Spotlight
Welcome!
It's a new year here at Lewis & Clark Law School. The Boley Law Library welcomes back our 2L - 4L students, and welcomes our new 1L students, LL.Ms, transfer students and visitors. Here are a few helpful hints to assist you in your studies and in making full use of the Law Library's in-person and online services.
Library Cards/Student IDs
New students will be able to pick up their student IDs, which are also their library cards, at the Library Circulation Desk during the first week of classes. Visitors and tranfer students will likewise pick up their library cards at the Circulation Desk after your student ID photos are taken.
Returning students will need to update their records with their current address and phone number at the Library Circulation desk the first time they use their library cards. This is a quick and easy transaction. We promise not to eat into your quality time with your favorite study aid!
Library Hours
The Boley Law Library is open seven days a week during the semester. Hours are Monday - Thursday 7am - midnight, Friday 7am - 10pm, Saturday and Sunday 9am - midnight. Check our reference desk hours and any holiday changes at our Library Hours page.
Study Aids on Reserve
A plethora of study aids for a variety of classes are on reserve at the Circulation Desk, available for 3-hour checkout. Among your choices are items from the Nutshell series, Emanuel's Outlines, Gilbert's Law Summaries, Roadmap Law Course Outlines, the Understanding series (Understanding Civil Procedure, Understanding Remedies, etc.), the Concise Hornbook series, and the Examples and Explanations series.
Many students have found study aids to be helpful in understanding classroom topics as well as helpful in exam preparation. Like other reserve materials, study aids may generally be renewed after three hours. However, there is often a high demand for these items at various points in the semester, so sometimes you may not be able to renew a study aid if others are awaiting its return.
TWEN, Westlaw and LexisNexis Passwords
All students attending Lewis & Clark Law School have access to both Westlaw and LexisNexis via individual passwords. 1Ls, new LL.Ms, transfers, and visitors will receive passwords at orientation. Be sure to register them right away via the instructions on the password cards. If you have not received a Westlaw or LexisNexis password, please stop by the Law Library Reference Desk.
What about TWEN? Many professors at the law school provide online access to course materials via Westlaw's TWEN. Access TWEN course sites using your Westlaw password.
Here's how to enroll in your TWEN course: Just login to TWEN using your Westlaw password, click Add a Course, then select the course (your professor may need to provide you a password), and click submit.That's it. You'll only have to go through this process once per class.
Links to online L&C Law School course materials such as TWEN or faculty web sites are available at our straightforwardly named Course Pages page.
Research Assistance
We are here to help. The Reference Desk is your first and best place to ask questions related to finding and using all print and online library materials and services, assistance with legal research, how to get started on research, one-on-one instruction, and paper topic selection. Keep an eye out for announcements about upcoming brown bag classes.
The Reference Desk is staffed by a law librarian seven days a week during the Fall and Spring semesters. Bring your questions to the Reference Desk in the Library, call (503) 768-6688, or email lawlib@lclark.edu.
Looking for a paper topic? Check out our Choosing a Paper Topic site, complete with current awareness tools for finding legal issues to write about, our page of faculty recommended topics, Paper Topics Ideas, as well as writing advice to be found in the library.
Online Research at Your Convenience
The Boley Law Library provides access to a number of specialized legal research databases beyond those offered by LexisNexis and Westlaw. These databases are available from on or off campus via our Databases & Indexes page. Search these databases on your own computer, at the Wood Hall computer labs, or on any of the Legal Research Stations located behind the Reference Desk in the Law Library.
Off-campus access is provided via the links on our Databases page. Just use the off-campus links on that page, enter your Lewis & Clark email username and password when prompted, and you will be redirected to your database in moments. Lost or forgot your email password? Just go here to reset it.
Among our databases are the over-100 titles in the BNA All online library, a fantastic source for specialized research or for finding a paper topic. Be sure to track your area of interest using the BNA Email Updates service.
Other high-end databases worth keeping in mind are: Congressional Universe (U.S. federal legislative history), U.S. Congressional Serial Set Digital Library, RIA Checkpoint and CCH (tax law), HeinOnline, LegalTrac and the Index to Legal Periodicals (research full-text and indexed law reviews from 1830 - present), ELI's Environmental Law Reporter and BNA's Environment Reporter (BNA has 15 environmental law titles), and the three environmental law news and email services: E & E Daily, Greenwire, and Land Letter. Find these and many more at Boley's Databases & Indexes page.
Wireless Network, Computers, & Email Access
Full access to the school network is available from all locations of the Boley Library and Wood Hall. Every seat in the Boley Library is wired for network access, and, for those who find being tied down by a network cable oh-so 2002, wireless access is omnipresent. The Law School's Computing Services department stands ready to help you set up your computer, including upgrading your operating system and providing anti-virus software to meet the College's standards, setting up your network login, and installing access to the networked printer in the Boley Law Library stacks and the two printers in Wood Hall. Just stop by the Computer Lab Help Desk for assistance.
The Wood Hall computer labs are also available for student use. If you have not previously used them, your Lewis & Clark Law School student ID will gain you access. You can change your lab password anytime from the lab computer desktop.
All students at the Law School have a yournamehere@lclark.edu email account. 1Ls, transfers and visiting students can set up their email accounts here. Please note that not only is your email username and password quite important for communication via, well, email, they are your entry to library databases from off-campus (see below) and super-secure services such as the Law Registrar's WebAdvisor (more info here) and Faculty and Course Evaluations.
Forgot your email password? Good news! L&C IT and Computing Services have created an online system for changing lost passwords. Go here to reset your email password. Much more information on computers at L&C Law is available at the Computing Services homepage.
Group Study Rooms
As the new year begins, here is a gentle reminder about group study room etiquette. The key to this reminder is the word "group." The Law School has nine study rooms available in Wood Hall for your study enjoyment. During the school year, when the rooms are in less demand than during exams, many people use the rooms for individual quiet study areas. Please note that the rooms are really intended as a place for groups to study and converse.
Please be sure to abide by both the spirit and letter of the law as it applies to group study rooms. The rules are posted on all study rooms; please note these in particular:
- you may sign-up to reserve the room for your group for one three hour period per day
- if you are studying alone and a group needs the room, you will need to leave and find a carrel or table instead
- if you show up for a study group, and your group does not appear after 15 minutes, you may be asked to leave by another group
CALI Lessons
The CALI Library of Lessons is a collection of over 625 interactive, computer-based tutorials covering 32 legal education subject areas available to students at member law schools like Lewis & Clark. Provided by CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, the lessons are written by law faculty and librarians, are regularly reviewed and revised, and are presented both online and on DVD. 1L students will receive the lessons on DVD during their Legal Research courses; all other students will have the latest DVDs delivered via campus mail.
Go to our CALI Lessons page for
shortcuts to the CALI Lessons online, the easy three-step registration
instructions (you'll need this secret Access Code 
,
available only to students with valid L&C Law School email passwords),
and for info on where to get the CALI-CD if you do not have regular online
access.
That's It?
No, that's not it! We have plenty more to share. Just ask a librarian for a look around the library, explore the library on your own, and tour our web site (full o'blogs and past-year exams) and find out all that the law library has to offer. We even provide this very cool map to get you started.
