Karen Yap, Law Library

The Law Library will be renovated from July 2000 to the end of 2001. To facilitate these renovations, the Library undertook a major relocation of its various collections. In the first stage of this exercise, all collections on the basement level were shifted to the entrance level.

Older and less used materials, as well as the bulk of the Bound Periodicals Collection were moved to the Closed Stacks.

Please check LINC to confirm if a title or volume is in the Closed Stacks. If so, request the required item using LINC. Library staff will retrieve requests placed before 10.30 am by 1.00 pm on Mondays to Saturdays. There is no retrieval on Sundays and public holidays. Requests placed after 10.30 am but before 3.30 pm on Mondays to Fridays can be collected after 6.00 pm on the same day. Holds placed after 10.30 am on Saturday and any time on Sunday will only be available for collection after 1 pm on Monday. Requests will be put aside at the Loan Counter for five days.

Core journals, like the Cambridge Law Journal, Law Quarterly Review, are still retained in the Bound Periodicals Collection, which are now on the last few shelves closest to carrels numbers 8 to 11. Please note that the Bound Periodicals Collection now contains all journals including the International Law journals which were previously shelved with the International Law Collection.

Open shelves materials (mainly monographs) are now shelved where the bound periodicals were previously.

United States statutes and law reports are now shelved at the first few shelves outside the Photocopy Room. Primary materials of the United Kingdom, Commonwealth and other countries continue after the U.S. Collection. The next collection is the International Law collection. The ASEAN Collection and the Chinese Collection are shelved on the very last row of shelves.

The new locations of the various collections are indicated on the floor plan below.

This arrangement will be maintained until the second phase when the entire collection will be shifted to the basement. Details of this will be given in due course.

Your patience and understanding during this period is greatly appreciated.

Floor plan showing the relocation of collections in Law Library.