Cleveland law library

This study initiated service request sheets, evaluated reference services provided by the staff of the Cleveland Law Library Cuyahoga County, Ohio for the time period April-September, Five thousand and fifty-two questions were included in the study, of which 2, were of the type in which reference service was provided. The other 2, questions no reference required were used to compile complete statistics concerning type of patron served, time spent answering the questions, sources utilized, and dispositions of requests.

The ultimate goal of the study was to determine if there were any differences in the way reference service was provided by professionals to paraprofessionals. Feazel was instrumental in negotiations leading to the librarys move, in December, , to the fourth floor of the new county courthouse on Lakeside Avenue.

Feazels accomplishments included significant additions of legal periodicals and Ohio and U. Supreme Court documents and the creation of a new catalog of the collection. The need for additional space to accomodate an ever increasing number of volumes was a concern throughout much of the librarys history, reflecting the growing magnitude and complexity of legal activity during the period.

Expansion of the library to the entire fourth floor of the courthouse occurred in Arthur W. Fiske, Librarian from to , was a leader among law librarians nationally as well as in Ohio, a leader in the effort to compel publication of the Ohio Administrative Code and active in legislative efforts to improve the financing and staffing of Ohio's county law libraries.

The last fifteen years of the twentieth century witnessed a shift in focus from physical materials to electronic resources. In , the Law Library joined the Clevnet consortium for library automation, entering the online era of library services with an online catalog, cooperative cataloging according to the Library of Congress classification scheme, and a structure to facilitate resource sharing. Clevnets membership, mostly public library systems in Northeast Ohio, provides an opportunity for the Law Library to extend its services beyond the legal community.

Login E-mail Search. Contains faculty publications, Cleveland State Law Review and conference materials. The book drop in between the law school and law library is available for returns. There is also a book drop outside the Michael Schwartz Library. Print course reserves will not be maintained in the library.

Professors will inform their classes if they plan to have other types of reserves available for their students. Reference and research support, including things like getting copies of sources you need, navigating databases, Bluebooking, and conducting non-legal research will continue to be provided remotely by email, phone, chat, or via Zoom.