Core Collections
The Charles B. Sears Law Library contains 300,000 bound volumes and over 221,000 volumes in microform covering a wide variety of materials on law and law-related subjects. Included in the Federal, New York, and State Core Collections are basic legal research tools: court reporters and digests, session laws and codes, rules and regulations, attorney general reports, jurisdictional encyclopedias and citators.
The collection can be visualized by floors:
- 2nd Floor [ ]
- Federal and New York Core Collections
- Reference
- Reserve
- Special Collections
- Looseleaf Services
- 3rd Floor [ ]
- State Core Collections
- Rare Book Collection
- General Collection (Library of Congress A-J)
- General Collection (Library of Congress KF1-KF199, KFA-KFZ)
- 4th Floor [ ]
- General Collection (Library of Congress KF200-KF9999, KG-KJ, L-Z)
- Foreign Law
- 5th Floor [ ]
- Koren AV Center: Audiovisual and Microform Collections
- United Nations Documents
- 6th Floor [ ]
- General Collection (Library of Congress K31 to KE, KK-KZ)
- N.Y. Legislative Documents
- International Law Collection
- Superceded Collections
- 7th Floor [ ]
The 7th floor is a designated quiet study area. Access is limited to the law school community (students/faculty/staff) by swipe card only. If you are not affiliated with the law school and require access to materials on the 7th floor, please see a reference librarian or circulation staff member on the 2nd floor for assistance.- Oversize
- Library of Congress K1-K30
See Also: The Charles B. Sears Law Library's Special Collections











