Faculty, staff, and students can easily access print and electronic resources located in the collection. CamelCat, the Library’s online catalog, provides a sophisticated, updated interface for library functions and public access needs. Users can access bibliographic records for all of the Library’s titles both on-campus and from remote locations twenty-four hours a day on the Library’s web site. The Law Library catalog provides bibliographic records for Westlaw, HeinOnline, LexisNexis Congressional, the Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises and the Making of Modern Law: Historic Trials.

Included in the core collection are all materials necessary to support the basic legal education curriculum. Reported decisions of all federal and state appellate courts, federal and state legislation, and administrative rules and regulations are easily accessible.

The Library subscribes to a number of periodicals and looseleaf services. The Library maintains subscriptions to current legal periodicals printed in the English language and to many non-legal and law-related periodicals.

The treatise collection is constantly expanding. This collection is devoted to treatises on all phases of law and other disciplines relevant to legal research. Selected government documents and pamphlets also are available.

In addition to the traditional tools of legal research, the Law Library subscribes to Westlaw, LexisNexis, HeinOnline, Index to Legal Periodicals Full-Text, Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective, CCH, and other online legal research systems that aid in the retrieval of case law, federal regulations, and other primary and secondary source materials. These online legal research systems enable users to access other information banks such as Dialog, Westlaw Business and News Service, and the LexisNexis News Library.

We have an excellent working collection of federal, North Carolina, and other state's materials. Unlike many law libraries, we have continued to collect widely for all of the southeastern states.

As one of the major, legal research facilities in eastern North Carolina, the Law Library also supports the practicing bar and the needs of the general public, to the extent that their needs overlap with the educational mission of the Law School. We provide a wide range of practice materials, such as treatises, form books, explanatory texts and legal research guides for the benefit of the practicing bar and the general public.

To supplement the print collection, the Law Library subscribes to a variety of web databases for accessing primary law as well as secondary sources. Access to these electronic sources supplements our print resources, but these databases do not replace them. With the acceptance of the web as a research tool, our faculty and students are requesting access to electronic sources more than ever. When possible, we add electronic access as well as subscribe to electronic only publications.

A core collection of primary North Carolina materials is shelved on the first floor of the Library. In addition, the complete collection of North Carolina materials can be located on the second level. The collection includes treatises on North Carolina law, practice materials, and CLE publications among other works. Treatises on North Carolina law are cataloged and classified, and are kept with the main treatise collection or on Reserve. The Law Library also houses the North Carolina Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Briefs and Records.

This is a collection of feature films with a law or law-related theme. Included in the collection are the twenty-five greatest legal movies featured in the August 2008 issue of the ABA Journal. This includes such classics as To Kill a Mockingbird, 12 Angry Men, Anatomy of a Murder, Witness for the Prosecution, and Judgment at Nuremburg. For a complete listing of the twenty-five greatest legal movies plus the twenty-five films that received honorable mention click here.

There are also a number of documentaries, trials, and trial advocacy materials in the collection. The films are in DVD format or VHS format. The collection is housed at the Circulation/Reserve Desk located on the second floor of the Library.