Services for Visitors
The Thurgood Marshall Law Library welcomes visitors who need to use our library collection and databases for legal research purposes. Due to license agreements, some databases are restricted to law school students and faculty.
Many other databases are available to on-site library visitors. If you are in the library, please feel free to browse the list of databases
Although the full academic subscriptions to Lexis-Nexis and to Westlaw are
restricted to current students and faculty, a more limited version of
Westlaw
is available to on-site library visitors.
Computer Use Policy for Visitors
Computers and computer network facilities are provided to support the education, research and service mission of the campus and its schools.
Work and personal items should not be left unattended at any computer.
Visitor Workstation
The visitor workstation is available exclusively for academic and legal research purposes.
To use the visitor workstation, patrons must show an ID and sign in with their full name, indicating the time. The librarian on duty will be the only one with the password to this computer. After signing in, patrons may use the public computer for 30 minutes when other users are present. When finished, patrons should log out of the computer and return to the circulation desk to sign-out.
Misuse
Misuse of the public computers consists of any violations of the UMB Information Technology Acceptable Use Policy. Violations include, but are not limited to:
- Computing activity that is not in support of the education, research, and service mission of the campus and its schools.
- Securing unauthorized access to or unauthorized use of IT resources, or facilitating such use or access by another person.
- Altering system software or hardware configurations without authorization.
- Computing activity that is illegal.
- Computing activity that is wasteful of IT Resources
- Software theft or piracy, data theft, or any other action that violates the intellectual property rights of others.
Violations
Non-compliance with Law Library policies is considered disruptive behavior and will result in the loss of Library privileges. Additional sanctions, such as notification of the dean of the appropriate school may be imposed depending on affiliation of the individual or the nature of the violation.
