Contents - Faculty of Law - University of Cambridge

opened by Her Majesty the Queen on 8 March 1996, provides a stunning environment for a library and informationservice. There are many features including spacious reading areas with over 400 reader seats, extensive legalcollections, high quality computer facilities (including the Freshfields Legal IT Room) and the Maitland Legal HistoryRoom.The library maintains one of the largest legal collections (both printed and electronic) in the United Kingdom. It plays acentral role in supporting the research and teaching aims of the Cambridge Law Faculty and helps in sustaining theFaculty’s international reputation as a centre of excellence in legal studies. The Squire serves law undergraduatestudents as well as advanced researchers and welcomes visiting scholars from all over the world.The library’s web page may be found at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/The Collections. The library currently holds approximately 190,000 volumes with about 2,000 serial titles (e.g.legislation, law reports and journals). The Squire maintains strong collections for the jurisdictions of the United Kingdomand Ireland as well as extensive research materials for the other major common law countries such as the United States,Australia, Canada and New Zealand. There are also good historical and current collections for South Africa, India,Pakistan and the civil law countries; France, Germany and Italy in particular. Many other countries are also coveredthough some of the material is more historical in nature. Traditionally the library also has strengths in Public and PrivateInternational Law, the European Union, Legal History and Jurisprudence.As a complement to the Squire’s holdings there are a number of other libraries in close proximity that have collectionsrelevant to law scholars. Cambridge University Library houses all UK government official publications as well as UnitedNations and European Union documentation. The Radzinowicz Library at the Institute of Criminology has one of the mostcomprehensive criminology collections in the world. In addition the Marshall Library of Economics, the Seeley HistoricalLibrary and the Casimir Lewy Philosophy Library are all close at hand.Electronic Resources. In conjunction with the printed materials the Squire also makes available to users a variety ofelectronic legal databases including Lexis, Westlaw UK, and many of the Justis products. A range of other indexes,bibliographic databases and full text services are also available. Access is provided for the Internet and e-mail togetherwith word processing and printing facilities. The Squire’s web pages allow access and links to many useful services anddatabases and can be accessed at http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/squire/.Admission and Availability of Materials. The Squire Law Library is open to all holders of the Cambridge Universityidentification card, the Cambridge University Library Reader’s ticket, Cambridge Law Students, Cambridge Graduates,members of the University and others at the discretion of the Librarian.The vast majority of the Library’s materials are available on open access but the Squire is essentially a reference libraryonly and borrowing is not permitted. Faculty members and PhD students have some special privileges and LLMstudents are allowed to borrow from the dedicated LLM Collection on an overnight basis.Areas of the library that are kept on closed access include the Maitland Legal History Room which houses someantiquarian books and early law reports, the Labour Law Collection (which is held in a dedicated store area) and manyold editions of prominent legal texts that are in the basement floors of the building.11