Reference Services is a department in the BYU Law Library that offers research help to BYU Law students. Stop by the Reference Desk any time you see an employee there! Reference assistants are second- and third-year law students who can assist you, and the full-time law library faculty members teach the legal research courses and can give you in-depth research consultations to help you.
For reference hours, see here.
BYU Law students may reach out to librarians directly to their individual emails to make an appointment for a research consultation when they need help with their 1L legal research class, an externship or clerkship assignment, or a paper for a class (like Substantial Writing or their law review note). BYU Law students may also email reference@law.byu.edu to make an appointment with a librarian if they don’t have a preference for which one helps them. Simply state in the email that you would like an appointment with a librarian, what your research question is, what your research question is for (which class, job, etc.), and a few times (between 9am and 5pm Monday through Friday) that would work for you to have the appointment.
Librarians can show you databases that may help, places to do a preemption check, how to organize your research, where to find good sources to cite in your footnotes, how to Bluebook cite various sources, and much more.
BYU Law students may also ask reference and research questions via phone (801) 422-6658 and email reference@law.byu.edu. Questions from BYU Law students are prioritized and are generally answered within a few business hours.