| Among the most valuable resources at any law school is its library. Touro's law library offers students, faculty, and visiting legal professionals an outstanding research facility. Its comprehensive collection includes both print and electronic resources managed by a friendly, highly qualified staff. Housing more than 400,000 volumes and volume equivalents, the library includes essential reporters, statutes, legal periodicals, and treatises. Touro's law library serves as a selective United States Government and New York State Depository. Governmental publications, mostly related to congressional matters and the work of administrative agencies, are easily accessible to students and the public in one convenient location.
The library owns the reported cases of all state and federal courts, session laws, and all state and federal codes. More than 1,400 Anglo-American law and law-related journals and newsletters offer users a broad cross-section of contemporary legal scholarship published by U.S. and international sources. Inter-library material retrieval and visiting privileges at most local law school libraries are just some of the library's many resource-sharing arrangements that help increase student access to information.
An ideal place for research and study, the law library includes a main reading room, several conference rooms, quiet study rooms, a media center, a rare book room, study lounges, and two computerized research centers. Furthermore, the librarians, many of whom hold degrees in law in addition to library science, are available days and evenings to provide guidance with research and to help users access the library's complete collection and full range of electronic legal research services.
Touro's law library offers a wide variety of technological enhancements designed to facilitate the research efforts of its users. Augmenting the library's vast collection of books and microforms are a growing number of databases offering a wealth of on-line materials. The library features the standard legal research services, LexisNexis and Westlaw, as well as other electronic databases. In their first year, all students receive training directly from Westlaw and LexisNexis, which provide passwords and software that allow them to access these research services via the Internet.
Students can also take advantage of workshops in computer-assisted legal research, as well as a full-service computer facility. Each student is assigned an electronic mailbox on the Law Center's network, enabling students and faculty to communicate, share materials and research, and collaborate more efficiently. Students and faculty members also have access to LexisNexis Web Courses and The West Educational Network (TWEN) - allowing multiple users to join together in real-time for coursework and discussions via the Internet.
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