Reserve Collection
The Reserve collection is located behind the Circulation Desk. The collection includes all required and recommended books for current courses, as well as heavily used materials such as The Bluebook and the Texas Rules of Form. The Reserve area also houses the library's collection of audiovisual materials.
Course Reserves
Law School or main campus faculty members often give items to the Law Library and request that the Library put these items on reserve under their names. All such items are kept in the Reserve collection. These items may include articles, sample memos, and sample trial and appellate briefs, among other documents.
Checking Out Reserve Items
To check out a Reserve item, please write down the item's call number, then ask the Circulation Clerk to retrieve the item for you. Patrons may not retrieve items from the Reserve collection on their own. Patrons with circulation privileges may check out a Reserve item by presenting their Texas Wesleyan University ID card. Other patrons may check out an item by leaving their driver's license or other valid photo ID with the Circulation Clerk while they are using the item.
Most Reserve items may be checked out for in-Library use only for up to two hours; however, audiocassettes, videocassettes and DVDs may be checked out by patrons with circulation privileges and taken out of the Law Library for 24 hours. Patrons without circulation privileges may use these items in the Law Library only.
Law Review Reserves
The Dee J. Kelly Law Library maintains a small Law Review Reserve collection behind the Circulation Desk. Any materials the Law Library has acquired for Law Review via interlibrary loan will be kept in this collection. If a Law Review member needs to access these materials, the member must ask the Circulation Clerk to retrieve the item for them. All Law Review Reserve books must be used in the Law Library only; articles may be taken from the library and do not have to be returned.
For reference purposes, a binder containing a list of materials currently in the Law Review Reserve collection is also kept at the Circulation Desk.