The University of Texas at Austin

4th floor locations

The Media Center
The media center

McDonald Reading Room - legal periodicals
McDonald Reading Room

Searls Reading Room
Searls Reading Room
Media Center

The Media Center houses over 76,000 titles in microform and audiovisual tape. A microform reader – printer, several cassette tape players and a monitor and VCR are provided to allow users access to the collection.

Included in the over 76,000 titles in the Media Collection are microform versions of English, Scottish and Irish Law Reports, U.S. Congressional bills, oral arguments befor the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs, Texas Supreme Court records and briefs, and newspapers such as The New York Times (1970 - 1998), The Washington Post (1990 - 1998), The Wall Street Journal (1977 - present), Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (1990 - present), Legal Times (1979 - present), Los Angles Daily Journal (1980 - present), National Law Journal (1978 - present), and The New York Law Journal (1976 - present), the papers of Justice Louis Brandeis, the papers of Justice Felix Frankfurter, the papers of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and the papers of Roscoe Pound.

McDonald Reading Room

The McDonald Reading Room houses the Library's collection of legal periodicals.

Searls Reading Room

American law resources, primarily secondary sources, are located in the Searls Reading Room. Materials include subject-specific looseleaf services, legal treatises, hornbooks, law school course study guides, and form books.

Laptop free zone

At the request of law students, the Library has designated a portion of the 4 th floor where laptop computers may not be used.

The Gavel Room

The Gavel Room (which may also be reserved by law students as a conference room) houses the winners of the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Awards.

Conference rooms

The Gavel Room
Small study room
Gavel Room - seats 15-18
Small study room - seats 4
State Ceremonies Room Vanity Fair Room
State Ceremonies Room - seats 12-15
Vanity Fair Room - seats 8-10