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New York Law School`s Mendik Law Library, dedicated in 1990, is a comfortable research and study facility for students and faculty. It houses more than 500,000 volumes of books, microforms, audio/visual materials, and computer programs. The legal research resources include materials from international, federal, all fifty state and local New York jurisdictions. The Library`s superb collection is augmented by a sophisticated range of computer research services and other technological enhancements. The five-story facility contains study carrels and tables, lounge seating, and several meeting rooms for study groups.

The online public access catalog, automated acquisitions, serials, and circulation control systems provide easy and comprehensive access to the Library`s collection. Reference librarians assist users in locating materials outside the Law School`s collection and in arranging access to the most convenient sources. To maximize the range of materials and facilities available to students and faculty, the Library has joined several library consortia. As a member of the Consortium of Metropolitan Area Law Schools and the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency (METRO), the library can arrange access to other research and academic libraries within the New York Metropolitan area. Through the JILP, the Joint International Law Project, New York Law School provides its students access to a unified research collection of international and comparative law materials. Using the bibliographic databases of OCLC and RLIN, librarians can locate and arrange for the interlibrary loan of materials from academic, court, public and private libraries throughout New York and the United States.

Terminals dedicated to LEXIS/NEXIS and WESTLAW allow students and faculty to conduct unrestricted computer-assisted legal research. Access is also available to the Internet, Dialog and the Dow Jones New Service databases. In addition, the Library subscribes to over 30 electronic research products, including HeinOnline, Index to Legal Periodicals, LexisNexis Congressional, Index to United Nations Documents and Treaties, and JSTOR.  Our reference librarians are fully trained in all of the computer-based research systems and offer a variety of training sessions in their use.

Library staff members are available to assist members of the law school community with research problems and to direct them to the most current materials in their particular areas of study. The full-time staff of twenty-three, includes twelve professional librarians, seven of whom hold J.D. degrees. The Library works closely with the faculty, the Legal Research and Writing Program, the law school journals, and moot court students and staff to coordinate programs and to insure that the challenging studying, researching, and writing needs of the NYLS community are met.