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Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law Library |
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The Library Building |
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The Library Collection |
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Library Opening Hours |
The Law Library is located in the handsome Wolffsohn Building, the pre-1948 home of the Jewish National and University Library. When the Mount Scopus campus of the University was reopened, following the 1967 Six-Day War, the building was dedicated as the library for the Felt Center for Legal Studies. The library also serves the Faculty's Institute of Criminology , the Harry Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law, and the The Center for Human Rights.
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The Reading Rooms: |
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The library has eight reading halls: |
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Two on the top floor: |
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- The Main Reading Hall. |
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- The Reserved Books Reading Room - the reserved books collection includes the compulsory reading material, mainly in Hebrew. This material is available for reading on the premises only and may be borrowed only overnight or over the weekend. |
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Six on the bottom floor: |
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- Four reading rooms. |
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- The Blatman Current Periodicals Room. |
The library collection includes about
300,000 volumes, 1,500 periodical and serial titles, and several computerized
databases on a campus-wide network. The library is a part of the
"Aleph" network, a network of the University Libraries in Israel, is
connected to the Lexis-Nexis Computer Service and to the Internet.
Alongside modern materials, the Law
Library collection offers to scholars and the interested public ancient texts in
Aramaic, Turkish and Jewish Law. The entire statute and case law of both the
British Mandatory government and the state of Israel are available for reference
. The collection has an international-comparative focus which compares well with
important law libraries in the world in that respect.
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