Starting on Friday December 6th, the Law Library will have extended hours for finals period.  For more detail, check out our detailed hours.

Twenty-six years ago today (December 3rd, 1993), the plans for a new Law Library building were revealed to the BCLS student body via an article in the student newspaper The Alledger. 

Until 1996, the BC Law Library was housed in the Kenny-Cottle building behind Barat House (where overflow materials from O'Neill library are currently stored). Moving the library entailed constructing an entire new building, the plans for which Marc Verzani, 2L, describes in detail in his article.

Verzani does note that the plans were still subject to change in 1993.  For example, no pay phones were ever installed in the library (despite Verzani's hopes), although one was placed in a small room outside of the library front doors.  And some details have changed since the library was built, such as the change from our old copy machines to the three KIC scanning stations now on the second and third floors.  But no worries: we do indeed still have bathrooms and water fountains on every floor!

Take a look at the full article below, and check out the original issue (Volume 14, no. 4) over in our digital archive: https://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/alledger/

The Law Library has all of the latest edition of E&Es on permanent reserve.  Did you know they can also be accessed online?  Check out our A-Z Database List for access to the Wolters Kluwer Online Study Aid Library which also includes Casenote Legal Briefs, Crunchtime, and Emanuel Outlines!

The Law Library will have reduced hours over the Thanksgiving holiday.  We hope everyone has a wonderful break and Thanksgiving! 

• Wednesday, Nov. 27: 7:30am - 3pm|


• Thursday, Nov. 28: CLOSED|


• Friday, Nov. 29: 9am - 5pm|


• Saturday, Nov. 30: 9am - 5pm|


• Sunday, Dec 01: 10am - 11:45pm

Did you know that you can register for classes using UIS online?  Visit registration.bc.edu for access.  For more help, please visit the Student Computing Help Center.

 
Our recent exhibit on food law reminded one of the Law Librarians of this treasure hiding in her office: a cookbook put together by the Southern New England Law Librarians Association back in 1983! 

The volume, Cooks' Reports, (not to be confused with Coke's Reports) collects a variety of recipes from law librarians and lawyers throughout New England. We've collected a few of our favorites* for you to peruse below:

And, of course, we would be negligent to leave out Arthur Charpentier's definitive account of the proper way to prepare a lobster!

 *NOTE: all recipes have been selected primarily for novelty and/or commentary, and have not been tested by the current library staff.  If you do try making any of these, leave a comment to let us know how it turned out!

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did you know that cream cheese legally has to contain at least 33% milk fat? learn about that and more when you check out our latest library exhibit on the law of food! #foodlaw #cheesefacts

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