- Law students may reserve carrels for a semester at a time. The reservation expires at the end of the semester at which time all library materials must be brought back to the circulation desk to have the location changed or to be checked in. If the carrel is not in use by the middle of the assigned semester it may be assigned to another law student.
- There are carrels on the ground level and basement level available as "reserved carrels". During the academic semesters, these are the only carrels in the library that may be reserved. In the summer, law student research assistants may select a carrel to use as a reserved carrel.
- Reserved carrels are available to upper level students who need to collect library materials to write a seminar paper, note, or thesis. They are also available to law students who are research assistants for law faculty and need to keep library materials in one location.
- If there are more requests for the semester than reserved carrels available, a random drawing will be made from the applications that fit the reservation criteria. If you have had a reserved carrel for the previous semester, you may not be eligible the next semester for a carrel depending on demand.
- All regularly circulating library materials, as well as law reviews and looseleafs, may be signed out to a carrel. No Reading Room material or primary materials from any floor (reporters, statutes, indexes, digests, etc.) may be signed out to the carrel or kept in the carrel.
- All materials to be kept in the carrel must be signed out at the circulation desk. All material signed out to a carrel must remain in the carrel. Make sure a carrel flyer is put in each book checked out to the carrel.
- Regular, circulating materials signed out to the carrel are subject to recall by other patrons.
- Materials not subject to recall (journals and looseleafs) may be retrieved from the carrel by library staff for short-term use (usually 24 hours) of other patrons. A note will be left in the carrel notifying the carrel holder that the library has taken the book.
- Library staff will remove any Law Library materials that have not been properly checked out to the carrel.
- Food is not allowed in the carrels. Any food, open or unopen, found in carrels will be discarded.
- Carrels have no security. Carrel holders are responsible for their personal belongings and all library material they check out to a carrel.
- For a carrel application, please see Janet Gillespie, 352 Myron Taylor Hall, or fill out the online form.
- The reserved carrels for Spring 2008 are all taken!
- Laptops are allowed in reserved carrels and in all carrels on 3, 2, 1, New Ground, and Basement. Laptop use is not allowed on the fourth floor.