1. Introduction to Library Resources
Marylin J. Raisch, Associate Law Librarian for International and Foreign Law
and featuring your portal to academic success: FALL 2016

2. What We Offer: Services and Resources
To be used for…
Preparing for Class
Preparing for Exams
Researching Papers
And you can start everything at the library’s own web page…

3. It’s the law school’s web address, but with /library/added at the end.
Bookmark us now!

4. Just go to Library link on the law school page!
Forgot to bookmark?
Just go to Library link on the law school page!

5. New Students’ Page
Under Guides> New Students (at the library’s web page- essentials for now).
N.B.: Georgetown Law students may check out books from the general collection for six weeks; reserve materials for three hours; and videotapes/DVDs for three days.

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7. Preparing for Class: Essential Resources
Hornbooks, Nutshells, Treatises: Treatise finder:
Course Reserves: physically only at the Williams location; virtually at by course or by professor’s name; scroll down at this page until you see

8. Preparing for Exams: Helpful Examples
Past Exams! May I please see what kinds of questions law professors ask here?
Of course! Under Student Resources at the Library Home Page, go to to enter your netID and password …

9. Exam Archive: http://screencast.com/t/tU6oDwAd6JK
(requires Adobe Flash)

10. Our search box can take you to all the print materials, databases, and articles to which you have access. Just choose a tab at the top.
However, note that you cannot access the texts that are provided though the Westlaw, Lexis, or Bloomberg Law databases without your password, which has been ed to you.

11. Researching Papers: Supporting Data
Library Resources on-line:
Stay with the law library’s Student Resources page:
Tutorials:
NEW! Tutorial on using Zotero citation manager, prepared by Instructional Services Librarian Jill Smith – access the set of guides at
Research Guides:
Catalogue, Go to Library home page: Our Gulliver catalogue search includes a ‘discovery” mode, and the results will include articles from electronic journals to which we subscribe, links to digital full texts we have captured or preserved, descriptions of books and print serials, and databases aggregating even more texts and information. There are a video tutorials on searching the catalogue and some of our databases-look at the shorter one on Subject-based searching or a longer one on Secondary Sources.
Due Process: The Georgetown Law Library Blog: and linked from the law library home page. New databases and services as well as other items of interest are announced here.
Plagiarism policy: Please see the appendix and definition on plagiarism in the Georgetown Law Student Handbook of Academic Policies, (also in PDF) at pages

12. Databases= Electronic Information of All Types
Journals- listed by title of the journal
Aggregated journals exist in publisher or vendor collections;
All may be accessed through the catalogue
Ebooks- also by title from within larger collections
Videos: our E-Journal Finder and my short video for this presentation: steps on how to make sure you see subscribed Georgetown content on Google Scholar

13. Think Google Scholar is One-Stop Shopping
Think Google Scholar is One-Stop Shopping? Try the OneSearch Catalog Interface

14. Wait…there’s more! More help with research and study from the library-
research consultations- schedule online to get an appointment with a librarian for research help
interlibrary loan- when no Georgetown library has the book or article you need
group study room reservations- study together and compare notes.
paging requests and holds- reserve or have delivered a book from main campus or on our campus…

17. Library Tours this week!
Bring your questions about our cool café, checking out books, loan rules, space.

18. That is all for now- we have a Facebook page and a Twitter feed but we offer something they don’t…
But that you may need…

19. Welcome to Georgetown and Good Luck!
People!!! Here to help.
Welcome to Georgetown and Good Luck!
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