It's National Library Week!
What are the 'obvious' services of a library? Study space? (We've got it) Textbooks on Reserve? (Got 'em) Printers and copiers? (Yep, got those too)
Peek behind the curtain - the UNH Law Library is more than just a repository of books; it’s a vibrant hub of resources like books and databases matched with knowledgeable people who can help you access them. We are eager to help you fulfill your goals and have assembled a menu of “Services Beyond the Obvious." Picture this: a place where law students can learn, explore, practice, and debate. The Law Library is not just a place to study but a space to help you learn, collaborate, and innovate.
We hope to see you this week in our busy and noisy collaboration space on the library’s main floor, but we also hope YOU look closer at us to find a treasure trove of resources that go far beyond traditional texts. The library offers cutting-edge legal databases, a growing collection of e-books, board games, topical displays, and research guides to help you succeed. Need help with a research question? The Law Librarians are here to help you find what you need and also to teach you the research techniques to help you next time.
The magic doesn’t stop there. The UNH Law Library is a sanctuary for stressed-out students, offering carrels for intense study, quiet floors, a meditation room, group study rooms and spaces for leisure and lively discussions. Consider borrowing a board game to play with your friends or borrow something from our “Library of Things” such as a charger for your laptop, a full spectrum “happy” light, a book stand, a legally themed movie from our collection (you can play this on our DVD players in any of the study rooms), study aids to help you understand the nuances of hearsay, an iron, or a sewing kit to help you spruce up for that on campus interview.
In every corner, the UNH Law Library proves its services are beyond the obvious, making it an indispensable part of your law school journey.
That's right! Come get your candy of the day and enter to win!
Of course, if you're not on campus, can still enter to win the prize of the day!
If you win, we'll mail the prize to you!
Librarians are asked all the time, “Aren’t you afraid that Google and computers are going to replace you?” We’re not. The reason we’re not is libraries are NOT just about “searching and retrieval.” Yes, we are about helping people find information but, we are also about the “extras” of personal service, we are about relationship—we’re “all about the users.”
Norman Cousins, (author of “The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul”) states it brilliantly when he wrote about libraries:
The Library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one’s devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life.
Librarians are the “midwives” in these “births.” We celebrate your ideas. We’re for you. We’re here when you need us.
The UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law would like to shout out a BIG thank you to our Library Week prize sponsors,
Steve Albro and L
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