JANUARY 1981

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路 .. Law School Libraries, continued from page 39 Supplementing the West system are all in-print regional reporter digests. state digests for adjoining states and for states not included in regional digests. In addition, the state law collection includes such specific research aids as administrative rules and regulations and jury instructions.

LIBRARY SERVICES TO THE ARKANSAS BAR Photocopying Cases, articles, statutes and other materials will be photocopied upon request. Both letter and telephone requests are accepted. Cost for this service is 1O垄 per page plus postage. For attorneys' convenience, charge accounts billed on a monthly basis are available. Request for extensive copies and research must be addressed to Pat James or Jackie Gillean. Student Research Pool, at the Law School. The charge for student research service is $6.00 an hour. Time and limited staff do not permit library personnel to engage in research work for attorneys.

Use of the Collection Since the Law Library is currently being operated as a research library, books and materials in the collection must be available for ready reference and use at all times and may not be checked out or removed from the library. Materials not available locally may be ordered from cooperating libraries through the Inter-Library Loan system. Requests should be directed to the Reference Librarian.

Government Documents and Microforms Collections The UALR-Pulaski County Law Library receives federal government publications under the Depository Library Program. In addition to continuing previously held sets of agency decisions and reports. the program has expanded the scope of the collection considerably. New items being received include court and crime statistics from the Department of Justice, 40/Arkansas Lawyer/January 1981

LEAA materials, Census publications. import-export information from the Department of Commerce, and Civil Rights Commission publications. Congressional路 committee hearings are received as well as the reports prepared for use in consideration of specific legislation. and bills and resolutions. Reports and decision from several agencies and courts are included in the collection, such as ICC Reports, Court of Claims Decisions. and FTC Reports. The major federal research tools (current volumes of the Code of Federal Regulations, current issues of the Federal Register, the Congressional Record, the U.S. Code. and the Statutes at Large) are housed in the main library. The balance of the collection is housed in the basement of the Old Federal Building, or on microfiche in the microforms collection. Access to government documents other than specific cases and decisions is obtained primarily through the Monthly Catalog, which indexes publications from all parts of the federal government and the CIS Index which covers all congressional publications from 1970 to date. Both of these indexes are located in the government documents office. which is in the Library Annex at the Old Federal Building. across from the microforms room. The microforms collection is comprised of both microfilm and microfiche (4" x 6" sheets of film). Major collections are the Records and Briefs of the U.S. Supreme Court. Session Laws for all states and territories, the Federal Register from its beginning in 1938 to

the present. To complement the congressional pUblications that are now being received, a collection of pUblications used by the congressional committees in considering legislation since 1970 has also been purchased. thereby greatly expanding legislative history research capabilities. Machines to read and make paper copies of the microfilm and microfiche are housed in the same room. Copies are 10垄 per page. and may be charged to an account in the same manner as photocopies. Computerized Legal Research The WESTLAW computer terminal. conveniently located in an alcove near the fourth-floor entrance to the Law library. is available for attorney. faculty. and student use. Free training sessions are offered on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. for attorneys and students on a sign up basis by calling the law library. After training. a regular fee of $37.50 up to 1{2 hour and $1.25 per minute thereafter is charged for on-line search time. West Publishing Company bills direct to the customer at the end of each month. As an additional service, members of the Student Research Pool do computer searches for attorneys at the regular WESTLAW rate plus their charge of $6.00 per hour. WESTLAW is presently operational from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday. " ....

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