Law Library 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 and New York 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 MAP

Course Reserve
Federal and New York Core Collections
NY Alcove
Legal Analysis, Writing and Research (LAWR) Collection
Reference
Reserve
Special Collections (selected)
Success Collection

3rd Floor MAP

Rare Book Collection
General Collection (Library of Congress A-J, K31-K9999, KB-KE, KF1-KF7680)

4th Floor MAP

Floor closed for construction (as of June 2017)

5th Floor MAP

Koren AV Center: Audiovisual and Microform Collections
Martindale-Hubbell Law Directories
United Nations Alcove

6th Floor MAP

General Collection (Library of Congress KF7682-KF9999, KFA-KFZ, KG-KZ, L-Z)
Special Collections (selected)
Superseded Collections

7th Floor MAP

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
Leisure DVD Collection
Library of Congress K1-K30 (Law reviews)
Study Aids