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GENERAL INFORMATION

The Law Library's holds nearly 90,000 volumes, with approximately 24,000 of those located at the Desert Branch in Indio. All laws, annotated statutes, and cases from the federal/U.S. courts as well as from all 50 states are available for use in hardcopy, CD-ROM, and/or microfiche.

To see if the Law Library owns specific titles, please check some of the other subheadings in this menu or use our Online Catalog.



LAW REVIEWS

The Law Library subscribes to almost 200 law reviews, bar or legal trade journals in print format, including all those published by the American Bar Association. Complete back runs or a minimum of the past 20 years are available for most titles.

To see if the Law Library owns a particular title, use the in-house listing at either library or search by title in our Online Catalog.


ONLINE ACCESS

The Law Library maintains a home page listing many free (legal) access sites as well as access to to several major online legal subscriptions such as:
  • WESTLAW
  • OnLaw (contains the entire CEB library in a keyword searchable database)
  • Shepard's Citations on Lexis
  • HeinOnline (Full-text access to HUNDREDS of Law Reviews and Journals)
  • InfoTrac/LegalTrac (an index to more than 800 legal journals and newspapers)
  • Kleinrock's Tax Library (tax materials from all state and Federal jurisdications) 


CD-ROM

Publisher's licensing restrictions prohibit the use of these CD-ROM databases through this website. The following databases are available for use on the public computers in both the Riverside and Indio branches.

  • Martin Dean's Essential Courts (information about filing cases in California)


ONLINE CATALOG

The Riverside County Law Library Online Catalog is accessible via the Web.



MICROFORMS

The following items are available in microfilm or microfiche. Copies can be made for $.15/page.
  • Congressional Record, 1976 to date
  • Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1990 to date
  • Federal Register, 1970 to date
  • Code of Federal Regulations, 1970 to date
  • GAO Decisions and Reports
  • Early 1900's of Columbia, Cornell, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Northwestern, Texas,
  • University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Virginia and Yale Law Reviews
  • National Reporter System, 1st Series
  • California Legislature Bill Analyses, 1975-to date
  • California Ballot Pamphlet Voters Arguments, 1883-to date
  • West's Annotated California Codes, 1954 to date


STATE & FEDERAL DOCUMENTS

The Law Library has been a partial State documents depository since 1986, receiving law-related material and annual reports of agencies. The most heavily used portion of this collection are the bills introduced in the Assembly and Senate. Please ask at the Information Desk for assistance with this special collection.

Beginning in the Fall, 1998, the Law Library entered into a partnership with the Riverside City Public Library to house and provide reference assistance with certain law-related federal depository documents belonging to the City. Agency decisions, rules and procedures and tax material are among the items selected to be available at the Law Library. Specific titles can be searched via the City Library Catalog, or the Law Library's Online Catalog.



MANDATORY CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION (MCLE) TAPES AND CDs

Subjects covered by the mandatory continuing legal education tapes include business law, civil litigation/trial practice, criminal, family, real property, torts/workers' compensation, estate planning law, legal ethics/law practice management, elimination of bias/substance abuse and more. Tapes are updated and new titles added annually.

MCLE tape/CD sets may be checked out by attorneys one at a time for one week.  Of course, you don't have to hold onto the tape/CD set for a whole week it's just that if you needed to hold on to it you have a one week to think about it.  I guess the important thing to remember here is that while attorneys with a current bar card can check out MCLE resources from the RCLL, you can only check out one Tape/CD set at a time.  For specific titles, use our Online Catalog or refer to our OFFICIAL MCLE LIST.



CJER TAPES

In 1998, the Law Library became one of only nine depository sites in California for the California Center for Judicial Education and Research videotapes. This specialized video lending library is for the exclusive use of judges, commissioners and justices in the Riverside and San Bernardino Inland Empire area.

 

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