Using the D'Angelo Law Library
- Call Number Guide Provides floor and range location information for specific call numbers
- Law Books in Storage Ask at Law Circulation appears in the Library Catalog record for titles in storage. For access, inquire at the Circulation Desk or use the Paging Form for Law Books in Storage. Some items are in storage pending the opening of the Mansueto Library. Ask a reference librarian for assistance.
- Carrels Carrels are assigned by the library staff to each journal. Your editors will assign carrel space to you for cite-checking and other journal projects. Primary law books (case reporters, codes, legislative sets), bound law journals, and non-circulating treatises may be checked out to a carrel. Materials from other campus libraries also may be checked out to carrels. Books obtained on interlibrary loan may not be checked out to carrels.
- Search Forms You may use the online form or fill out a search form at the Circulation Desk for items that are not on the shelf and not checked out in the Library Catalog.
- Research Guides Available on the D'Angelo Law Library web page for legislative history, congressional, supreme court, corporate and securities, treaties, intellectual property and other areas of legal research.
- Library Collections and Subjects Provides links to subject web pages (economics, history, sociology, etc.) created by librarian specialists in other libraries on campus.
Finding Books
- Lens University of Chicago Library search tool for locating books and other resources in the Library's collections as well as electronic resources licensed by and created by the Library.
- Library Catalog Your starting point for identifying and locating books, treatises and journal titles in the print and electronic collections of the D'Angelo Law Library and other campus libraries.
- Worldcat A union catalog containing the holding of thousands of libraries worldwide. Use to determine other libraries that own a resource and for initiating an interlibrary loan request.
Finding Journal Articles
For more information about finding journal articles, consult the Library's Electronic Resources page. To locate full-text of journal articles, use the E-journals list or Lens to determine which Library databases contain full-text of a journal.
- HeinOnline Law Journal Library

- Academic Search Premier

- JSTOR

- Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
Covers July 1981 to present - Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Retrospective
Covers 1908-June 1981 - LegalTrac

- BNA Databases

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