About the Law Library

The Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Library is housed in the College of Law building, which is on the Dominican campus. It occupies parts of the first and third floors and all of the second floor of the building, a total of over 50,356 square feet. The Library's full-time staff numbers eighteen, including eight librarians.

Our Collection

The Law Library has a collection of over 371,000 volumes and microform equivalents which has the primary purpose of supporting the curriculum and research needs of the College of Law faculty and students. The collection is comprised of federal and state legal research sources, specific subject materials, foreign, international, comparative, and civil law materials, and law-related books. The microform collection includes United States Supreme Court records and briefs, state bar journals, and legal treatises from the nineteenth century.

Due to the civil law tradition of Louisiana, the Law Library collects substantial materials from civil law jurisdictions, such as France, Quebec and Scotland. The Library is a depository for both federal and state documents. The documents are integrated into the regular collection according to jurisdictional, research and subject matter relationships.

Online Catalog

The Law Library's Online Catalog provides location information for all Library holdings, as well as records of what has been received and what has been ordered. The catalog is an Innovative Interfaces, Inc. INNOPAC system.

The Library subscribes to the LEXIS-NEXIS and WESTLAW databases, which give students and faculty access to federal and state court decisions and statutes, law review and law journal articles and indexes, and some international materials. There is a computer lab in the Library for LEXIS and WESTLAW use and training and offline printers for both systems. Another computer lab housed in the Library has networked personal computers with up-to-date versions of word processing, database management and spreadsheet software and CALI exercises. This lab also provides access to email and the Internet.