Library Services

The Reference Librarian is available to provide legal research assistance, to help library users locate information, and to answer questions about the library collection. However, the Reference Librarian does not provide substantive legal advice or interpret legal materials. Reference assistance to individuals outside the Baylor academic community is provided to the extent possible, prioritizing Baylor Law School students and faculty.

The Reference Office is staffed from Monday through Friday during regular business hours. For further information, please call 254.710.4587.

The Circulation Department is located on the first floor, just to the left of the main entrance. The Circulation Desk is staffed at all times. Library users may consult our Circulation staff to check out and return materials, ask about frequently requested items' locations, and inquire about study rooms and other library services. Please see the Borrowing and Interlibrary Loan section on the Policies and Information page for information on borrowing policies.

For more in-depth research assistance, please see the Reference Librarian.

Interlibrary Loan

The Circulation Department provides interlibrary loan services for Baylor Law School students and faculty seeking materials unavailable in our collection. For further information, please see the  Borrowing and Interlibrary Loan section on the Policies and Information page. Please get in touch with the Reference Librarian at 254.710.4587 or the circulation desk at 254.710.2168 for assistance with interlibrary loan requests. Users requesting items will be responsible for any applicable fees.

The Law Library provides a comfortable study space for all law students. Before leaving the library, library materials should be reshelved and personal items removed from all seating and study areas.

The Baylor Law Library has four rooms on the second floor (with more coming soon) that may be used for law students' individual and group study. (203F, 203H, 203M, and 203N)

Important information about the study rooms:

• Law students may reserve these rooms in three-hour blocks per day per student.
• Study rooms can only be reserved for the current or following day.
• Law students must pick up their study room key at the Circulation Desk within 15 minutes of their reservation start time. Anyone over 15 minutes late forfeits his/her reservation time. The study room key must be returned to the Circulation Desk at the end of the reserved time.
• Dry-erase markers are available at the Circulation Desk. If you need an adapter or cable for the technology/monitor in the study room, visit the IT Help Desk in the Student Success Center.
• Only current Baylor Law students are permitted to reserve these study rooms.

Baylor undergraduate and graduate students may use the Law Library for legal research. However, they are not permitted to study in the Law Library and may be asked to leave the premises at the discretion of the library staff.

Click to Reserve a Law Library Study Room

NOTE: After viewing Booking Details, click [CONTINUE] and [SUBMIT MY BOOKING] to finalize your reservation.

A photocopier is in room 106A in the Reserve Area of the Law Library. It accepts coins and $1 and $5 bills. A microform reader-printer is available in the room housing the microform collection. Please contact the circulation desk if you have any problems while using either machine.

Law students are allocated a certain number of print jobs per quarter and may also use the Lexis printer near the Reference Office. For further information, please contact the Information Technology staff in the Academic Success Office.

Please share your report with the Law Library Noise Notification System with complete confidence of anonymity.