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Spading Resources

This is a guide for the student editors of the law journals at Alabama Law.

Help by Chatting with a Librarian

Chat with a Librarian

Patrons can ask a law librarian a question by chatting with a librarian. Follow the instructions below to ask a question by chatting with a librarian.

Instructions

To ask a question by chatting with a librarian, find the Chat with a Librarian button on the Law Library homepage (above the hours information on the left).

Fill in your name, your contact info, your question, and click Start Chat.

A reference librarian will chat with you about your question.

Help by Emailing a Librarian

Email a Librarian

Patrons needing basic library assistance such as finding an article or citation or asking a basic reference question can use the Email a Librarian button to send an email to a shared email account.

Instructions

To ask a question using email, find the Email a Librarian button on the Law Library homepage (above the hours information on the left).
This will open a form where you can put your contact information and ask your question or request the document you need.

If requesting a document, please provide citation information such as author, title, year and edition for a book and author, title, journal, and volume and pagination for an article.