Information for academics

This page focuses on subject information specific to academic staff, but also points to other useful pages.

Contacts and liaison

• Your subject contact is Mary Jane Steer Subject Librarian for Law, who is assisted by John Hargreaves and Catherine Dack.
• The Academic Staff Library Representative for Law is Roger George.
• New academic staff are invited to contact the Subject Librarian for Law to arrange a session on how the Library can help you.
• The Wills Library email helpdesk,lib-wills@bristol.ac.uk, is monitored daily, and can also be used to contact the library with any requests and queries. 

Requesting materials from the Library

Books

Recommendations for new book purchases can be made via this form (Word, 33K).  Please return it to the Subject Librarian for Law via email or in print format.

Journals

To request a new journal or database subscription for the library please contact the Subject Librarian for Law.  Please note that cancellation of other title(s) to the same value may be required in order to fund a new subscription.

E-Reserve

If you would like us to scan a book chapter or journal article in order to make it available via Blackboard to students on a particular course, please order the items you require through the E-Reserve tab on Blackboard.

NB We can only scan items which we hold in the library stock and that are not already available electronically. Limits apply to the amount that we can scan for any one course - see the University Secretary's guidelines for further information.

Short Loan items

If you would like a book added to the Short Loan Collection please use this form (Word, 37KB), and email it to lib-wills@bristol.ac.uk

Subject resources

• Recently purchased books can be viewed in the library on the new books display
• Law quick reference tools, law databases (via MetaLib), collections, and Internet links pages provide quick ways of linking to electronic resources

See our Library collections and eResources pages for details of our more general resources & collections, including electronic journals, electronic books and databases.

Inter-library loan vouchers

• If you need an item which is not available anywhere in the library system here in print or online, you can use the Inter-library loans service to obtain it from another library. There is a charge for this service, though you should be able to obtain an Inter-library loan voucher to pay for this from Wendy Brett in Room 3.55 in the Wills Memorial Building

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