you want to put materials on reserve for a class, or do you want to make past exams available to your students? We offer the option of electronic reserves accessible through the Web or traditional print materials held at the Circulation Desk in the Library. Either way, the Library uses a system called ReservesDirect to manage the materials. More information is available at About Emory's ReservesDirect System. A form for placing items on reserve is at How to Submit Materials to Go on Reserve. Send a faculty request or contact or Felicity Walsh for assistance.

We can assist you with a variety of current awareness services in your fields of interest. Please send your request using our online Faculty Request System or contact Vanessa King for assistance with any of the services described below.