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The Kresge Law Library recently installed a digital sign between the Commons and the Library entrance. The sign will be used to display current legal headlines, news about Notre Dame Law School faculty, useful tips from the law librarians and current weather information. It will also be used to provide information to visitors about events being hosted in the law school. In addition, the sign will be connected to the university’s NDAlert system to display up-to-date information regarding campus emergencies. An additional sign will be installed in the main atrium later this year.

Let there be light! After almost a year of consultations and visits by electricians both on campus and off, the lamps in the law library reading rooms are now fully operational.

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is offering a FREE online course called Topics in Digital Law Practice starting Friday, February 10, 2012 at 2pm ET.

This course is designed to provide an overview of the changes that are occurring in the practice of law today, especially with respect to technology. It will introduce law students for real-world situations that they will encounter in the job market and point law professors to new avenues to cover in their courses.…

On the day of the Law Library dedication, he toured the facility. Faculty members awaited his arrival to give a brief explanation on the usage of the room. Word was out that Mr. Kresge didn’t hear very well so each professor shouted in his ear. He turned to me at an early stop where Tex Dutile and Frank Beytagh were waiting and said, ―why is everyone yelling at me? My hear-ing is fine. I don’t see too well‖. The word spread down the hall-ways and adjustments were made immediately. Read More

Two hundred eleven Notre Dame Law School (NDLS) 2Ls (49%) and 3Ls (51%) responded to the 2011 Summer Research Experience Survey conducted from October 10th through 14th by the Research Department. This was a response rate of 46%. The annual survey helps the legal research instructors assess whether our students have the research skills to successfully compete with other law students in summer jobs. Legal research instructors Dwight King, Chris O’Byrne, Patti Ogden, and Warren Rees are proud that, over the years, NDLS students have reported confidence in their research skills, with many rating their skills as better than those of students from other schools. Here are a few highlights.

Due to Bank of America’s plan to charge a $5 fee for debit card users starting in January 2012, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Con-sumer Protection Act, Pub. L. No. 111-203, 124 Stat. 1376 (2010) has been back in the news again lately.

What does, Dodd-Frank have to do with debit cards? Quite a bit, due to Senator Dick Durbin’s (D- IL.) amendment which lowered the ―interchange fees‖ that banks can charge retailers for debit trans-actions: > Read More

Following past practice, the library has opened Room 3331 in Biolchini Hall of Law for take home exams. The room will remain open beginning today through the exam period.…

Due to anticipated high demand, you may not reserve a study room from Monday, December 5, through Friday, December 16 more than one day in advance. On any day during this period, you may reserve a room for that day or for the following day, but not beyond that. You can make same-day or next-day reservations online at the Circulation Desk. Study rooms will be left unlocked from 10 p.m. until 8:00 a.m. the next day. If you are in an unlocked room for which you have an 8:00 a.m. reservation, you must go to the Circulation Desk at 8:00 a.m. to retrieve the key.

Beginning Monday, November 28th, the Circulation Desk will take reservations for laptops that are on Reserve. Reservations will be taken on a first come, first served basis. During the exam period December 9 through December 16, laptops will be available only for Electronic Bluebook and there will be no overnight circulation of the laptops. Because of the limited number of loaner laptops available, we request that you do not reserve a laptop as back up for your personal laptop.

Student Assistants in the Library – what exactly do they do? The students working in Access Services are law students and undergraduates who perform many crucial tasks. They assist at the Circulation Desk, checking books in and out retrieving reserve materials. They also do shelf-reading to make sure every book is where it should be, and search for books that aren’t. Meet the Students

It’s always nine-o’clock at the north end of the Main Reading Room just outside Associate Dean, Ed Edmonds’ office. Hanging there on the wall is an old clock from the United States Supreme Court donated by Professor Roger F. Jacobs.

Stop by the Circulation Desk to give Holly Klejeski a warm NDLS welcome. Her position is Access Services Library Specialist for evenings & weekends. Holly started in the Access Services department on Monday, August 29th. Holly graduated, cum laude, from Notre Dame in May 2011 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Welcome Holly! > Read More about Holly

The September/October issue of the Law Library Newsletter has been published. Read this issue for all sorts of useful back-to-school updates, news about new additions to the library collection, and more!

Following past practice, attached please find the library’s public service hours for the Fall Semester.

The library’s collection of popular magazines has expanded! In addition to the familiar “serious” news (e.g., The Economist, The National Review, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Time) and professional titles (e.g., Chicago Lawyer, National Law Journal) that have been a regular feature in the soft seating area, we’ve added some brain candy for you!

Through the generosity of the Regelbrugges, three additions of rare books were recently made to The Roger and Dorcas Regelbrugge Family Endowed Collection in Natural Law of the Kresge Library. The books span the dates from 1592 to 1760.

Biolchini Hall Dedication: A Special Edition of the Law Library Newsletter.

Through the generosity of the Biolchini family and many other great benefactors to this building project of such great importance to the advancement of legal education at Our Lady’s University, the Kresge Law Library within the Biolchini Hall of Law, is a grand place for “reading, study, or reference.” In fact, we have over twenty study rooms, 150 carrels, and seating ranging from plush couches to desk chairs, providing spaces of many varieties for our library patrons and other guests. We also have great rectangular tables in the middle of a Main Reading Room surrounded by circular ones in alcoves that recreate the signature space within the 1930 Law School. For our many graduates, the Main Reading Room will look somewhat familiar, although the chandeliers replicate ones long gone from the space. Beyond that, most of it will look modern and quite different. We want to extend an invitation to all of our alumni to return to our campus and especially to this room. It cannot be truly experienced any other way. -Ed Edmonds…

Summer jobs, internships, and bar review courses have begun! Whether you find yourself needing more sources for your paper, want to move beyond Lexis or Westlaw for your research this summer, or simply want to avoid studying by catching up on current legal news, this review of former “Off the Shelf” columns is for you!

Located within the Access Services Department is the Circulation desk, an impressive focal point of
the department and the first thing a patron sees upon entering Notre Dame‘s Kresge Law Library.
As the welcome and information center where all patron services are coordinated, the primary goal
is to create an atmosphere that is warm and welcoming while providing the best possible public service
to faculty, students and other patrons.

Study rooms will be left unlocked from Monday, May 23 through Friday, August 19. Reservations for the study rooms will resume on Monday, August 22. Research assistants who have a special need for a study room are to speak with Carmela Kinslow, Rm. 2313 Biolchini.…

Hello students! Need research assistance or one-on-one resource training this summer? If so, be sure to visit your friendly research librarians. Classes may not be in session, but we‘re still here (Mon- Fri 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.) and eager to assist you.

Congratulations to all graduating students! It has been our pleasure to help you during the past 3 years.
We would like to ask one favor of you… please remember to return all law library books to the circulation desk before you leave campus. For all of you who will be returning in August, we make the same request to please return all library books.

The Law Library News will be recognized this year at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting as the 2011 recipient of AALL‘s Excellence in Marketing Award (Newsletter division). Four of the photos Susan Good and Beth Klein submitted for the American Association of Law Libraries‘ (AALL) 2011 ―Day in the Life photo contest were selected as finalists!

This award, which was presented to Starr at the Annual Student Worker Appreciation Breakfast on May 4th, honors a graduating student who has provided exemplary service to the li-brary. Starr, a 3L at the Notre Dame Law School, joined the Access Service department in August 2009.

Whether you‘re a student clerking for the summer or a recent graduate about to enter a yearlong clerkship, be sure to check out Westlaw‘s free publication: The Law Clerk‘s Guide to Success.

The law library website provides a convenient way to link to past exams of current law faculty who have chosen to provide electronic access through the law library for their materials. Through individual faculty agreement a number of faculty have made past exams available and it is possible to directly view them online…

Due to anticipated high demand, you may not reserve a study room from Wednesday, April 27 through Friday, May 13 more than one day in advance. On any day during this period, you may reserve a room for that day or for the following day, but not beyond that. You can make same-day or next-day reservations online…

Beginning Monday, April 25th, the Circulation Desk will take reservations for laptops that are on Reserve. Reservations will be taken on a first come, first served basis. During the exam period, May 6 through 13, laptops will be available only for Electronic Bluebook and there will be no overnight circulation of the laptops. Because of the limited number of loaner laptops available, we request that you do not reserve a laptop as back up for your personal laptop.…

Followings past practice, please find the library’s public service hours for the Easter Break.

Hesburgh Library is a great alternative place to study on campus for law students. It offers thirteen floors of mostly quiet study space and some great window views of campus. Additionally, tons of books and other library resources are available for law students to check out. > Find Out More