D'Angelo Law Library Storage Collections
The D'Angelo Law Library maintains several storage collections. Law materials shelved in storage include: U.S. Supreme Court briefs and records; pre-1978 law treatises, state session laws and official reports for states other than Illinois, California, and New York, faculty and alumni publications, and foreign law materials for Africa, Australia, Canada, Eastern Europe, India, Latin America, the Middle East, and New Zealand. Items located in a storage collection will have one of the following collection locations in the library's online catalog:
- D'Angelo Law Storage Collection (LawStor)
- D'Angelo Law North Annex Collection (LawAnxN)
- D'Angelo Law South Annex Collection (LawAnxS)
- D'Angelo Law Alumni Collection (LawA)
- D'Angelo Law Chicago Collection (LawC)
How do I obtain materials from a D'Angelo Law Library storage collection?
LawStor, LawAnxN, LawAnxS, LawC, and LawA are closed stacks and only available
to the staff of the D'Angelo Law Library. Patrons who wish to consult materials
in those collection locations must page the desired items. Paging for materials
in storage is available Monday through Friday during the day. Paging requests
may be submitted during the evenings and weekends but will not be handled until
the next business day. Patrons may page the materials in one of the following
ways:
- A patron may complete a DLL Collections Paging Request Form at the D'Angelo Law Library Circulation Desk or Reference Desk.
- A patron may complete a DLL Collections Paging Request Form on the D'Angelo Law Library Web site.
- A patron may telephone the D'Angelo Law Library Circulation Desk (773-702-0213) and make a request.
- Law faculty paging may be handled through the bookpage or through a request submitted as above.
- There is no limit on the number of paging requests a patron may submit.
When will an item paged from the D'Angelo Law Library storage collections be available?
LawAnxN, LawAnxS, LawA, LawC paging requests:
- Requests made in person will be paged within an hour from the time the request is made.
- Requests made during the evenings and on weekends will be paged by 10 a.m. the next business day.
- Requests submitted electronically via the web will be paged within an hour of receipt by the D'Angelo Law Library staff.
- If an item cannot be located when paged, the patron will receive notice
by e-mail prior to the time when the patron expects the item to be available.
The e-mail will indicate that a search for the item will be initiated and
ask if the patron wishes to be notified when/if the item is found.
LawStor paging requests:
- Requests received by noon will be paged that afternoon. Retrieved items will be available at the D'Angelo Law Library Circulation Desk by 4:00 p.m. the same day. Requests received after noon will be paged the next morning. Retrieved items will be available by noon.
- If an item cannot be located when paged, the patron will receive an e-mail notice prior to the time when the patron expects the item to be available. The e-mail will indicate that a search for the item will be initiated and ask if the patron wishes to be notified when/if the item is found.
Do materials in D'Angelo Law Library storage collections circulate outside of the library?
Materials located in the D'Angelo Law Library storage collections may circulate upon patron request. The circulation periods will be the same as those for materials shelved in the D'Angelo Law Library stacks.
- For example, primary law materials, such the state legislative materials in LawAnxS, will only circulate to faculty and to law students assigned carrels. Other patrons may page an item for use in the Reserve Reading Room.
- Secondary materials will circulate for one quarter based on the usual guidelines.
- United States Supreme Court Briefs and Records bound and boxed materials will circulate under the same practices as primary materials.
- Upon request, the bibliographers and Head of Public Services may grant exceptions
to these circulation policies.
