Due to anticipated high demand, you may not reserve a study room 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. Read More

Beginning Monday, April 22, the Circulation Desk will take reservations for laptops that are on Reserve. Reservations will be taken on a first come, first served basis.

In preparation for the exams laptops will not be available April 29-May 2 so that the Electronic Bluebook software can be loaded onto the laptops.

During the exam period, May 3 through May 11, 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. Read More

Come join the research librarians for Research Redux sessions to prepare you for your summer jobs!

The research librarians will offer a series of small-group, nitty-gritty, online sessions designed to: 1) review topics covered in the 1L Legal Research course; or 2) introduce new sources that could come in handy this summer.

Each session will last 50 minutes or less; and will take place in one of the classrooms. Bring your laptop to the session.

View the schedule. Sign up online. Read More

Congratulations to Susan Hamilton, Special Projects Assistant in the Kresge Law Library who was recently republished in “A Women’s History Month” project of the Feminist Task Force of the American Library Association. > Read More Read More

Have you been to the South Reading Room recently? Next time you’re searching for some light reading, head over to the library, where you can kick back and relax on one of the comfy couches in this sunny reading room and enjoy any number of “popular reading” materials! Be sure to peruse the popular magazine titles, daily newspapers, and the newly created collection of “popular” and “Notre Dame-related” fiction and non-fiction, which includes The Complete Calvin & Hobbes, and numerous John Grisham novels. Read More

Check out the Web page below to see the complete results of the 2012 Summer Research Experience Survey taken by our 2Ls and 3Ls last semester. We legal research instructors want to thank all of you who participated! Read More

The library will be open during the following hours during the Christmas Break. > Read More Read More

Congratulations to these students who were winners in the drawings for responding to the 2012 Summer Research Experience Survey.

SURVEY WINNERS
Amazon gift card
Benjamin Risacher, Kelly Lockman, Nick Kamenjarin, Krista Giannattasio, Courtlyn Roser-Jones, David Humen, Michael Hagerty

Apple pie by Dwight King
Trevor Currie, Kristy Engler, Jacquelyn Fradette, Joe Molosky Read More

The library will be open during the following hours during the Summer months. Read More

Ed Edmonds was a co-presenter with Frank Houdek, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Southern Illinois University of “Separating Folklore and Myths From Reality: Searching For the Truth,” at the 24th Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, New York, on June 1, 2012. Read More

The library will be open during the following hours during the Summer months. Read More

Whether you’re trying to justify your smartphone purchase as an “education expense” or using it to escape your homework, there are apps for you! Over 150 students, faculty, and staff completed a survey to identify the most useful and most popular apps available for Apple and Android devices. Read on for some of their responses. Read More

The library‘s two public copiers have been replaced by one newer model, and there is a brand new overhead scanner to simplify book and document scanning. Read More

After a combined 110 years of service to Our Lady’s University, Patti Ogden, Jeff Morgan, Mary Cowsert, and Barb Ritty are retiring. March 30th will be Mary, Barb, and Jeff’s last day. Best wishes! Read More

John H.A. Whitman first stepped onto the campus of Notre Dame in 1918 when he was hired to teach American literature and Latin in the prep school. But, the Law Library will always remember him as the first law librarian, beginning in 1921. Read More

Most students have made use of the library’s Course Reserves at some point, but not many know about the other materials available behind the Circulation Desk. Read More

Welcome back, students! Curious about what significant legal events have occurred over Christmas break? Well, if you haven’t been following them yourself (which we hope is the case since break is a great opportunity to focus on other things for a while), then you should visit JURIST to catch up. JURIST is a Web-based news and real-time legal research service provided by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pennsylvania (which you may have noticed featured on our new digital library sign). Read More

Prof. Jim Seckinger donated a set of materials to the library from CLE workshop he taught in December on questioning of expert witnesses in international arbitration. See: http://innopac.law.nd.edu/record=b1358558. Also of note for the practicing lawyer is the 2011-2012 edition of volume 14 of the annual review of ―Family Law – Children in Need of Services‖ in the Indiana Practice series published by West. This volume is authored by Eric Smithburn and Ann Carol Nash. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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 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. Read More

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 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. Read More

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. Read More

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. Read More

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 Read More

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. Read More

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 Read More