| Teaching and Research Support for Faculty
Library staff provide support for faculty teaching and research by creating bibliographies, pathfinders, conducting in-depth research consultations, acquiring appropriate hardcopy and electronic resources, creating electronic research guides, facilitating electronic teaching, providing document delivery, photocopying and interlibrary loans, current awareness, and individual and classroom training in legal research.
The infoEXPRESS service retrieves books, articles, primary and other materials from the Law Library, other campus libraries, online databases and interlibrary loan, and delivers them directly to your office. More details are available on the infoEXPRESS Frequently Asked Questions page.
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Support for Electronic Courseware and Teaching Tools
Gian Medves, will provide individual support for and training in the use of electronic courseware such as Blackboard and Twen. Contact him at gian.medves@utoronto.ca or at 416-978-5537.
Learn Quicklaw/LexisNexis, WestlaweCARSWELL, Internet searching, online journal searching, noting up and legal citation with the help of the library staff. To arrange for training, please contact John Papadopoulos at john.papadopoulos or at 416-978-429.
The Law Library subscribes to a number of electronic subscriptions and online services for faculty use. See the Electronic Library for a complete list of these databases as well as information on how to access each one.
The University of Toronto Library system subscribes to many resources that would be useful to legal research including egal periodicals e-books, e-journals, online journal indexes and online newspapers, etc.
These resources are available on or off campus. When accessing these resources off campus, you must authenticate yourself through the "my.access" service if you use a commercial ISP (Internet Service Provider) by providing either your UTORid and password or your library card barcode and PIN, (the last 4 digits of your staff number, or the PIN you have selected) the first time you use a licensed resource during each web session.
For more information visit : http://www.library.utoronto.ca/services/myaccess/
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Training in the Use of Electronic Resources
Faculty and students are automatically entitled to free academic access to Quicklaw/LexisNexis, WestlaweCarswell and CCH Online, in addition to a number of other services. To arrange legal research training for yourself or your students, please contact John Papadopoulos at john.papadopoulos or at 416-978-4290.
Current Awareness Services
Canadian Abridgment eDigests
A weekly current awareness service that highlights the latest developments in Canadian case law organized by topic and excluding cases that are judged to have little precedential value. Gian Medves sends out a weekly e-mail which includes links to digests for each topic and which in turn provide links to the full-text. Contact Gian Medves at gian.medves@utoronto.ca or at 416-978-5537 to be added to the e-mail list.
my.alerts
Although not specifically legal in scope, the my.alerts service, provided by the University of Toronto Libraries, enables you to set up recurring searches in specific article databases so that you can be alerted on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis if there are any new articles on your topic. From http://main.library.utoronto.ca/myalerts/ you can select the appropriate database. Included databases are: ISI Web of Knowledge, Scopus, ScholarsPortal, Ovid, PubMed.
SmartCILP
A personalized current contents service covering over 500 U.S.-published law journals, organized topically in over 100 subject headings delivered to your e-mail addresses on a weekly basis. To register, contact Gian Medves at gian.medves@utoronto.ca or at 416-978-5537 for a login password that will enable you to set up the SmartCILP service.
SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
The Faculty of Law has site licences for the following networks.
These networks provide an email alert service of upcoming journal articles, seminar papers and "pre-press" draft journal articles. Register at http://hq.ssrn.com/Pub_Login.cfm?type=orglic to create a profile specifying the subjects that you would like to receive. New faculty members should contact John Papadopoulos at john.papadopoulos or at 416-978-4290 prior to registration.
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Previewing New Acquisitions
Faculty members interested in viewing recent library acquisitions can go to the New Titles Page on the U of T Libraries Web site. Search for material acquired in the past month by library or by topic or a combination of the two. You can:
- e-mail results to yourself
- check availability of the material
- sign up for an RRS feed from which you can connect to the library catalogue.
In the alternative, newly acquired library material in hard copy is available for previewing in the reading room on the main floor (row 60). These materials remain on the "New Arrivals" shelf for one week to allow all faculty a chance to look at the material.
Also available on the shelf are yellow request slips that you can fill out to have a book signed out or an article photocopied and sent to you.
Day-to-day reference assistance is provided by a number of law library staff, as set out in alphabetically in the chart below. Staff work together as a team to ensure you receive the best possible service.
Electronic Reserve Readings
Electronic reserves material can vary from full casebooks in electronic format to links to a short list of key material. To place an item on electronic reserve, please contact Susan Barker at susan.barker@utoronto.ca or 416-978-5799.
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Hard Copy Reserve Readings
The library will place readings on reserve at the beginning of term. Please provide John Papadopoulos with a copy of your reading lists as soon as they are available and preferably by July (for a September course) or November (for a January course) so that our staff can evaluate what materials, if any, should be placed on reserve or purchased for your course (your suggestions are encouraged). John can be contacted at john.papadopoulos@utoronto.ca. or at 416-978-4290
Faculty have 24-hour access to the Library via the
link door in the northeast corner of the Law Library on
the third floor. John Papadopoulos will notify you of changes to the confidential link door code
via the faculty e-mail listserv. You may not provide the code to JD students, L.L.M. students, or others who do not have after-hours privileges.
Faculty are entitled to a 4 month loan period with one 4 month renewal at the Bora Laskin Law Library. The Robarts Library provides a 6 month loan period with a 6 month renewal. Other library borrowing periods may differ. Materials borrowed by Faculty are subject to being recalled after the initial 2-week loan period has passed. Once Faculty are notified of the recall (by e-mail), they will have 2 days in which to return the material, after which time fines of $2.00 per day will start to accrue.
Getting A Library Card
Faculty "T-cards" can be used for borrowing, photocopying and printing in most U of T libraries. For more details about getting and using your T-card, visit http://www.library.utoronto.ca/services/card/ .
Regular Adjunct Faculty can present
a letter from the law school administration confirming their teaching
arrangements to the Robarts Library to obtain a T-card.
Library Fines
Regular loans |
0.50/day per book with one day grace |
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Short Term Loans
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0.50/hour to a maximum of $7.50 a day |
Recalled books |
$2.00/day per book |
Replacement Charge |
$145.00 |
Library privileges are withheld when your fines
reach $25.00 or more until fines are paid.
The library reserves the right
to charge fines in addition to the replacement cost.
Law library staff cannot waive your fines. Please speak to John Papadopoulos if you have any concerns with respect to fines accrued at the law library. Refer all other fines concerns to the borrowing library. Pay your fines at the Law Library (even for fines on books from other libraries) as the library retains any fines revenue collected on site.
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Support for Research Assistants
We offer Faculty research assistants: individual or group training as needed, direct billing of photocopying or printing to your account, a reserved open carrel. We also facilitate summer access to commercial online databases.
- Instruction in Legal Research for your Students
First Years
The library provides legal research training for first-year
small groups (in addition to other training offered
to first-year law students). For the small group sessions, we try
to coordinate the "in-library" sessions with the distribution
of the first year written assignments in order for the first-year students
to learn the skills they need to complete the assignments. We can offer additional training for first-year law
students upon request. Contact John Papadopoulos at john.papadopoulos@utoronto.ca. or at 416-978-4290 to set up a session.
Upper Years
Upper-year students will benefit for additional training in specific subjects areas. Contact John Papadopoulos at john.papadopoulos@utoronto.ca. or at 416-978-4290 to set up a session
Questions
or comments about services for faculty are always welcome and should
be directed to the Chief Librarian.
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