We have a subscription to Hein's Electronic Green Slips Service, a list of bibliographic information for new legal and law-related publications arranged by subject. Faculty will get this periodically via email, along with a request for your review and recommendations. We try to buy materials recommended by faculty (subject to review of alternative formats, cost, and overall collection fit).
If you have any questions about this service, please contact us at DickinsonLawLib@psu.edu.
In addition to your personal library account, you also have a Faculty Office Account for law library materials. Office checkouts do not have a due date, but are periodically inventoried. Your Faculty Office Account means you can use materials owned by the law library on an ongoing basis without renewing the materials or having the materials recalled for use by other library patrons.
You can request items for purchase that may then be placed on office checkout.
This only applies to law library resources. University Libraries-owned materials may only be checked out to a personal account.
Proxy lending is a way for faculty members to authorize their research assistants to check out or place holds on materials on their behalf. Materials are charged directly to the faculty member’s library account.
Proxy Lending Authorization Form
The faculty member placed the hold: The research assistant brings the Proxy Card and their own Penn State ID to the circulation desk. The item will be checked out to the faculty member.
The research assistant placed the hold: The research assistant brings the Proxy Card and their own Penn State ID to the circulation desk and asks that the item be checked out to the faculty member. The item will be transferred from the research assistant's account to the faculty member's account. This can only be done by the circulation desk supervisor, so please check with the individual listed below under Contacts to ensure they will be available.
We cannot transfer interlibrary loan items from a research assistant's account to the faculty member's account. Therefore, faculty members should submit interlibrary loan requests using their own ILLiad account.f
In the alternative, the research assistant can come to the circulation desk when the circulation supervisor listed below under Contacts is available and ask that the interlibrary loan be submitted on behalf of the faculty member.
We still have subscriptions to certain print periodicals. If you would like to review a library-owned journal regularly, please contact us at DickinsonLawLib@psu.edu. You will be added to the routing list of the publication that will be sent to your office via interoffice mail.
When you are finished reading the material, check off your name and place the item in the interoffice mail to be delivered to the next person on the list. After all names have been checked off, the item will be returned to the library via interoffice mail.
All full-time faculty members will receive information to register for access to Lexis, Westlaw, and Bloomberg Law. Certain restrictions apply to faculty who are not full-time, and we can only provide such access to faculty directly affiliated with the law school.
Please email us at DickinsonLawLib@psu.edu for more information.
CALI stands for the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction. Almost all law schools in the country belong to CALI, a non-profit organization that offers interactive online lessons and other learning resources.
To use CALI, you must register for an individual account with a faculty registration code. Please contact us at DickinsonLawLib@psu.edu for more information.