Faculty Services

Faculty satisfaction with law library services and collections is very important to the library staff. Please contact us if we can be of assistance in any way to you and your staff.
If you wish to discuss current library policies or if you have suggestions for new services or resources, please contact a member of the law libraries management team: Ronald Wheeler (617-353-8870), Stefanie Weigmann (617-358-4997), Anna Lawless-Collins (617-353-8875), or Kelly Johnson (617-353-8879).

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Services Offered to Faculty

Librarian Liaisons and Research Assistants

The law library offers a variety of services to law faculty research assistants designed to extend privileges that are not normally available to students.

Course Reserves & Exams

The library maintains a core collection of materials in the reserve areas behind the Fineman Circulation desk, including hornbooks, major treatises, study aids, newspapers, and other frequently used items.

Adjunct Faculty

Law faculty teaching courses may add any additional items to reserve they feel would be of interest to students in their classes.

Document Delivery

The Law Library is pleased to provide document delivery services to law faculty. To request document delivery, please call the Circulation Supervisor, at x3-8879 or lawlibraries@bu-law.libanswers.com.

Publications and Bibliography

In consultation with faculty, the library creates article-level links to publications available on SSRN, Lexis and Westlaw, HeinOnline, and the Scholarly Commons.

Purchase Recommendations & Personal Copies

The law library is always happy to receive suggestions from faculty for additions to the law library collections.

Alerting Services

The library produces and subscribes to online publications to inform faculty of new books, articles, and symposium issues.

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