Professors often put required textbooks and other course materials on course reserve for easy access. To see what materials a professor has placed on course reserve, ask at the Library front desk or search the library catalog.

Course reserve items may be checked out for two hours or kept overnight if checked out within two hours of closing and returned within one hour after the Library opens the next morning. A valid UNM ID is all that is needed to check out course reserves.

Study aids are materials used by law students to better understand the cases and key concepts covered in their classes and casebooks.

Procertas LTA is an online training and assessment platform to help you master specific tasks in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Adobe PDF that are common in law practice. The platform also includes modules about using The Bluebook for legal citation.  

There are three stages to each topic: 1) learn about a task in a trainer module; 2) practice the task yourself; 3) demonstrate what you learned in an assessment. If you score at the Qualified or Expert level in the assessment, you earn a certification from Procertas. 

You will receive an activation email soon from Procertas. To set up your access, please follow the instruction in the email. You can read more about Procertas LTA on their website. 

The print academic support collection, including many print study aids, is located on the lower floor of the Law Library, down the stairs to the right of the Library front desk, past the soda machine. The print collection contains Nutshells, Examples and Explanations, and hornbooks. Academic support items may be checked out for two hours, but may be kept overnight if checked out within two hours of closing and returned within one hour after the Library opens the next morning.

When you enter law school you will encounter a new vocabulary.  This First Year Glossary is a quick and helpful guide to the jargon. Other advisable options include asking your professors (you are not the only one wondering what the word means!) or invest in a print copy of Black's Law Dictionary.

A free but older version of Black's can be found online at https://thelawdictionary.org. Current versions of law dictionaries are available on Westlaw and Lexis.