Reflections on the Law Library

No links here, just a snapshot, as National Library Week approaches, of what goes on in the NESL library at any given moment and the variety of our patrons.

Observed in a 20 square foot area:

• a 70 something attorney pours over a volume of the United States Code Service, carefully recording notes on a yellow legal pad;
• beside him, a 20 something current student prepares for class using a casebook open beside one of the library's circulating laptops: her wireless connection to the NESL network allows her to simultaneously work off a Westlaw TWEN page in one window, and Instant Message in another;
• behind them a 40 something alumni, who has just dashed into the library from his nearby office, stares intently at a document he had retrieved while using our public access Westlaw terminal.

Each of these patrons found needed materials and resources they were able to use comfortably. Not bad.