The Law Library maintains several reserve collections, described below. Reserve collections may consist of both materials purchased by the Library and personal copies.
Course Reserve: The Law Library maintains a limited collection of print resources for use in supplementing course readings. These materials are available for limited two-hour checkout. We discourage students from relying exclusively on Course Reserves for access to casebooks because books are shared among multiple students and will be inaccessible if the student cannot come to campus (e.g., during an illness).
Electronic Course Reserve: In order to support learning on- and off-campus, the Law Library offers limited digital course reserves when requested by faculty and as licenses are available. Casebooks are not provided due to cost and licensing limitations. Electronic materials are usually provided via links on the course’s Canvas page.
Whenever possible, the Law Library is happy to assist faculty by licensing ebook versions of monographs or selections from books for course readings, or by locating unrestricted digital copies of monographs. Licensing options are controlled by the publisher and vary from unlimited access to use by one reader at a time. Some books are not available for any form of digital licensing.
Faculty are encouraged to contact the Law Library at least one month in advance of the start of the semester with a reading list to allow for time to obtain needed resources. Faculty may be provided with a URL to the ebook to make available to students on the course’s Canvas page. Copiers in the law school can also serve as scanners (please remember to include the title page and copyright statement from the source item with materials duplicated for academic purposes). Contact your library liaison (locating materials), Melanie Coleman (ILL & library materials), or Iantha Haight (ebook licensing) for additional assistance.
A/V Reserve: A/V reserve consists of audio/visual items, software, and similar material. These items are located behind the Circulation Desk and may only be borrowed for a limited time. Course reserve and professor files may be borrowed for 2 hours at a time. Audio/visual and software reserve items circulate for 24 hours.
Reserve Room: The Reserve Room is located on the second floor, in room 280 JRCB (near Circulation). The Reserve Room consists of high-use monographs (treatises, study aids, Nutshells, etc.), self-help materials (Nolo guides), six months-worth of newspapers (the Wall Street Journal, the Deseret News, the Salt Lake Tribune, the Daily Herald, the Intermountain Commercial Record), and the Utah law collection — including copies of the state code and Utah secondary sources. The Biblical Law and Benson Collections are also located in the Reserve Room.