Additional Services for Law Faculty: Collection Development and Orders
Requests for Acquisitions * Office Copies * Personal Copies
The law library is always happy to receive suggestions from faculty for additions to the law library and faculty library collections. Please send Lisa Arm, Collection Development Librarian, or Marlene Alderman, Associate Director, publishers' notices, reviews, etc. of interesting titles, or call or email them with your suggestions. The publications will be evaluated for purchase, and you will be notified of the decision. Please tell us if you would like to see an ordered book as soon as it arrives, and it will be cataloged immediately and routed to you.
Any titles that are outside the scope of the law library's collections can be interlibrary loaned through the Faculty Liaison (lawcirc@bu.edu, x8879).
If you have any questions about the order status of a book you have requested, please contact Lisa Arm (larm@bu.edu, x8875).
Office Copies and Special Rate Subscriptions
Due to expense and the limitations on access, as a general rule the library does not purchase copies of titles for faculty offices. We hope our liberal library circulation policies will allow you to sign out titles for as long as you require them. If the cost is reasonable, the library will consider purchasing extra library subscriptions to frequently used journals and looseleaf services. If you would like to have a title placed in the faculty library, we would be happy to consider the request.
Faculty can obtain discounted rates for selected Bureau of National Affairs subscriptions, e.g., U.S. Law Week. The library can arrange with West Publishing Company for faculty to receive complimentary subscriptions to the National Reporter System advance sheets. Please contact Lisa Arm (larm@bu.edu, x8875) to request these services or additional information.
Personal Copies
The Acquisitions Department has found that faculty can often purchase personal copies of books themselves less expensively than ordering through the library. The Boston University Barnes & Noble Bookstore at 660 Beacon Street in Kenmore Square gives faculty a 10% discount. Titles not in stock can usually be ordered from publishers in four to six weeks. Please call the Special Order Department (236-7431) to place an order.
Publishers also accept telephone and web orders with billing to a major credit card. The Acquisitions Department (x8875) or the Reference Department (x3151) can give you publishers' addresses and telephone numbers. If titles are no longer available from publishers, Lisa Arm (larm@bu.edu, x8875) can provide the names and telephone numbers of out of print and antiquarian book dealers. Links to several publishers and dealers are available on the web.
If personal titles are hard to obtain or needed on a rush basis, the Acquisitions Department will order copies for faculty. Please contact Lisa Arm (larm@bu.edu, x8875) for additional information on ordering and reimbursement.