Overview
The Library houses the largest academic legal research collection in the State of New Mexico with more than 417,000 volumes in print and microform format, placing it in the “large” library category under ABA accreditation standards. The collection is housed on 48,646 linear feet of shelving space—the equivalent of more than nine miles of shelving.
In addition to a virtually complete collection of all New Mexico legal materials, the Library contains the reported cases of the highest courts and most of the lower court reports of all states and territories of the United States, as well as current statutory compilations. There are sets of all federal cases, statutes, treaties, and court rules. In addition, the Library has traditional research aids such as digests, citators, legal encyclopedias, dictionaries, form books, looseleaf services, indexes, and reference works.
The collection includes information in books, journals, looseleaf services, and U.S. government documents, and in various formats such as paper, CD-ROM, video, audio, microfiche, microfilm, and on the Internet. Special collections include Indian Law, Mexican Law, and New Mexico Land Grant information.
Students have access to materials in the Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center, the Centennial Science and Engineering Library, the Center for Southwest Research, the Fine Arts Library, the Parish Memorial Business Library, and Zimmerman Library (Education, Humanities, and Social Sciences).
These collections support the multidisciplinary interests of the students and faculty. Materials that are not part of the Law Library or University Library’s collections are obtained expeditiously for UNM Law students and faculty from other libraries in the state, the country, or the world.
