Excellent research facilities are provided by the law library,
which is one of the largest in New Jersey. In addition to the
traditional materials, the library subscribes to a number of
computerized research systems, on which all students are trained as part
of the law school's required legal research and writing program, and
provides access to the myriad databases available on the Internet. It
is an owner-member of RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network)
with computer-linked access to the largest research collections in the
nation.
The law school library consists of four floors of
bookstacks, a spacious reading room that provides a wonderful view of
the campus, and a computer lab for LEXIS/Westlaw training. Over 400
individual working areas, carrels, and lounge seats are available
for library users. Consisting of more than 440,000 bibliographic units
in book and microform, the research materials of the collection are
arranged on open stacks to permit direct and convenient access.
Bibliographic access to nearly the entire collection is provided
through INNOPAC, an online computer catalog.
The collection
is strong in its holdings of American, English, Canadian, foreign, and
comparative law. Included in the collection are the standard treatises,
texts, digests, citators, loose-leaf services, specialized annotated
case reports, and encyclopedias. The collection contains the current
revisions and codes of federal statutory law of the United States, and
the 52 state and territorial jurisdictions. These are supplemented by
the judicial opinions of the appellate courts of several states, and
the reports of opinions delivered in the federal courts of the United
States. The law library maintains a collection of regulations, orders,
and reports of both federal and New Jersey administrative agencies.
Law
students may supplement their research by using the Paul Robeson
Library located across the mall from the law building. Access is
available to the vast research collections of the entire Rutgers
library system and of the major research libraries in the United States
through interlibrary loan. Separate working libraries are maintained
for the faculty and the Rutgers Law Journal in the law building.