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Library Privileges

Visit the Borrowing Materials Guide for more information about your borrowing privileges and demerits.

Journals, Law Reviews, and Periodicals

Click the link below to search all journals and periodicals owned in print and electronically by Law Library and the Dulaney-Browne Library.

ISSN and ISBN Searching

The ISBN is an International Standard Book Number. It appears as a 10 or 13 digit number. Many materials in our collection can be found by doing a keyword search for the ISBN. Materials published before 1961 may not have an ISBN. The ISSN is an International Standard Serial Number. It appears as two groups of four digits separated by a hyphen. Almost every periodical, law review, and journal in our catalog can be found by doing a keyword search for the ISSN.

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Getting Started

All of the print and electronic materials owned by the Chickasaw Nation Law Library at Oklahoma City University School of Law are listed in the online Catalog available through the library's homepage. A screenshot of the library homepage catalog search.

Reading Catalog Records

Each electronic and print item owned by the Law Library will have a record in the Catalog. Each record contains information about the title, author, subject, publisher, shelving location, and call number. The record may also include the item's table of contents and information about the item's physical characteristics like size and number of pages.

Screenshot of the catalog record for The Essential Scalia

Title

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The title will be listed twice. Once at the very top of the catalog record, and the second will be a link near the bottom of the catalog record. The title on top will be in bold and large text than the rest of the catalog data. The second will be a link and listed to find additional formats or copies of the title. 

Author

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The author's name will also be a link. Use this link to find other titles by the same author.

Online Links

Electronic resources will be linked below the author and title information. Some materials will only be available to law students and faculty and will require a login. For more information about available databases, please visit the Chickasaw Nation Law Library Databases page.

Holdings Information

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The box on the right side of the screen labeled Access Options will tell you the location of an item and whether the item is checked out or on the shelf. Some items will have multiple locations. This means we have more than one copy of the item.

You will also see a Map It! button. Click on this button to see where in the library the item is shelved.

screenshot of library map, with the material's call number and location information on the left side of the screen

You can learn more about finding books on the shelf  Law Library Services and Policies Guide.

Periodicals will have additional holdings information.

screenshot of the holdings of a periodical catalog record, with blue rectangles around volumes and access

The most recent issues received by the library will be listed, followed by the volumes owned by the library. Open-ended dates indicate that the library is still receiving new issues of the title. If there are online and physical access options, they will be listed on the right side of the screen.

Table of Contents

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For more details about the content of an item, scroll down to view chapter titles and subtitles in the table of contents. 

Subject(s)

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Each subject will be a link. Use the link to find other items in the catalog with the same subject 

Additional Options

Screenshot of Essential Scalia catalog record with navy rectangle around cite, share, save and Google Preview options

On the upper right side of the record is a blue box with additional options; cite, share, and save. Underneath the photo of the book is an option for Google Preview

MARC Records

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Click on the Staff View (MARC record) link will take you to a different view of the record. This is call the MARC record. It is a machine readable version of the bibliographic record. Some fields may be relevant to your citation needs. For example, field 264 shows the publication information.

screenshot of the MARC record for the Essential Scalia