About the Law Library

Golden Gate University Law Library
536 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105-2968
415-442-6680

• Law Library hours

• Staff Directory

The entrance to the Golden Gate University School of Law Library is located on the first floor of our San Francisco Campus. A PDF map of our three levels is here. Golden Gate University's Law Library houses the largest legal collection in San Francisco's financial district - more than 373,000 volumes, microforms and electronic resources. The library's holdings include comprehensive series of case law, statutes, digests, encyclopedias, periodicals, and treatises dealing with American law, a strong tax collection, a growing microforms collection, a government documents collection, and a growing body of work in environmental law, law and literature, and international law.

International law holdings target selected Pacific Rim countries, European Union and United Nations materials. The goal of our collection development program is to build a library that supports both our curriculum and the research of our faculty.

In addition, our attorney members will find a rich collection of practice materials, form-books, and loose-leaf services. Codes and statutes from every state are kept current.

Golden Gate University Law Library is not responsible for the accuracy or the currency of information found on the Internet. Our web page and links to other web pages are for information only, and not to be considered legal advice. This Web page is a resource of general information which is intended, but not promised or guaranteed, to be correct, complete and up to date.

Golden Gate University School of Law Library is a designated depository for US Government Documents. The reference desk which is located across from the circulation desk as you enter the Law Library is staffed daily. The Reference Desk hours are:

Monday - Thursday 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday 12:00 AM - 4:00 PM

All of our reference librarians have either a J.D., a Masters of Library Science, or both. The types of questions that our librarians can help you with include:

• Legal research
• Locational
• Lexis/Westlaw/Internet/CD-ROM searching
• Using the library online catalog
• Some non-legal research

The reference area includes many legal and non-legal reference sources including dictionaries, encyclopedias, citation guides etc. Nearby computer terminals also provide access to the online catalog and the Internet. The computer labs in the law library are restricted to current law students.

• Laptop and Wireless Access guidelines.