General Library Policies

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LIBRARY POLICIES

The policies set out throughout the library's website are understood to be the official policies of the library.

GENERAL RULES

1. Silence should be sufficient to ensure effective studying.

2. Library staff and others in Ludlow Hall have acute sensitivities to perfumed and scented personal products such as creams, hair products, deodorants, and perfumes and colognes.  Please refrain from wearing such products anywhere in Ludlow Hall, including the library.  Your cooperation is appreciated.

3. Any borrower who has overdue materials from ANY of the UNB libraries will lose borrowing privileges until such items are returned. IMPORTANT NOTE: BORROWING POLICIES AT OTHER UNB LIBRARIES DIFFER FROM THOSE OF THE LAW LIBRARY. PLEASE VERIFY LOAN PERIODS AND OTHER POLICIES WHEN BORROWING FROM OTHER LIBRARIES!

4. Cell phone use is not permitted anywhere in the library.  Please turn off cell phone ringers and please do not make outgoing calls from within the library.

5. Smoking is prohibited in the Law Library. Users discovered smoking will be asked to leave immediately.

6. No food may be brought into or consumed in the Law Library. No beverage containers may be brought into the Law Library except re-usable, metal or plastic containers with spill proof covers. Disposable coffee cups, pop bottles, pop cans, and mugs are not permitted.

7. Only desk attendants and Law Library staff are permitted behind the Circulation Desk.

8. The elevators are for the sole use of Law Library staff (including Student Library Assistants) and users who are physically challenged.

9. Non-staff use of Law Library telephones is not permitted. A pay phone is located in the lobby of the first floor of Ludlow Hall.

10. Law Library carrels and rooms assigned to competitive moot teams are work spaces and must be maintained in an orderly manner. (Information concerning the use of carrels.)

11. Books, papers and personal effects must be removed from unassigned carrels and tables at closing time.  The Law Library staff will not be responsible for loss of same.

12.  Law Library users are expected to re-shelve in their correct location all law reports, statutes, regulations, and bound journals that they use.  Leave government documents, microforms and classified books (those with call numbers on them) on tables or in carrels for library staff to re-shelve. Note: when law students return law reports and bound journals that they have signed out to Law Library reserved carrels or to rooms reserved for competitive moot teams, they are asked to wait while such items are checked in at the Circulation Desk and then to re-shelve these materials in their proper places.

13.  Donations of used law publications, such as books or reports in good condition, are accepted. However, before bringing anything to the library, donors should e-mail the Head Law Librarian or phone 506-453-4734 to discuss the suitability of such gifts for our collection and our retention policies regarding gifts.

LAW LIBRARIAN'S OFFICE

All users may feel free to contact the Head Law Librarian to discuss difficulties or problems at any time. The Head Law Librarian's Office is located in the administration area behind the Circulation Desk. Please ask any staff member for directions.

LAW LIBRARY COMMITTEE

This committee is composed of law faculty and law student representatives.  Its mandates are to consider effective policies and practices for the operation of the Law Library and to advise the Law Librarian. Law students are encouraged to bring any difficulties to the attention of the Law Librarian or any member of the Law Library Committee. A student representative from each of the three years of law school classes is named to the Library Committee; the names of these student members are posted by the UNB Law Students Society as soon as they are available in each academic year.  

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