Guide to Paging Materials from the Hastings Collection

Due to the renovation of 200 McAllister, the Hastings Law Library collection has been split into several mini-collections. The two collections accessible to students are:

• Gold Reading Room - 198/3rd floor (GRR)
• First Floor Library - 198/1st floor (FFL)

By using the Hastings Online Catalog locations, you can have a good idea of where a book is now. Items in the Gold Reading Room have a location that says GRR.

If the location of a book or video in the Hastings Online Catalog indicates Circulation, Reference, Course Reserve, or Reserve Stacks, you will find it in the First Floor Library. Other books in the FFL include items with a 5th Stacks location, and their call number begins with the letters A-G, L-N, Q-V.

Books with a location of 5th Stacks, or New Materials Stack, and a call number beginning with H, J, K, or P are not in the FFL, however they are retrievable. If you would like to use any books that are in our retrievable storage collection, you may request for them to be paged and delivered to the FFL.

HOW TO REQUEST ITEMS FROM RETRIEVABLE STORAGE

The fastest way to request for an item to be paged from storage is through the Hastings Online Catalog. Any book that has a location marked 5th Stacks, Tax Alcove, International Alcove, or New Materials Stack, and begins with a call number H, J, K, or P, is eligible to be paged through the Catalog. (Remember all the other letters are already in the FFL.)

Search the Catalog for the book you need, once its full record is displayed, click on the Request button at the top of the screen.

Enter your name as it appears on your Hastings ID, and the next box your barcode (beginning with 25012...). Click "Submit" and then "Request Selected Materials." Normally, an item will be paged and ready for you at the FFL Circulation Desk by the following business day.

NOTE: You must register your Hastings ID as your Library card before you can request books online. The registration process only takes a couple of minutes, just stop by the First Floor Library and ask someone at the Circulation Desk to set you up.

Click here to begin searching the Online Catalog.

The online method for requesting materials does not work for items that are marked Library Use Only or for requesting a volume of a state code. To request these types of materials, stop by the FFL Circulation Desk and fill out a Paging Form. If you are not on campus and don't want to make a trip to Hastings, there is a somewhat complicated way to request these materials electronically. Open this form, fill in the blanks, select the snapshot tool and highlight the entire document (it should automatically copy it to your clipboard), paste the copy into a Word™ document, save it, then send that Word™ document as an attachment to . When in doubt, call a Reference Librarian at 565-4751.

REGIONAL REPORTERS

All of our non-California state reporters have been sent to deep storage, so they are not available for paging. If you would like to see the case as it was printed in the books, Westlaw offers a .pdf option for cases after 1920 in its regional reporters. Once you've pulled up a case in any of the regional reporters (Atlantic, Northwestern, Northeastern, Southern, Southeastern, Southwestern, and Pacific), you can click on the "West Reporter Image" link in the upper left of the screen to open/save the document as a .pdf.

JOURNALS

Current issues of journals are available in the FFL, older ones have been placed in deep storage and are unavailable. Many law-related articles however, are available online (in .pdf format) via HeinOnline. HeinOnline is available from our Subscription Databases page on-campus without a special log-in. Off-campus you can access HeinOnline from the same Subscription Databases page, then enter your name (as it appears on your Hastings ID) and the 25012 barcode when it asks for a log-in.

NON-LAW BOOKS OR DATABASES

You can access a tremendous collection of non-law books and databases by obtaining a San Francisco Public Library card. Any California resident is eligible; this page explains their requirements. The advantages of a SFPL borrower's card are that you can find many books in their collection on both law and non-law topics, and you can search and print from their multiple online resources.

Prepared by Julie Horst / November 2005