Faculty User Guide: Finding Items In The Library

The Garbrecht Law Library is located on the lower level.

If you have a suggestion for a new acquisition, you can contact anyone on the the library staff.  Faculty requests for new acquisitions are generally honored unless the item is unduly expensive or outside the scope of our collection development policy. The final decision on faculty requests lies with the Director.

Below is a list of the specific location areas:

Faculty Reserves - These materials are the most popular circulating items and are located behind the Circulation Desk for the law library student employee to retrieve for law library patrons.  These materials can be borrowed by law students for 4-hour loan periods.

Special Reserve/ Reference/ Periodicals - Located on the shelves across from the Compact Shelving. The Special Reserve materials can be borrowed by the law community for a 24-hour loan period. The Reference and Periodicals generally do not circulate. Please ask a law librarian if there are questions.

Classified Collection:

Open Stacks - The free-standing shelving in the middle of the room is our open stacks area. The range runs from Library Call # A - KF 9999. 

State Materials - The outer wall of the library space has primarily Maine materials. The range runs from  Library Call # KFA - KFM.

Compact Shelving - The first four units of compact shelving contains the remaining classified collection. The Library Call # range is from KFN - Z.
*Materials in the classified section may have a status of "in-house" use only or "available", which will loan for the full semester. 

Compact Shelving - For Research Only. Please assist anyone attempting to access these materials.

Federal Primary Materials  - The center units of the compact shelving contain the federal primary materials such as Amjur, ALR, United States Statutes at Large, United States Code Service, Words and Phrases, and Atlantic Reporter. Most of these materials are no longer being updated. Please direct students to contact a law librarian. These materials can also be accessed on Westlaw or Lexis. 

Special Collections/ Rare Book/ Maine Law historical materials - The units to the far end for the compact shelving contain our Special Collections and Rare Books.  

Additional Law Library Materials Throughout the Building:

Third Floor

The West Atlantic Digest and the Federal Rules Serves are shelved in the hallway near the classrooms. Both of these sets are no longer being updated. Please refer to Westlaw or Lexis for current information.

Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic - The library maintains a collection of materials for the Clinics. These materials are for Clinic students only. If a student requests materials from this area, please have them contact a librarian or email lawlibrary@maine.edu.
 

Reading Room (Fourth Floor) - Quiet Study Space

United State Code -  historical and present
Maine Revised Statutes Annotated - Current (also see copies in the library for current and historical sets) 
Maine Key Number Digest - No longer kept up to date as of 2021.