Introduction
Boley Law Library wants to meet your faculty needs by providing exceptional teaching resources, research, and access to you. Below you will find information in three areas to help with your library needs. The three areas include: teaching resources, which encompass teaching support and general legal inquiries; research, which supports your scholarship; and access services, which encompass borrowing and technical service areas.
The law library can always be reached by email, chat, or by phone at x6676.
Faculty Resources
In Class Visits
Librarians are available to visit your doctrinal or clinic classes for class-specific research classes. Contact Rob Truman for doctrinal classes and Jim Kite for clinic classes.
Research Guides
We would love to create a research guide tailored to your specific class; here are some examples: International Climate Change Law and Legal Issues in Higher Education.
Database Help
For general database questions, contact the reference desk. Problems with Westlaw, Lexis, or Bloomberg sign ins, contact Meredith Kostek. If you need to request access to a database, fill out this form and access codes will be sent to you.
Past Exams
Students use past exams to study for current exams and test their understanding of a subject. Our current past exams database is listed by professor and by subject. Only current Lewis & Clark Law School community members have access to this database. If you would like your exam to be listed in the past exam database, please contact Meredith Kostek.
Courseware
For online learning management tools resources, contact Meredith Kostek.
- Google Classroom SupportUse this Google Classroom help center to find answers and tips for using Google Classroom CMT.
- Lexis Classroom SupportThis Instructor Training Guide can help you navigate the Lexis Classroom built on the Canvas platform.
- Moodle L&C SupportThis page will help familiarize you with Moodle L&C and is also the page to access your courses.
- TWEN SupportUse this Faculty TWEN Support page to quickly answer any TWEN questions you might have.
Ask a Librarian
The law librarians at Boley Law Library are always happy to help whenever a research question arises. Here are the main ways to get in touch with the law school's librarians.
Scholarship Support
Contact Rob Truman with your research project questions. He will then distribute the work to the research and instruction team.
Research Assistant Training
Meredith Kostek works with Rita Martinez to make sure all RAs have training and support throughout their research assistantship. Training workshops are held at the beginning of each summer and one on one appointments are offered to all RAs as they receive new assignments.
Interlibrary Loan
Sometimes a book or article is not available at our institution. There are several ways the library can get that resource for you. Often a book will be part of our Summit consortium and can be ordered directly through our catalog. We can also go outside our consortium and interlibrary loan (ILL) a book or article for you from around the world. Fill out this form or email the library for help.
Research Databases
- A-Z DatabasesAlphabetical listing of the databases available at Lewis & Clark. This list is searchable by topic area.
- Research GuidesCurated guides that are clearinghouses for sources on a specific topic or area of law.
- Perma.ccAre you working on a law review article? Perma.cc, created by the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, is a free service that allows you to create citation links that will never break and helps authors, editors and publishers protect their work - and their readers - from the ill effects of link rot. (Link rot occurs when a link is broken or dead and the resource is therefore no longer available.) Contact Mari Cheney for more information.
Working Papers and Self Archives
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) are repositories for working papers and self archives of your scholarship. Lewis & Clark is an institutional member of SSRN so you can link your scholarship with the school. Contact Sarah Johnson for help connecting to the LC SSRN network.
Open Access Educational Resources
We encourage you to take a look at our Open Educational Resources (OER) & Affordable Course Materials guide as it highlights OER resources beyond the ones listed below.
- H2O Open Casebooks (Harvard)Make and share open-licensed casebooks and course materials. Over 180 casebooks have already been added to the collection. All materials are licensed to freely copy, reuse, and remix. Cases available via the CaseLaw Access Project.
- OER CommonsGlobally search many open access creators and filter by subject and grade level. Includes textbooks, course guides, PowerPoint presentations, and research guides. Open access creators include Oxford University Press, CALI, and the Saylor Foundation.
- Open Textbook LibraryOpen textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. Includes a growing Law casebook category.
- Semaphore PressCreated by Prof. Loren as a way to keep textbook prices low for students, but for authors to earn royalties, the suggested price per casebook is $30.
- Subject List of Free & Low-Cost TextbooksThis list of free and low-cost textbooks is organized by subject.
- Teaching CommonsOpen educational resources from leading colleges and universities and includes open access textbooks, course materials, lesson plans, multimedia, and more.
Digital Study Aids and Ebooks
Boley Law Library has two digital study aids and ebooks subscriptions with many of the most used classroom aids available for students. Aspen Learning Library (formerly Wolters Kluwer) and West Academic have digital copies of highly rated study materials for students. The Aspen Learning Library has the titles Examples & Explanations, Glannon Guides, and Emanuel's and West has the titles Gilbert Law Summaries and the Nutshell books. These can also be found in the A-Z Database List under 'S' for Study Aid.
Book Purchase
To suggest a book purchase for the library, please fill out this form.
Reserves
To request additional books be put on reserve for your class contact: Sarah Hunsberger.
Interlibrary Loan
To request an article or book through interlibrary loan, fill out this form or contact the reference desk.
Donations
To donate books to the library contact: Sarah Hunsberger. To find out more about what types of materials Boley accepts in donations, read more here.
Library Hours
Summer Session
May 28 - August 5
L&C School Community & Attorneys
Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
General Public
Monday – Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Reference Services
Monday – Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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