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Student Services: Law Library Collections

A guide to Library Services for TTU Law students

Texas Collection

The Texas Collection includes Texas legislative codes, session laws, journals, and historic compilations; administrative code and regulations; attorney general opinions; case digests; encyclopedias; form books; and municipal codes. The collection is located in two areas:

  • 1st Floor, West Wing holds primary Texas materials, including Vernon's Texas Codes Annotated, the General and Special Laws of Texas, the Texas Administrative Code, and the South Western Reporter (Texas Cases).
  • 2nd Floor, East Wing holds Texas materials not included in the 1st floor collection.

Frequently used Texas secondary materials may also be found in the Permanent Reserve Collection.

Students can also access Texas Government Materials from the following sites:

Study Aids

The law library has an extensive collection of both print and online study aids covering first year courses, advanced requireds, and upper-level electives. Some of the series we have in print include:

  • Questions and Answers
  • Examples and Explanations
  • Siegel's
  • Crunchtimes
  • Nutshells
  • and many more.

Print study aids are located in the reserve area behind the Circulation Desk and circulate 2 items for 5 days.

The library has a number of online study aids that students can access off campus, including:

  • West Academic (including the Exam Pro series, which has practice questions)
  • CALI
  • Wolters Kluwer (including the Crunchtime Series and the Examples and Explanations series)

To access materials off-campus, you will need to use your e-raider username and password or, in the case of CALI, set up an account using the law school's unique registration code.  Clicking on the links above will take you to directions on how to access each resource.

Permanent Reserves Collection

The Permanent Reserves Collection is located behind the Circulation Desk. The Permanent Reserves Collection includes:

  • Hornbooks & nutshells
  • Commercial outlines and flashcards
  • Audio and video tapes, CDs, and DVDs
  • Selected high-use loose-leaf services, treatises, and form books

Microform/Microfiche

The Law Library has an extensive microform collection, which is located in the lower level basement. This collection contains archival collections of:

  • The Code of Federal Regulations
  • Federal Register
  • Congressional materials
  • United States Code Annotated
  • Superseded state statutes and selected state codes (including Texas statutes and codes) 
  • Back issues of most bar journals
  • Legal newspapers

A reader/printer/scanner is available free of charge.

Online Resources

The Law Library subscribes to several legal and law-related online databases. Among the database providers are BNA, CCH, CIS, HeinOnline, LoisLaw, VersusLaw, Bloomberg Law, LexisNexis, and Westlaw. For a complete list of databases, please see the Law Library’s Electronic Resources List.


In addition, law students can also access a wide variety of databases, electronic journals, and e-books through the University Library’s website.

Government Documents

The Law Library serves as a selective depository for U.S. government publications. You can find information on holdings of government documents using the Law Library’s online catalog.

In addition, the University Library houses a full depository, and its resources are available to law faculty. 

Law Reviews and Periodicals

Current issues and bound volumes of law reviews and periodicals are housed in the Lower Level Basement, East Wing. The volumes are arranged alphabetically by title. Law reviews and periodicals can be searched using the Index to Legal Periodicals. The Law Library also subscribes to HeinOnline, a searchable database that contains many law journals, particularly older volumes not carried by either Lexis Advance or Westlaw. The following are a list of databases to search law reviews and periodicals:

Other Collections

General Floor Locations Quick Guide

  • 1st Floor, West Wing—Shelves most of the Law Library’s federal primary source materials, American Law Reports (ALR), Shepard’s Citations, AmJur and selected Texas materials.
     
  • 1st Floor, East Wing— Home to the Collaborative Commons study area.
     
  • 2nd Floor, West Wing—Shelves subject-specific monographs such as Supreme Court analysis/ justices, military law, Indian law, criminal law, evidence, corporate/securities, and Federal practice materials (forms, procedure, discovery), just to name a few.
     
  • 2nd Floor, East Wing—Shelves state materials including most of the Texas Collection as well as medical and international legal materials, among other subjects.
     
  • Upper Level Basement, East and West Wing—Shelves treatises, including many loose-leaf materials, arranged by subject using the Library of Congress classification scheme.
     
  • Lower Level Basement, East Wing—Shelves many non-legal and social science subjects, periodicals and law reviews arranged alphabetically by title.
     
  • Lower Level Basement, West Wing—Shelves congressional documents in Superintendent of Documents call number order. Most other government documents are shelved with the regular collection by Library of Congress classification number