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The Law Library's 380,000 volume collection, comfortable building, and service-oriented staff offers students and other users an excellent setting for study and research. The collection offers a strong combination of primary and secondary materials in Anglo-American law, including an extensive collection of reported decisions, statutes, and administrative materials from the U.S. and abroad. Our considerable treatise collection is particularly strong in the areas of constitutional law, environmental law, public and private international law, jurisprudence, legal history, Roman law, and taxation.
Our print materials are complemented by an extensive microform collection; Lexis/Nexis, Westlaw, and dozens of other digital products including access to the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA); a large video collection (which includes both skills-oriented videos and popular films); and, of course, access to the World Wide Web.
As a selective U.S. government depository library, we also offer broad access to publications of the federal government. Our Rare Book Room houses the Thomas Jefferson Collection and hundreds of other rare and valuable items.
The library provides a comfortable and functional environment for study and research. We have over 400 seats, including a combination of large carrels, tables, individual and group study rooms, and comfortable lounge furniture. With two computer labs and a wireless network, we provide wide access to electronic information sources. Our skilled staff of service-oriented librarians provides reference and research assistance to law school faculty and students, to members of the College community, and to the Virginia bench and bar and other library patrons. The librarians serve as legal research instructors in the Legal Skills program, and offer research seminars on a variety of topics. We actively promote computer applications in support of the curriculum and student and faculty research.
As a member of the Consortium of Southeastern Law Libraries, we engage in cooperative interlibrary lending programs with consortium libraries and with other libraries throughout the United States and Canada. This means that we can get virtually anything you need -- even if it's not within our walls -- when you need it.

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