Services for Law Faculty and Staff
Ask a Law Librarian
Please feel free to contact any of our reference librarians with your research assistance questions. We are always happy to see you at the reference desk, but you may also want to stop by one of our offices, or call or email us.
| Librarian | Office | Telephone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Katherine Marsh | Law Library 104 | kmarsh@utk.edu | 865-974-0133 |
| Sibyl Marshall | Law Library 106 | smarshal@utk.edu | 865-974-5906 |
| Nathan Preuss | Law Library 105 | npreuss@utk.edu | 865-974-6736 |
Audio-Visual Support
The library offers an assortment of audio-visual equipment for classroom use. Examples of some of the items available include LCD projectors, laptop computers, video cameras (analog and digital), digital cameras, televisions, DVD and VHS players, ELMO’s/document cameras, overhead projectors, and audio equipment. If you need to use audio-visual equipment for your classroom presentation, moot court team, etc., please contact Jeff Groah at 865-974-6731 (or jgroah@utk.edu) at least 24 hours in advance to ensure that the necessary arrangements can be made.
The library also offers stations for viewing DVD’s and other visual media. These stations are in the Video Viewing Room, which is accessed from the Reserve Reading Room. You will need to request a circulation desk attendant unlock the room for your use. Also, you may wish to check out headphones, which are kept on reserve at the Circulation Desk.
We may also be able to help set up equipment for video recording of mock negotiation sessions, client counseling, and so on. Please contact Jeff Groah at 865-974-6731 (or jgroah@utk.edu) to discuss how we can best meet your needs.
Bluebook Citations (Samples)
This PDF document contains sample Bluebook citations and explanations. You can also find quick examples on the inside front and rear covers of your Bluebook. The inside front cover uses the format preferred in law review footnotes, and the inside rear cover uses the format preferred in court documents and legal memoranda.
Checking out and Renewing Library Materials
With only a few exceptions, UT law faculty may check out items for one calendar year. With that in mind, some of the materials on the first floor are available for 24-hour checkout. Please ask at the Circulation Desk if you have questions about whether a particular item circulates.
Borrowing periods for UT law staff will be either two hours, twenty-four hours, or two weeks, depending on the type and location of the item in question. Some library items do not circulate at all and cannot be checked out by faculty or staff. However, you are welcome and encouraged to use these materials in the library itself. Faculty and staff can renew items by contacting the Circulation Desk 865-974-7419.
Faculty and staff may arrange to have items checked out and delivered to their offices by contacting a reference librarian. We will do our best to have your requested library materials delivered on a same-day basis.
Holds/Recalls
Faculty or staff may request that the library place a hold or recall on an item that is checked out. Once done, the patron who has it checked out may not renew it. When it is returned, it will be held for you at the circulation desk and you will be sent an email notice that your item is waiting for you. Recall requests must be placed in person at the circulation desk, or by email from your official UTK email account. To place a recall by email, email Beth Offshack at boffshac@utk.edu. Please provide as much information as you can (title, author, volume number, call number, etc.) about the title you want held about the title you want held. You may also wish to provide a telephone number so that we can contact you immediately to resolve any issues that arise under the hold.
Computer Support
Copiers
If you have a research assistant, you should make the necessary arrangements for your research assistant to have access to the faculty copier on the third floor of the College building, in the administrative suite; and/or to use the copy service in the basement. We do not have copy facilities in the library to make special accommodations for faculty research assistants.
Disability Services/Accommodations
Faculty Research Assistants
The rules for research assistants vary depending on whether the library in question is the law library or one of the other UT Knoxville libraries.
In order for your research assistant to check out law library materials on your behalf, you should contact a member of the reference or circulation department, and we will place a note in your electronic library patron record stating that your research assistant is allowed to check materials out you. No proxy card is needed. Please do not ask your research assistant to check materials out for you to use under your assistant's personal library account.
Proxy Cards
If, however, you want your student research assistants to be able to check out materials on your behalf from Hodges Library or another UT Knoxville library, you will need to obtain a proxy card for him or her. To learn more about how faculty get proxy cards, click here:
http://www.lib.utk.edu/circ/circ/addservices.html#proxy cards
Printing for Faculty Research Assistants
Please have your research assistant contact one of our Senior IT Technologists:
Daniel Freeman, freeman@utk.edu, 865-974-0614
Joe Gray, jcgray@utk.edu, 865-974-6859
to request a separate lab log-in for your faculty research assistant, so that they may print what is needed without depleting their personal account.
Training for Faculty Research Assistants
The reference librarians can provide additional research training for your research assistant. Just let us know what general types of projects your research assistant will be working on and the types of materials they will be looking for, and we will conduct a customized training session just for your assistant. If you know of any specific sources or methods that you want your research assistant trained in, let us know and we will focus on those.
Find an Article
Food, Drink, and Tobacco Products
Floor Plans
Please contact any member of circulation or reference staff if you need assistance in locating something within the library.
Interlibrary Loan
(Getting Materials from Other Libraries)
If you need a book, article, or other item and the law library does not own it, we can likely help you to borrow it from another library. If Hodges or another UT Knoxville library owns it, you can usually have the item delivered to the your office or mailbox. To have books and other materials delivered from these other campus libraries, use the Library Express Service. Click here to use Library Express:
http://www.lib.utk.edu/circ/express/express1.html
If you have not already used Library Express, you may need to set up an ILLiad account. Look on the right side of the Library Express page for the link to “First Time ILLiad Users.” You may need to edit your profile in order to update your delivery location, which should be your office room number. Library Express also offers electronic delivery of online materials.
If you are looking for an item that is not held anywhere on the UT Knoxville campus, we can try to borrow it for you from another library. To place a request for an interlibrary loan, please contact Sibyl Marshall, smarshal@utk.edu or 865-974-5906, or our interlibrary loan specialist, Martin Grubb, grubb@law.utk.edu or 865-974-1823. Please provide as much information about the item as you can and be sure to include the best way to contact you, so that we can resolve any questions about the item, and also so that we can notify you when it arrives.
Interlibrary loan items generally take at least a week to arrive after placing the request, so please place your requests as soon as possible.
Journals/Moot Court/Mock Trial Teams
Legal Research – Classroom Visits
The reference librarians will be happy to design a legal research component for your class, including any or all of the following: guest lecturing in your class on legal research sources and skills for your subject, library and online exercises for your students, or compiling a bibliography or web-based pathfinder of sources for your students to use.
Lost and Found
Notary Public
The law library offers free notary public service for law students, staff, and faculty. Contact Phyllis McWilliams, pmcwill@utk.edu or 865-974-6547 to make an appointment to have your document notarized. You will be required to present a photo identification for notary public services. This service is only for law students, staff, and faculty
Placing Course Materials, Sample Exams on Library Course Reserve and Online Course Reserve
A faculty member who wants a book, journal article, or other item, such as a video or DVD placed on reserve at the Circulation Desk, should contact Beth Offshack (865-974-7416, boffshac@utk.edu) or Jeff Groah (865-974-6731, jgroah@utk.edu).
We can also place items such as sample exams, articles, and cases on online reserve. You may either send an electronic file or paper hard copy, which we will scan and convert to a PDF document. We will place your items on our server and enter them into the catalog, so that your students can access them via the Course Reserves function in the catalog. We will also send you back a link to the item, so that you can add a link on your course’s TWEN page, your faculty information web page, or elsewhere. Access to online course reserves and sample exams is limited to College of Law users, using a NetID and password.
If you want to place items such as opinions, statutes, or articles on reserve and have the citations but no actual files, please contact a reference librarian. We will work with you to retrieve the items for you and place them on online reserve. Lengthy documents or many citations may require extra lead time in order for us to locate the documents and make them available.
Study Rooms
Occasionally study rooms on the third floor may be available for assignment to faculty members working on group or ongoing projects with extra space needs. To see if third floor study rooms are available for faculty assignment, check with the library director, Bill Beintema, at beintema@utk.edu or 865-974-4381. You may be asked to temporarily clear out the study room so that we can make it available for student use when demand is highest, immediately prior to and during fall and spring exam periods.
Recommend a Book, DVD, or Other Title to Purchase
Request Book/Article/Document Delivery
Contact a reference librarian to request office delivery of a book, article, case opinion, or other document. Please give us as much information as you have about the item you need, and tell us your preferred method of delivery (hard copy, PDF, link to Westlaw version, etc.), which we will try to accommodate. Our goal is to get you any items that we hold in the library within twenty-four hours, but we can typically provide materials more quickly – just ask and we will let you know what the expected delivery timeframe is.
Reporting Library Problems/Concerns
If you have any concerns or questions about library policies or services, please contact the Library Director, Bill Beintema, beintema@utk.edu or 865-974-4381.
Contact Information
The University of Tennessee
College of Law Library
1505 W. Cumberland Ave.
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1810
Phone: 865-974-7419
Fax: 865-974-6595
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