Tag Archives: library collection
Current Events: Find News and Research Background
Are you interested in tracking news stories covering current events or finding background sources on issues such as social justice, the executive branch, and COVID-19 and the law? The Law Library can help. We subscribe to several major newspapers and … Continue reading
Electronic Access to Casebooks and the Bluebook
Updated: More Publishers Added! Given the Covid-19 emergency, publishers of law school casebooks and texts have agreed to make many casebooks available electronically to our students for free. The Law Library is working out the details of remote access with … Continue reading
NEW: Free Electronic Study Aids for Chicago-Kent Students
The Chicago-Kent Law Library now offers free electronic access to West Academic Study Aids (WASA). No need to come to the reading room or check out older editions to use Nutshells or Hornbooks now! You’ll also find a wide range … Continue reading
Wall Street Journal – IIT accounts
Learn how you can use your IIT login and CWID to sign up for personal access to the Wall Street Journal and subscribe to email newsletters or alerts. Continue reading
New York Times Customized Subscriptions
Did you know you have access to a free subscription of the New York Times at Chicago-Kent? Did you know you can customize what news you get via email? In an era of information overload, personalized news alerts and email … Continue reading
Summer Construction in the Library
If you haven’t visited our library since exams ended, you may be surprised to see the major changes that have occurred over the last few weeks. As our campus prepares to welcome the IIT Institute of Design to this building, … Continue reading
Edicts from Apartheid
We’ve blogged once or twice before about the books in our Library of International Relations (LIR) collection, built over several decades by Eloise ReQua, a Chicagoan who believed that books could foster better understanding among cultures. One volume that recently … Continue reading
New Students (and Old Ones, too): Take Advantage of the Library’s Access to the New York Times
Welcome, incoming Chicago-Kent 1Ls (and welcome back, returning students). If you’d like free access to the New York Times (and who wouldn’t?), take advantage of the Chicago-Kent Law Library’s subscription. The process is simple: To access the library’s subscription, first create an account using … Continue reading
Archival Chicago-Kent Display
This year marks the 125th Anniversary of the founding of the Chicago College of Law–a forerunner of what would eventually become the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. To commemorate this occasion, the school has put together an array of events, … Continue reading
Washington’s Papers Slept Here
In April, I wrote about the Library of International Relations (LIR), which has been a valuable part of the Law Library’s collection since 1983. Today, let’s take a closer look at one of the gems of the LIR. In the … Continue reading
