Mr. Cavicchi, a lawyer, has had significant experience as a legal information specialist. The Intellectual Property Library is a unit under the direction of Library Director Professor Judith Gire . Priorities and goals are developed in conjunction with the Director of Graduate Programs Professor William Hennessey . The Intellectual Property Library services the needs of the students, faculty and members of the Law Center Library. It fills requests nationally for interlibrary loans through the OCLC service.
Services are also available for a fee for all others requesting intellectual property information.
Services include document delivery, reference and research. Representatives from the major Intellectual Property database producers visit the class and provide the most up to date information and training available on these online and CD-ROM products. The Library uses the Library of Congress Subject headings and classification for treatises and AACR2-R format. Card catalogs are produced by OCLC and the Library relies on the card catalog for access to all of the collection except government documents. The IP Library is proudly the home of the Homer and Jean Blair Collection of United States Patent Models .