1L Survival Guide

Book study rooms and check library hours and events with the library calendar at http://lls.libcal.com.

The library checks out more than books!

• Forgot your cellphone charger, laptop charger, or umbrella?
• Want to get active with a yoga mat, basketball, or soccer ball?
• Want to take a break with a video game, board game, coloring book, or puzzle?

Stop by the circulation desk to check out these wellness and convenience items.

Circulation Desk = Mission Control Post of the library! When you need assistance with anything from booking a study room, or checking out Course Reserves, chargers, book stands, wellness-recreational equipment, or if you have any general questions and/or concerns – come to us. The Circ Team is the library’s front-facing management team. Our team currently consists of Ken, Cameron, Tiffany, Valerie, Suzie and Angie. During the library’s business hours, we are here to assist you with all your operational library needs. Circ Desk contacts listed on the left under Contact the Library. 

The Lack Reading Room is available to you as a quiet study space, 24 hours a day. You can access the room through the library or after hours with your student ID using the key card entry on the patio door. Taking breaks to enjoy something other than your casebook is important. If you're looking for something other than law, check out a book of DVD from our Popular Reading Room just around the corner from the Lack Reading Room. The Popular Reading Room is also where we hold Relax in the Stacks, an event where we bring in a massage therapist.

Welcome to Reference! If you have questions about research, this is the place to come. All of us in the reference department hold both a J.D. and a master's degree in library and information science. Some of us have also practiced law. We also teach your legal research classes, so you'll see one or more of us in class this semester! Reference assistance is offered in person at the reference desk from 12pm-2pm, and again from 4pm-6pm, Monday through Thursday. Between the hours of 10 am and 6 pm M-Th, and 10 am to 4pm on Fridays, reference assistance is available via phone, email, Zoom, or in-person based on the availability of a reference librarian. We're flexible! You can find the contact information for individual reference librarians on the library website. Contact information for the reference department is listed on the left under Contact the Library.

The Library Computer Resources Center (CRC), also known as the Computer Lab, located on the 2nd floor, has 8 workstations, one multi-function color printer, 4 black and white printers, 3 book/document scanners, 1 HP copier/scanner, and additional peripheral devices available for student use. CRC computers provide access to various application software (e.g., Microsoft Office products, Adobe, etc.). Loyola Law School students are allocated a virtual amount of $300 for Printing and Copying per year to be used on the CRC printers, credited to each student's PaperCut account. The CRC Help Desk functions as campus ITS. The staff here facilitate and support student access to tech services such as: your Banner/Prowl account, wireless access, software support, etc. Tech issues? Contact the CRC.

Hannon Atrium We’ve got books, natural light, and study rooms. For books, our California and federal primary source materials are here. Our skylight makes this space underneath it one of our building’s top study areas, although the study rooms along the side rival that popularity. Booking study rooms is simple - and instructions, as well as the link to the reservations page can be found on the library’s website.  Speaking of studying, the library provides a comprehensive study aids collection, both in print and online.  Print study aids are available at the Circulation desk in the library's reserve collection, for brief check-out periods. But unlimited access to several digital study aid packages is also available. Through the stacks is a skybridge that leads to the Casassa building. 

The 3rd floor! The skybridge leads to the 3rd floor of Casassa. It's one of the designated “silent” study spaces in the library. The library has noise zones, and the Atrium area is one of our “quiet” zones which means there’s an expectation that people might have quiet conversations here. And that’s in contrast to our “silent” zones like Casassa, where the expectation is for truly silent study. The other designated silent study space is the basement. So, if you need peace and absolute quiet to study, come up or go down!  Snacks and studying go hand in hand. As long as there is no mask policy in place, you're welcome to eat and drink in the library. We just ask that you be respectful of the space and others. No one wants a sticky or smelly study place, so please clean up after yourself and dispose of any trash in one of the larger trash cans or in a trash can outside the library.