Faculty Services

We welcome your questions and suggestions as to how we might serve you. Reference staff may be contacted by phone, 617-422-7299, by email, via live chat or

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Access and Circulation:

Faculty access to New England Law Materials
In addition to materials maintained in the faculty library on the fourth floor, faculty members may check out New England Law Library materials, including non-circulating and Reserve items. Faculty can also receive a customized notice of new books, and can request checkout and delivery of materials of interest via the monthly email.
Interlibrary Loan
If you need materials from another library, please fill out an online Interlibrary Loan Request for the book or article. Use the form to explain as much detail as required.
Access to Other Libraries
We have a consortial relationship with Nellco schools, Tufts, Boston Regional Library System, and Wentworth. Please see our access policies page, which provides further details. If you wish to visit a library other than one we have an arrangement with, any Reference Librarian would be happy to write you a letter of introduction. For Harvard Law Library, you may gain access by emailing Kristin McCarthy, for a semester or annual pass. Materials may not be checked out of other libraries. Instead, such materials must be requested through New England Law Library's interlibrary loan department.

Current Awareness Assistance

Alert Services via email or rss feed
Sign up for email alert services from Westlaw, Lexis, Google, and BNA databases (US Law Weekly, Criminal Law Reporter, Family Law Reporter, and Labor Law, e.g.)
Keep an eye on scholarly articles as they are published. The Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) database provides access to recent legal journal articles, often before they are available on Lexis and Westlaw. Faculty can obtain an authorization code from a Reference librarian, and then set up a customized SmartCILP search for regular notification. Browse the tables of contents at Washington & Lee Current Law Journal Content service, or subscribe to their rss feed.
Legal News & Blawgs
Do you read Jurist to keep up with legal news, Legal Blawgs or Law Professor Blogs? We can help you identify helpful blogs in your area of interest, and install a Bloglines notifier on your desktop to help with painless current awareness.

Library Acquisitions
Sign up to be automatically notified when new books are received in areas which interest you, based on the monthly publication of Recent Library Acquisitions.

Suggest a new acquisitions: Email Karen Green, or fill out the Purchase Request Form.

Symposia and Conferences
Selected announcements of seminars, symposia, conferences, requests for articles and requests for research proposals are updated monthly.
The Legal Scholarship Blog, produced by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the University of Washington School of Law, also has a good listing of calls for papers, conferences and workshops.

Writing Competitions
Faculty may want to recommend that students who have produced exemplary writings for their classes submit them to be considered in one of the law student writing competitions open to our students.

Reference, Research, and Training Support:

We are available to assist you with your research needs, including compiling bibliographies or web pages, locating materials, and submitting inter-library loans.

We offer access to many subscription databases that you might not be familiar with. We are happy to help you with new ways of accessing electronic resources.

We offer training for your student assistants in either research or bluebook skills, as needed.

We spotlight faculty publications in our library exhibit cases. If you submit a reprint copy of published work to the library, it will enhance our ongoing exhibits on faculty work.