LIBRARY FLOOR PLANS
First Floor
- The Circulation and Reference areas, First Floor Reading Room and Rare Book Room. Titles in high demand, materials needed for specific courses and current, unbound periodicals are shelved on Reserve behind the Circulation Desk. At the Reference Desk, librarians are available during posted hours of service to guide students in performing legal research and to assist in using the collection and the computerized information retrieval systems. Workstations providing access to online databases are available for student use in the Reference Room. The general reference collection is also shelved in the Reference Room.
On the first floor you also will find JACOB, the online public access catalog; various indexes in book and CD-ROM format; the rare book room; and several cabinets with changing displays of new books and books on specific topics.
Mezzanine- Library administrative offices and technical services staff offices.
Second Floor- Basic legal materials for federal and state law research: reports of the United States Supreme Court, of lower federal and of state courts, federal and state codes, digests, and Shepard's citators. Separate rooms on this floor house local jurisdiction materials, photocopiers, restrooms, a copy center operated by Xerox Services, a computer classroom, a printer room for LexisNexis and Westlaw, and a Computer Information Center (a help desk for student computing).
Stack Level One (SL-1) & Stockton Cellar- SL-1 houses Bound periodicals and periodical indexes. Stockton Cellar contains the Legal Reference collection, including encyclopedias, form books, and other standard legal reference materials. Photocopiers, a restroom, and the offices of the Reference librarians are also located in the Cellar.
Lower Level One (LL-1) - Federal legislative materials, government documents, non-print items in microform with readers, printers and viewing monitors, and computer lab workstations. Restrooms and photocopiers are also available on this level.
Stack Level Two (SL-2) & Stack Level Three (SL-3) - The treatise collection, A-KZ. The books are arranged according to the classification system of the Library of Congress. Most law books are classified under the letter K. KF denotes American law, and international legal materials usually appear in the class JZ or KZ.
Stack Level Two: A-KF899
Stack Level Three: KF900-KZ
Lower Level Two (LL-2) - The historic collection, superseded materials and the remainder of the LC classified treatises, L-Z. The historic collection includes older state reports (except for those of local jurisdictions housed in the 2nd Floor reading room), and earlier editions of treatises. For most states the Library has the older official reports which predate the National Reporter System. The LL-2 collections are housed in compact shelving. Please contact Circulation if you need assistance in gaining access to these materials.
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