The law library used to be the intellectual soul of every law school. At many, it still is. The entire character of libraries in general has been changing for the last decade or more, and that includes law libraries.
In "the good old days" (when were those, exactly?) lawyers and law students performed legal research using books. Now, most use the internet. As a law student, you will become familiar with the thousands of law books on the shelves of your school's library, but most of your research will be done
No longer are libraries mere repositories of books. Now we find better places to study, some private and group study areas, computer terminals, and often computer centers, with printers, copiers, scanners and everything we need (to avoid the books!). Maybe the law library remains the soul ... but its character has definitely changed.
Take advantage of what your library has to offer.
From time-to-time we'd like to add some links to this page where you will be able to find online "library" resources. You'll see a couple already here ... use the "contact" link at the bottom of the page to suggest others.
What is the Legal Information Institute?
Here's what the site itself tells us . . .
The LII is known internationally as a leading “law-not-com” provider of public legal information. We offer all opinions of the United States Supreme Court handed down since 1992, together with over 600 earlier decisions selected for their historic importance, over a decade of opinions of the New York Court of Appeals, and the full United States Code. We also publish important secondary sources: libraries in two important areas (legal ethics and social security) and a series of “topical” pages that serve as concise explanatory guides and Internet resource listings for roughly 100 areas of law.