William Taylor Muse Law Library Collection
The William Taylor Muse Law Library is a spacious and attractive facility in which to study and conduct legal research. Housed in the Law School building, the library features four levels of space with ample seating on all floors. There are a number of group study rooms available for law student use in the library's basement. The online public catalog terminals provide accessibility to the collection.
In addition to the more traditional legal resources, the library also supports computerized research. A student computer lab is located on the library's first floor across from the Circulation Desk. The Law School's network is accessible from the library's 460-plus carrels and via wireless connections throughout the building.
The Law Library's collection includes resources for the law students, law faculty, students and faculty of the University of Richmond, members of the local bar and general public. The library restricts access during examination periods.
The collection of more than 380,000 volumes and volume equivalents contains all federal and state codes, session laws of all states on microfiche, published opinions of all federal and state appellate courts, an expanding collection of legal periodicals and law reviews and a growing collection of treatises, looseleaf services, finding aids and reference works. The library houses substantial British and Canadian collections, United States Supreme Court records and briefs on microfiche, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals records and briefs and an extensive collection of Virginia Supreme Court records and briefs. Additionally, the library's international law collection is growing with an emphasis on European Union materials.
As a selective federal depository library since 1982, the library maintains a strong collection of federal legislative and administrative materials. In addition to these government publications, researchers will find legislative history materials, including full-text transcripts of Congressional hearings available in the microfiche collection. Augmenting the library's traditional collection is the Law School's network. Using the network, faculty and students can access Lexis, Westlaw, other subscription-based online information courses, email and the vast array of information options available on the Internet. In addition to primary resources, Lexis and Westlaw provide access to general newspapers, magazines, wire service reports and non-legal databases.