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Ground Floor

Historical Collections on the ground floor

Microforms
Government Documents (Federal and Missouri) 
Congressional Record
Federal Register
Code of Federal Regulations
Historical State Materials

First Floor

Circulation Desk on the first floor

Circulation
Phone: 816-235-1650

Reserve Collection
CLE materials
Popular treatises 
Course Reserves 
Videos

Copy Room

Service Desk
5 cents per copy for "do it yourself"
20 cents per copy for assisted

    
Copy cards available
   

Copy Room on the first floor

Reference Librarian on the first floor

Reference Desk
816-235-2271

Librarian on duty 
Monday-Friday 
Hours:  
9:00am - 6:00pm

Email Reference
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Reference Collection

Missouri and Kansas
(core collections)

General reference sources (dictionaries, directories, manuals, etc.)

Kansas Collection on the first floor

Electronic Resource Center 

In the Law School's Electronic Resource Center, there is a Windows local area network consisting of a total of 40 Pentium-class PC workstations for law student use.  The Virtual Law Classroom contains 25 of these machines in a dedicated instructional environment.  An additional 15 machines are available for law student use only.

The Electronic Resource Center is open during the Library’s regular operating hours, except for fifteen minutes prior to closing time when library personnel begin closing procedures.

Second Floor

Students studying on the second floor Tax collection on the second floor

KF 1

Federal Laws

KF 135

National Reporters 
-District and Appellate Federal Courts; State Courts

KF 135

Decennial Digest 
-topical index into all National Reporters

KF 156

Legal Encyclopedias; General Form Books

KF 665

Family Law

KF 1524

Bankruptcy

KF 6279

Tax

KF A - 
KF W

State Laws

Z

Bibliographies

 

Selected Reference Sources / Books

 •  Encyclopedia of Associations, Ref AS22.E5
     -key source for locating organizations associated with specific causes
   
 •   Subject Compilations of State Laws, Ref KF1.N93
     -cites books and articles of states and their laws on particular subjects

 •  Law Library Reference Shelf: 
   Annotated Subject Guide
, Ref KF1.M33
     -resource for librarians building basic collections in the subject of law
     -e.g. Biography; Court Decisions; Dictionaries; Periodicals; etc.

 •  United States Lawyers Reference Directory, Ref KF190.U5
     -directory for Federal and State government information
     -e.g. Executive; Legislative; Judicial; Departments; Agencies

 •  State Legislative Sourcebook, Ref KF1 .S8 1992    
   -state by state listing of legislative facts and information referrals

 •  Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association, Ref KF 193.K26 D47
   -information of importance to the local researcher

 •  Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, State Digest volume
   Ref KF190.M42
  -contains state by state outline of laws by topic area

 •  World Factbook Ref G122 .U56A
   -published by the CIA, this is a resource for country statistics, maps, etc. 

•  AALS Directory of Law Teachers Ref KF266.D533
  -of importance to the researcher seeking an academic referral or expert 

First Floor Enclosed Reference Area

• USCA / United States Code Annotated
 - published by West, this is a good resource for finding code sections and annotated research information (e.g. law reviews; cases; regs., etc)

• USCCAN / United States Code Congressional and Administrative News
 -a source for legislative histories, Executive Orders, Public Laws, etc.

• Missouri Collection  KFM 
 - Missouri Revised Statutes, Vernons Annotated Missouri Statutes
 - Missouri Digest, Missouri Reports, legislative bills, selected CLEs, etc.

• Kansas Collection  KFK
 -Session Laws, Kansas Statutes Annotated, Kansas Digest, Kansas Reports, etc.

• Law Reviews and Bar Journals  K1 - K30