Faculty & Staff Resources

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The Law Library provides supervised student research assistants for short term projects, such as:

• Legal research on a variety of specific issues
• Literature review
• Legislative history
• Locating data, cases, statutes, etc.
• Cite checking
• Bluebooking
• Creation of PowerPoint presentations

The Instruction and Faculty Services Librarian can assist you in setting up alert services through:

• Smart CILP
• Bloomberg/BNA
• CCH
• Law360
• SSRN
• Westlaw
• Lexis, or other online legal information resources
• Routing specific print issues

Presentations

• The Reference Librarians are available for presentations on research resources and methodology, targeted to your class. For a full list of librarians by department please visit our website.

Course Reserves

• Make sure resources are available for your students by placing them on Course Reserve. The list of materials currently on Course Reserve can be accessed through GAVEL.
• Make a request to place items on course reserve for your class.

Online Exams Collections

• While the Library no longer collects paper copies of old exams, the Library uploads past exams electronically through GAVEL.
• Watch a video for how to access e-reserves.

Classroom Technology

• The I.T. department has a dedicated instructional technology specialist available to assist you in learning to operate the classroom technology. For assistance, contact lawit@listserv.uga.edu.
• Additionally, the library has an Information Technology Librarian who can assist in facilitating technology-related requests between faculty and the I.T. department.

Scholastica

• The law school has an institutional account with Scholastica, an online service that facilitates submissions to law reviews.  Please contact the Associate Director for Research Services if you need any assistance with submitting your scholarship.

SSRN

• Contact the Associate Director for Research Services for assistance in loading items into your SSRN account at Social Science Research Network.

Digital Commons

• Digital Commons@Georgia Law is the Law School’s institutional repository. The service captures the intellectual output of the Law School, preserves its institutional history, and enhances the access to faculty members’ publications. All faculty scholarship is loaded into the Digital Commons after the applicable copyright permissions are obtained in order to enhance accessibility of UGA School of Law faculty publications.

Faculty Bibliographies

• The Law Library updates the online bibliographies as new items are published. Contact the Associate Director for Research Services to make changes to your online bibliography.

Acquisition & Delivery Requests

• If you have a recommendation for a title to add to the library, or you need an office copy that you would like the Law Library to acquire, please contact the Associate Director for Research Services.
• Request delivery of books, print-outs of articles, etc. by submitting a request to the Associate Director for Research Services. The University of Georgia Main Library also delivers resources to faculty members.