Collection Description
The Alexander Campbell King
Law Library at the University of Georgia maintains a collection numbering
in excess of 500,000 volumes and volume equivalents. The
collections of domestic law, both state and federal, are quite comprehensive.
The Law Library is a selective depository for United States government
documents; it is one of only 11 U.S. law school depositories for European
Union documents; and it also maintains an extensive collection of
United Nations documents. The EU and UN documents complement
a well-developed collection of foreign and international law designed
to support the LLM program, the Rusk Center, the Georgia Journal of
International and Comparative Law, and the work of several internationally
acclaimed scholars who are members of the law faculty.
In keeping with its status as the oldest and largest public law library
in the state, the Law Library builds collections for anticipated needs
as well as current needs. The Law Library develops, manages, and stores
collections in an expanding variety of formats; provides access to knowledge
and information in those collections using appropriate storage, access,
and communications technologies; preserves the information in those collections
for present and future generations; and assists and instructs library users
in the use of library resources. As a part of the University of Georgia,
a land-grant and sea-grant institution, the Law Library also serves the
public welfare through participation in cooperative efforts to collect,
access, and preserve information at the regional, national, and international
levels.
Three computer labs permit law
students to use a variety of networked electronic resources.
The Law Library web page provides links to hundreds of web databases
of use to legal researchers, and the library also provides computers
for use by the general public. The on-line catalog, GAVEL, allows
library users and potential users to search Law Library collections
from any computer with Internet access.
Locations
The main floor of the library
contains most of the materials that a student or attorney will regularly
need such as West’s federal and regional reporters, ALRs, and
law reviews. Georgia materials are grouped together at one end of
the reading room. Reference materials, such as the Martindale-Hubbell Law
Directory, may be found near the Reference Desk. The published writings
of the law faculty are placed on display in the lobby outside the Law Library's main entrance.
The Balcony, which overlooks the
Main Floor, contains works on comparative law,
jurisprudence, and U.S. law.
Materials are arranged in Library of Congress classification order.
A separate room on the balcony houses the Louis B. Sohn Collection on International Relations, a special
collection on international law and relations. The core of materials in this collection was
a gift to the Law Library by Louis B. Sohn, a distinguished lawyer
in international law and former professor. His involvement in
the formation of the United Nations, work in maritime law, and interests
in global peace, international relations, and human rights are reflected
in the character of this collection.
The Basement houses materials
from all 50 states, Canada, and the countries of the British Commonwealth,
as well as material on a wide variety of non legal topics. Older American
law titles and superseded works are also located there.
The main floor of the annex (Annex
2) contains the state codes and reporters for the 49 states other
than Georgia. The third floor holds material on international law
and features materials on the European Union and United Nations documents.
Annex 1 holds a large collection of foreign laws and treatises, grouped
in part by call number and in part alphabetically by country.
While many of the Library's U.S. government documents are part of
the classified American law collection on the main floor and balcony,
Annex 1 holds some these documents.
For more information, view our Collection Development Policy
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