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Welcome to the Library

A Learning Resource Centre

The Law Library || The Collections || EU i || Electronic Legal Research || Arrangement || Circulation || Information and Reference Services || Photocopy || Reading Facilities and Computers || Pamphlets in English

THE LAW LIBRARY

• The primary goal of the Law Library and its staff is to provide library services to the students and the staff of the Faculty of Law. The library service also extends to attorneys and other law professionals in the Bergen and West Coast area - along with foreign guests and visitors.
• The library is situated in the middle of the faculty building and is easy to reach.
• The library staff is there to assist you, in identifying and locating the literature. The library staff consists of lawyers, librarians, clerks and law students.
• The Law Library ("Det juridiske fakultetsbibliotek", UBBJUR) is one out of seven department libraries at the University of Bergen Library ("Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen", UBB).

THE COLLECTIONS

• The Law Library, including the EU i - European Information (formerly European Documetation Centre, EDC), has a collection of more than 100.000 volumes and subscribes to more than 2000 different law journals and law reports - national, Scandinavian and international, including an ever increasing amount of law in electronic wrapping. The collections are located at one floor level (some minor exceptions), and on the web.
• The library procures all "serious" Scandinavian legal literature, as well as books, journals and reports in foreign languages from other countries in Europe, from EU, and from the US.
• Besides from the law, we procure literature from related fields like political science, (legal) philosophy, (legal) history, sociology of law, and criminology.
  Please make acquisition suggestions.

EUROPEAN INFORMATION - EU i

• The Law Library includes EU i - European Information (formerly European Documetation Centre, EDC) at the premises

ELECTRONIC LEGAL RESEARCH

• All databases below have English interface
• Bibsys - the Norwegian universities' online public access catalogue (OPAC)
  • Bibsys Ask
• Subject resources: law
  • Electronic law journals
  • Library Portal: Bibliotekportalen
• Norwegian index to periodical articles (Norart)

ARRANGEMENT

The Library is divided into 57 shelves - the first 23 close to the circulation desk, from 26 through 57 by the windows. In addition comes the separated collection of the EDC.

• The books (monographs) are arranged systematically on shelves 1-23, with the following main parts (see also Pamphlet no 2):

1. JURISPRUDENCE IN GENERAL. [L 1 - L 107]:
   Philosophy of Law. [L 23 - L 27]
   Legal History. [L 40 - L 107]
2. PRIVATE LAW. [L 108 - L 637]:
   The Law of Persons. [L 136 - L 167]
   Contract Law. [L 181 - L 191]
   Property Law. [L 195 - L 253]
   Law of Obligations. [L 254 - L 364)
   Tort Law. [L 365 - L 388]
   Labour Law. Corporation Law. [L 389 - L 444]
   Social Security Law. Insurance Law. [L 445 - L 475.5]
   Trade Law. Sea Law. [L 476 - L 521.5]
   Intellectual Property Law. [L 522 - L 571]
   Family Law. Law of Succession. [L 572 - L 637]
3. PUBLIC LAW. [L 638 - L 1127]:
   Constitutional Law. [L 654 - L 716]
   Administrative Law, general. [L 717 - L 750]
   Administrative Law, special. [L 751 - L 837]
   Criminal Law. Criminology. [L 838 - L 953]
   Procedure Law (civil, criminal) [L 954 - L 1125]
4. PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW. [L 1129 - L 1235]
   European Union Law. [ L 1186, L 1209]
5. ECCLESIASTICAL LAW. [L 1236 - L 1287]
6. OIL AND GAS LAW. [L 1300]
7. LAW AND INFORMATICS (COMPUTER LAW). [L 1400]

• Sources of law and law journals are located on shelves 26-57 (see also Pamphlets no 3 and no 7) (note that EU sources are located in the EDC):

1. LEGISLATION [L 13.1 - L 14.9]
   International. [L 13.1 - L 13.9]
   National. [L 14.1 - L 14.9]
2. REPORTS [L 15.1 - L 16.4]
   National. [L 15.1 - L 15.9]
   International. [L 16.1 - L 16.4]
3. OTHER SOURCES. [L 16.5 - L 16.6]
4. LAW JOURNALS (ALPHABETICAL BY TITLE). [L 17]

CIRCULATION

INFORMATION AND REFERENCE SERVICES

• If you need any information or reference service, please ask at the circulation desk
• Use our Order a librarian-service
• Phone and fax numbers, e-mail- and mail-adresses are found on the home web-page
• Access to subscribed databases on campus only

PHOTOCOPY

• Two specially-designed book-photocopiers are located in the library
• All library materials shall be copied on these copiers
• Please note the copy-rules

READING FACILITIES and COMPUTERS

• The study area is for use of library material and search for law related materials only
• Other study purposes have to be cleared with the library
• Please - no eating or drinking the library

PAMPHLETS IN ENGLISH

• The Law Library: a Learning Resource Centre
• European Information: EU i
• EU and EEA LAW materials in English and German
• Use of printer: how to pay for printouts

• See also pamphlets from UB on Bibliotekportalen and on Bibsys, both in English

WELCOME TO THE LAW LIBRARY!