The Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center is the law library for the University of Florida Levin College of Law. First established in 1909, the law library was created as a resource center and study area for the students.;xNLx;;xNLx;The updated state-of-the-art facilities make UF Law a premier learning environment. A $25 million expansion and renovation project in 2005 made the UF Law library one of the largest in the Southeast and among the top 20 in the country.;xNLx;
Student Services Librarian Shira Megerman wins national award for her idea to give out branded lunchboxes full of LIC goodies to 1Ls at Orientation.
This year, 105 questions from law faculty have been fielded and recorded in our reference database, Gimlet (July 1, 2013 to May 11, 2014). Examples include locating and delivering known items (such as cases and journal articles), technology questions (e.g., password problems, utilizing VPN), or general research assistance (e.g., what database has a particular type of material, whether a particular regulation been amended).
Kaleita helps to manage the contents of the UF Law Repository.
Elliott Kuecker joins our LIC team to fill in for our former stacks manager, Terry Rogers who retired after 30 years of service to UF.
In January 2014, Dean Jerry appointed a committee to plan a reunion of the alumni of the Cuban American Lawyers Program offered by the College of Law in the 1970s to assist immigrant Cuban lawyers with fulfilling the requirements of the Florida Bar so that they could pursue their profession in the United States.
Statistical records show that the LIC Circulation Desk circulated a total of 20,538 loans from January 1, 2014 to January 1, 2015.
The UF Law Repository currently hosts over 550 faculty works and has had over 179,762 full-text downloads to date, 106,000 of those in from 2014 alone.
Ramona Blunt joins the LIC as the new Program Assistant, replacing Suzanne Ramsey who retired.
Faculty members at the College of Law are assigned a “librarian liaison.” Each librarian has 5-7 faculty members for which they act as liaisons for all research and library-related questions. This includes tenured and tenure-track faculty, as well as adjuncts, legal writing, legal drafting, and clinical faculty. As part of their liaison duties, librarians reach out to faculty and offer to meet with them, discuss their scholarship and research needs, and to provide services throughout the year. These services include, but are not limited to:
Captain Christopher Vallandingham also reports to the United States Army. Here, Vallandinham gave a day-long briefing on intelligence law to the members of the 75th Legal Operations Detachment in Camp Parks, California.
