Library Updates

We have all the details on how to register for summer access to Westlaw, LexisNexis, Loislaw and Casemaker, as well as links to our databases - where registration is rarely required.

Find all the info at our Summer Access to Westlaw, LexisNexis and More spotlight.

The Law Library begins extended exam hours for students this semester on Saturday, April 26.

From the 26th through May the 9th the Boley Law Library will be open 7am until Midnight every day. On Saturday, May 10th the library will be open 9am to Midnight.

View our current library hours and the Watzek College Library hours.

Got fines? Then clear out your fines and your conscience with our annual Food for Fines program.

Between April 21 and May 15 we will waive your fines if you bring in an equivalent amount of non-perishable nutritious food. If your fine is $50.00 or more, you can purchase a gift card from Fred Meyer for the equivalent amount of your fines.

All food and gift cards go to the Raphael House, a shelter for at-risk children and women in Portland. Raphael House suggests the following food items for donations:

• Boxed meals i.e. pasta and rice mixes
• Granola bars and cereal bars
• Canned meals i.e. spaghettios, raviolis, chili, stew
• Canned meats
• Ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard
• Soup - any kind
• Juice - any kind
• Jam - fruit jams of any kind
• Cocoa, coffee, herbal tea
• Cereal
• Cake and frosting mixes
• Jello and pudding mixes
• Salsa - hot and mild

Please bring food, gift cards or money to the circulation desk of the law library. Not sure of the need? You can check your library record online for any accrued fines.

Sorry folks, but there has been a run of jackets taken from both the Boley and Watzek libraries of late. Campus security is well aware of the problem and doing what they can, but unattended coats are easy to grab without drawing much suspicion.

Remember, the library, the Law School campus, and Lewis & Clark College as a whole are open to the public most hours of the day. While campus security works to limit the presence of bad-doers on campus, we encourage you to take a few steps to keep your valuables safe:

• Don’t leave anything valuable unattended. Even if leaving your desk for a few minutes grab your purse, coat and backpack, or at the very least leave them with a friend
• Do not leave your wallet or keys or phone in your jacket pocket.
• If you use a laptop, be sure to lock it to your desk at all times. We’ve noted a number of laptops left unattended in study cubicles in the reading room and in Wood Hall. Inexpensive cables are available at the L&C Computer Showroom on the College campus.

We have a wonderful campus, but it is open to the public and it appears that opportunistic thieves have discovered our libraries. Items left unattended for even short periods of time are easy to grab. Use these basic rules - lock your computer with a cable, keep your wallet and keys on you, take your jacket when you leave your desk - and you can deny these ‘criminal elements’ their opportunity to ruin your day.

Be sure to stop by Classroom 1 at Noon, today (Thursday, April 3) for the Career Services program, Legal Research Strategies: What You Need to Know to Succeed in Your Summer Clerking Job.

Guest speakers Laurie Daley, Law Librarian at Bullivant Houser Bailey, PC, Dorene Smith, Law Librarian at Ater Wynne, and Tami Gierloff, Associate Librarian here at the Boley Law Library will tell you all you need to know about legal research for your summer law firm (or public interest or non-profit) clerking job.

Want to make a good impression on your new summer employer?

If you’re a first or second year student, come learn about efficient and effective legal research techniques!

In this session two Portland law firm librarians will provide valuable “insider” information on the reality of performing legal research in law firms. Find out which resources are available, gain practical advice about time-management and cost-efficient searching and discover what former law clerks wish they had known before their clerkships began.

Thursday, April 3
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Classroom 1

The Library server will be offline for a brief while today, March 28, at 5pm. A bit of maintenance; no need to be concerned, nor to send flowers or cards. All will be restored shortly.

Sorry to put a chill on your study plans, but there are some necessary repairs to the heating system serving the Law Library and Wood Hall that just can’t wait. We will be without heat in both buildings from Monday, March 24 through Wednesday, March 26.

So, plan on bringing a warm jacket and perhaps a cap if you will be joining us in the Law Library during the first three days of spring break. Just, you know, keep an eye on that jacket…

A law student’s jacket and wallet appear to have been stolen from the Law Library today. Sadly, this was not the first theft from a campus library this year.

Please keep in mind that the library, the law campus, and Lewis & Clark College as a whole are open to the public most hours of the day.

Be sure to lock your laptop to your desk at all times. We’ve noted a number of laptops left unattended in study cubicles in the reading room and in Wood Hall. Cables are available at the L&C Computer Showroom on the College campus. Be sure to use one, and always take valuable items with you when you step away from your study space, even if only for a very short absence.

For more tips see this Campus Safety Alert issued by L&C Campus Safety a few years ago.

The Law Library will be open during Spring Break ‘08 for all of your research and study needs, Mar. 22 - 30, albeit with the following altered opening and closing hours:

Lewis & Clark Law School and College students, faculty, staff and the legal community

Monday - Thursday
8am - 8pm
Reference Desk: 10am - Noon, 1pm - 4pm

Friday
8am - 6pm
Reference Desk: 10am - Noon, 1pm - 4pm

Saturday, 3/22 - Sunday, 3/23
9am - Midnight
Reference Desk: Closed

Saturday, 3/29
9am - Midnight
Reference Desk: 11am - 5pm

Sunday, 3/30
9am - Midnight
Reference Desk: 2pm - 6pm

Hours for the general public and Patent & Trademark Office will remain on their regular schedule. Regular law library hours resume on Monday, April 2.

Check all of our Law Library Hours, or see when the Watzek Library will be open.

Interlibrary Loan Services at the Boley
:: Online Order Form

Need a book or article (or DVD, or CD, or video, etc…) that we don’t own? Not on campus to chat with a librarian?

No problem. We’ve created an online form for borrowing whatever your research or interests require. Though we’d love to see you, no need to come into the library and fill out a form - just follow these easy steps to get whatever you need:

1. Check to see if we own it
   Articles: Try our Boley Article Finder (for online and print)
   Books: Search our Catalog
2. Try Summit (35 NW law, university and college libraries)
   If you find your book there click the Request button and you’ll have it in 2 days
3. Fill out our Online Interlibrary Loan Form
   We’ll e-mail you when your materials arrive!

If you ever have questions about using these tools or expanding your research just stop by, call or e-mail the Law Library Reference Desk.

For more information on borrowing materials from other libraries see our Interlibrary Loan Services page. Please see the Attorney Services page for more information on Interlibrary Loan Services for practitioners. See our Alumni Services page to view the Law Library materials and services available to Lewis & Clark Law School alumni.