Open stacks provide optimum access by the user to the library's collections.
However, to ensure the success of this system, it is incumbent upon the students and faculty to charge out all books before leaving the library, to reshelve books used in the library, and to return Reserve books within the prescribed time limit. Your help in maintaining the library is sincerely appreciated. Due to the specialized nature of a law library, most of the collection is non-circulating. Volumes in multi-volume sets, looseleaf services, reporters, digests, reference materials and periodicals cannot circulate because, by their very nature, each contains material that many patrons may need. CWRU students may check out circulating books at any CWRU affiliated library for 28 days, with one additional 28-day renewal.