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Floor Plans

Description of the Law Library Space

The Law Library has three floors, with the main entrance located on the First Floor. Access to the Ground Floor and Second Floor is provided via a central staircase or either of two elevators. Below are descriptions of the physical spaces on each floor of the library, along with link to printable PDFs that provide visual aids for navigating the library.     

Ground Floor (PDF)

Collection Spaces

  • Case Reporters
  • Federal Materials
  • American Law Reports
  • Bound Journals
  • Martindale Hubbell directories
  • Microforms
  • Locked Storage

Work & Study Spaces

  • Journal and student group offices 
  • Technology Training Lab
  • Public computer
  • Printing room
  • Study carrels (1-26)
  • Study Rooms (A-I)
  • Open workroom with remote court pod

Amenities

  • Restrooms
  • Water fountain & bottle filling station
  • Interfaith Prayer & Meditation Room
  • Student Lounge
  • Lockers (L1-L42 & 1-222)
  • Open lounge area

First Floor (PDF)

Staff Spaces

  • Director's Suite (Staff offices)
  • Access Services (Circulation Desk, Interlibrary Loan, and staff offices)
  • Reference Services (Reference Desk and staff offices)
  • Technical Services (Special Collections and staff offices)

Collection Spaces

  • Virginia Collection
  • Reference Collection
  • Reserve Collection
  • George Wythe’s Library
  • Rare Book Room
  • New Books
  • Juvenile Collection
  • Current Journals
  • Self-Help Collection
  • Oversized Collection
  • Atlases
  • Lobby display cases

Work & Study Spaces 

  • First Floor Reading Room
  • Public computers
  • Printing/photocopying room
  • Two open lounge areas
  • Study Room (J)

Amenities

  • Restrooms
  • Water fountain & bottle refill station
  • Self-checkout station
  • Lockers (M1-M35 & 223-282)

Second Floor (PDF)

Collection Spaces

  • Main Stacks (call numbers A-Z), including: 
    • Media & Fiction (call number P), which has been separated from the main collection and placed on low shelving units in the Second Floor Reading Room
    • State Materials (call numbers KFA-KFW), except that Virginia materials have been moved to the Virginia Collection on the First Floor

Work & Study Spaces

  • Second Floor Reading Room
  • Study carrels (64-162)
  • Printing/photocopying room
  • Public computers
  • Study Rooms (K & L)

Amenities

  • Restrooms, including single-user/all-gender
  • Water fountain & bottle filling station
  • Self-checkout station
  • Chess table
  • Lockers (T1-T60 & 283-408)