Law Library Feedback Blog

Absolutely!  We welcome feedback at any time. The best way to do this is to submit suggestions or feedback through our Suggestion Box Form to let us know what 's on your mind.

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This entry was posted on April 17, 2012 at 1:20 PM and has received 1271 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

The survey is now closed. Thanks for all the input!

Our annual student survey is a great way for current students to give feedback on library services and resources.  Once each year, we survey current students for input on our materials, services, resources and facilities.  The 2012 law library student survey is going on now, and will end Thursday, April 12.  We encourage all current students to give us your feedback with as much detail and specific suggestions as possible.

One luck student will win an Amazon Kindle Fire.  All students get the satisfaction of telling us what you think.

Thanks in advance for any input during these last few days of our survey.  After the survey closes, you can always stop by and use our Suggestion Box Form to let us know what you think.

This entry was posted on April 9, 2012 at 2:41 PM and has received 1468 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Library hours for the semester are listed in an online calendar on our site, and today's hours continue to appear on our home page and several other pages on the library website.  Note that building hours may differ between our two locations, so we now list these separately, including a note on reference availability in each location.

Continuing a practice begun last semester, we now provide access to the entire Williams building for all hours it is open.   In addition, the E.B.Williams library opens an hour early on many days.

Service hours for both circulation desks are currently the same, and they can be found on the library's online calendar . Note that on some days, building access hours extend longer than circulation service.  For these days, you'll want to be sure to plan when you check out books or access reserve materials.

Enjoy the rest of the semester, and let us know if you have any questions.

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This entry was posted on January 26, 2012 at 2:38 PM and has received 6838 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

During the winter break, the library is completely closed for several days.  On some days,the Wolff Library is closed but E.B.Williams Law Library is open.  Below is a list of the dates we're closed through January 2nd.  We look forward to seeing students and everybody else back on campus in 2012.  If you're in town before then and need to use the library, stop by when we're open.

Here is a list of the dates we'll be closed in one or both library locations:

• Law Library closed (both locations):
  • December 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31
  • January 1, 2
• Wolff Library closed:
  • December 27, 28, 29

This entry was posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:03 PM and has received 8079 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Yes. Beginning today, November 28 until the end of the exam period, December 17, the entire Williams Library is open for the benefit of Georgetown students studying for exams.  Previously, only the Reading Room was open during the library's extended hours.

During the exam reading period, students from other law schools will not be admitted.

Operating hours for both library locations, including reference availability, is found on the Library Hours Calendar.  Details of the limited access period are available on the Library Hours for Exam Reading Period page.

Photo: Open 24 hours / Marcin Wichary / CC BY 2.0

This entry was posted on November 28, 2011 at 4:28 PM and has received 9346 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Yes. In response to a request from a few students, we've added the option to print from both public computers in the E.B.Williams Law Library Atrium. There's no space to add a printer in the atrium, but anything you request to print from these systems can be released at any of several printers in the library. When printing in the atrium, there is a close print station in the computer learning center on the same floor, and you can check our website for a map that lists all printers, scanners and copiers in the library.

Here are two tips on printing in either library location:

1. If you send something to print and the printer isn't working, your print job should show up on all other print queues in the same library building.
2. Every print job requires a name and password, but this can be anything you choose.  There's no requirement that you use your Georgetown NetID.

This entry was posted on September 27, 2011 at 11:30 AM and has received 12674 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Yes. We now have a completely new system for Georgetown Law students to access copies of past exams. Over the summer, the law library worked with the Registrar's Office and developers in the Information Services Technology (IST) department to create a completely new system for accessing past exams.  This includes all prior documents and adds several system improvements.

Access the Law Library Exam Archive to find copies of past exams from 1998 through the present.  This new system includes the more than 8,000 exam documents available through the library's online archive.  All new documents the library receives from the Registrar's Office are added to the new system as we receive them.

In the new system, there's an improved search form, which displays matching professors or course titles as you type. In addition, students will see a personalized list of professors teaching courses for the current term. Fall 2011 data should be active now, so students can log in and quickly see a list of exam documents from your professors. 

An added feature of the system lets you download all documents from a professor/course list in a single zip archive.  For instance, with a single mouse click to 'download all', you can get all twenty documents from Professor Spann's Contracts class or all eighteen documents from Professor Cohen's Property course.

In 2009, 2010 and again in 2011, exam access was the most popular content our students sought on the library's website.  Hopefully the improvements will help make it easier and more efficient for all of our students.

This entry was posted on August 19, 2011 at 11:09 AM and has received 14825 views. There are currently 1 comments. Print this entry.

An after hours book drop is a great idea but impractical at our location, When it first opened, the E.B.Williams Library building offered a drop off slot that emptied into a bin behind the circulation desk. It became a disposal site for just about everything – not just books. Books were regularly destroyed by the additional items thrown in. The library closed the after-hours book drop to protect the collection and keep out trash.

The idea of an after-hours book drop resurfaced again about 6 or 7 years ago. At that time the library polled other institutions about the topic. Several overwhelmingly negative responses included a report of a raccoon that started a family inside the book drop. Others explained that the boxes were once again used as a place for trash.  The idea of a drop box failed.

At any time of the day, you're always welcome to renew your library books online.

This entry was posted on July 1, 2011 at 10:58 AM and has received 17230 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Thanks to new maps, it's now much easier to find library materials, equipment and destinations.  For instance, the bound international law journals are found on the 4th floor of the John Wolff International and Comparative Law Library, as shown on this map:

Find all of our maps online here:  www.ll.georgetown.edu/maps/

These new maps highlight book locations, group study rooms, bathrooms, scanners, printers and many features of our two library locations.  The same maps are used on four touchscreen systems found in the library, and they should work well on a mobile phone or tablet such as an iPad.  It's also possible for us to provide customized map views, so people can easily find all group study rooms on the Williams 4th floor, Lexis and Westlaw printers in Wolff, and even the canteen.

This entry was posted on June 1, 2011 at 3:25 PM and has received 19673 views. There are currently 2 comments. Print this entry.

Return them! Your account will be charged a replacement fee for any books that are not turned in prior to the end of exams, even if they are not officially due by that time. In addition, Student Accounts and the Registrar will be unable to release your final transcript and diploma for graduation until your account is settled.

If you do have books out beyond the end of exams, return them no later than noon on Wednesday, May 18th. The replacement charge will be dropped and your final transcript and diploma will be released in time for the graduation ceremony.

After noon on Wednesday, May 18th, the library will be unable to waive the $120 per book charge for any unreturned books.

Any fines you may have incurred for late books prior to May 1st must be paid at Student Accounts.

Please contact Laura Piacenti at (202)662-9138 or Craig Lelansky at (202)662-9155 with any questions

This entry was posted on May 5, 2011 at 9:42 AM and has received 24308 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.