Month: August 2010

This summer the law Library staff completed a major shift of the collection. The major changes occurred in the Main Reading Room: current Virginia practice materials (all the current CLE’s) current tax Materials (Tax Alcove is gone), current Restatements, current Fourth Circuit state codes, and current Uniform Laws Annotated are all now in the Main Reading Room, along with some materials that were there before the shift. For complete collection locations consult the Law Library Floor Plan available at the Circulation Desk.

First off, you should know that this guide won’t make legal research fun or fast or easy. Legal research is boring and tedious and nothing can change that. The best you can hope for is to plug along long enough that you eventually can get an unfortunate law student such as yourself to do your research for you.

What this guide can do is make legal research cheap. Free, as a matter of fact. Read More at GUIDE

Through a new partnership with the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC), CRL will expand the scope of its preservation activities and make new primary source digital collections available to CRL libraries. Under this partnership, CRL and LLMC will work together to identify, preserve, and provide digital access to important at-risk primary sources in the fields of international law, government, and politics. Read more.

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