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Service Guides

In order to assist members' efforts in promoting and marketing library services, the RIPS Patron Services Committee is compiling service guides created by law libraries across the country. This collection includes guides to circulation, interlibrary loan, reference services, and other patron services. If you would like to contribute, please e-mail Maribel Nash with a link to your library's online publications or an attachment of any print guides you would like to share in an electronic format (Word, WordPerfect, PDF, etc.).

Gould Law Library at the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center at Touro College:

King County Law Library:

University of Minnesota Guides:
  • UMN - Library Guide 2007-08 (PDF)
  • Staff Brochure (Word 2003)
  • UMN - Student Guide (Word 2003)
  • UMN - Staff Brochure (Word 2003)
  • UMN - Staff FAQ (Word 2003)

    Supreme Court of Ohio Law Library:

    Penn State Dickinson School of Law
  • Retrieving Articles (PDF)
  • My Library Account (PDF)
  • Illiad EZ Borrowing (PDF)
  • I want it (PDF)
  • eJournals (PDF)

    Core Legal Research Competencies:
    A Compendium of Skills and Values as defined in the ABA Macrate Report.
    A Report by the AALL Research Instruction Caucus

    This report is available in Adobe Acrobat format and also in WordPerfect format.
    ADOBE ACROBAT:
    Download the file: core.pdf (284K). To view and print the file, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can download this free of charge from Adobe.

    WORDPERFECT:
    Download the file: core.zip (73K). You will need to decompress the file using any program that reads Zip files such as PKZip or WinZip. (Mac users can try Zip-It)

    RIPS-SIS Legal Research Text Annotated Bibliography
    Produced Spring 2006

    A review, by three RIPS Colleagues, of eleven selected legal research texts with drafted brief reviews and annotations. For each, they sum up such parameters as length, price, publisher, currency, intended audience, unique appendices, and a series of other factors.

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