Faculty Services and the Faculty Liaison Program
Faculty Liaison Program
Hastings Law Library provides support for the research and teaching needs of full-time, emeritus, and visiting professors through the Faculty Liaison Program, which matches each professor with a librarian-liaison. The goal of the program is to improve resources and services for the academic program through regular communication between the Library and the faculty. If you have any questions regarding the Faculty Liaison Program, please contact the Faculty Services Librarian, To find out who your librarian-liaison is, click here. All starred * * services described below are available for adjunct faculty by contacting the Reference Desk.
Support Services for Research
Reference Services* *
For reference services contact your librarian-liaison directly, or call the Reference Desk at extension 4751, or send an email reference inquiry. or chat with us online.
Training* *
Contact your librarian-liaison for training on Lexis, Westlaw, Westlaw Next, or any of our Electronic Resources.
Interlibrary Loan* *
Request books or articles through interlibrary loan or contact your librarian-liaison or .
Faculty Publications
(ext. 4792) compiles the searchable Faculty Publications database. Contact her to add or make changes to your current bibliography.
Law Review Article Submissions
Faculty can use ExpressO at http://law.bepress.com/expresso/. You can access the institutional account for U.C. Hastings here. Please call Roz Foy (ext. 4935) if you have any difficulties with your ExpressO account.
Lexis and Westlaw Passwords* *
To obtain a LEXIS or WESTLAW password, contact (ext. 4838).
Off-campus access to Electronic Resources* *
Your name and the barcode number on your ID are required to get access to our electornic resources off-campus. Contact the reference desk: 565-4751 if you cannot connect from off-campus.
Library Catalogs * *
Links to the Hastings Online Catalog, WorldCat on FirstSearch, MELVYL, and libraries throughout
the Bay Area. Searching WorldCat allows you to search the online catalogs of almost every library (including law libraries) in the English-speaking world simultaneously. Once you find the book you want, you can click the double library icon 
at the top of the page to immediately request that a copy be sent to you.
Research Assistants
Orientation: An orientation with a reference librarian can be arranged for research assistants. Please encourage your research assistants to contact your for an orientation or for any research concern. In early June, summer research assistants are offered a special group orientation concerning library resources and research.
Borrowing Privileges: Research Assistants should obtain a borrowing card that allows them to check out books in your name. The Research Assistant borrowing card allows for check-out of non-circulating items and extends the check-out period for circulating items. To obtain this card, your Research Assistant should contact (ext. 4768).
Lexis/Westlaw Training: Research Assistants who need basic or specialized training on LEXIS or WESTLAW, should contact their faculty liaison-librarian. Students' individual LEXIS and WESTLAW passwords are not active in the summer months and each student must register with LEXIS and WESTLAW online as a research assistant for summer coverage. Please ask at the Reference Desk if you need help with summer passwords.
Routing
Law reviews, bar journals, subject periodicals, newsletters, and newspapers are available for routing. To be be placed on a routing list for a periodical publication, contact your librarian-liaison.
Book Purchase Requests* *
Request new titles for the collection, or contact your librarian-liaison. Titles may be checked out and routed to you when they are received. The Library does not purchase casebooks. Most casebooks in the Library's collection are received as gifts from the Faculty. The Library no longer purchases multiple copies of books.
Citation Statistics**
Click here for a guide for compiling statistics of scholarly articles, cases and books that cite specific articles and books.
Support Services for Courses
Class Presentations* *
The librarian-liaisons have the expertise to help the students in your seminar, clinic, and lecture courses by providing subject-specific training in the research resources and methods relevant to your course. If you would like to arrange a presentation on legal research for one of your courses, please contact your librarian-liaison. To look at some of the subject-specific class pages we have created for courses at Hastings, click here.
Course Reserve* *
Course reserve requests can be made by contacting (ext. 4768). There are two loan periods for course reserve materials: a 2-hour or a 24-hour loan. A 2-hour loan item must be read or copied in the Library. An item on 24-hour loan may be taken out of the Library. If you are placing books on course reserve, please notify Tony Pelczynski of the titles prior to the beginning of the semester, in order to ensure their availability when classes start.
Casebooks* *
Any casebook in our collection may be put on course reserve. To put any other casebook on course reserve for your class, you will need to leave a personal copy with the Circulation Librarian, Tony Pelczynski, or you may donate a copy of the casebook to the library.
Exams* *
Each semester, the Records Office deposits released Hastings Law exams with the Library - these exams are then hosted on our website. Faculty may also submit supplementary material to the Library (i.e., sample answers, model answers, explanatory memos, exams from classes that you taught at other law schools), to be included with the exam questions. All exams and any related material that the Library receives from faculty members and the Records Office are made available to Hastings students on the Library's web site. Our exam collection covers the current ten years, and is available to students on campus, or off-campus with a Hastings ID name and barcode. Contact Adam Hamilton hamiltoa@uchastings.edu to submit exams and answers, or Chuck Marcus marcusc@uchastings.edu to get further information concerning the exam database.
Alert Services
SmartCILP
This is the online edition of Current Index to Legal Periodicals, which provides topical access to over 500 legal publications, organized into 100 relevant subjects. SmartCILP is published every Friday. The online citations in SmartCILP are directly linked to the full text of LEXIS and WESTLAW. Your online subscription allows you to limit the report sent to your areas of interest. To receive SmartCILP or modify your current SmartCILP record:
- Obtain the faculty authorization code from your librarian-liaison.
- Go to http://depts.washington.edu/scilp/scilp3.cgi
- Fill out the SmartCILP User Profile and enter the authorization code.
- Your uchastings.edu e-mail address must be used in setting up your SmartCILP profile.
- Mark the subject categories and journal titles of interest to you.
SSRN and bepress Working Papers
These web sites give you access to the newest works of scholarship before they are published. On SSRN you can set up subject, author, or repository-specific searches. The results will automatically be forwarded to you. The bepress Legal Repository notification service allows you to get keyword or author notifications sent to you at the schedule you set.
Database Alerts
Lexis, Westlaw, Proquest Research Library and many other of the Electronic Resources to which the library subscribes allow you to set up search alerts. Searches can be customized to your research or course needs.
If you need help setting up any of these alerts, please contact your librarian-liaison.
General Information
Library Hours
Library hours for the current academic year.
Gifts and Donations
If you would like to give books to the Library, contact (ext. 4769).
New Books List
The Hastings Law Library New Books publication is a selected list of recent titles acquired by the Library. This list of new monograph and serial titles includes materials received by the California and the U.S. Documents Departments. The Library's new books list of recent acquisitions is published monthly. It is accessible on the library web site. Faculty are notified of each new issue through their e-mail.
Adjunct faculty should contact the Reference Desk for services marked with **. All ** services are available for adjunct faculty.
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August 24, 2011
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