Docket Column August 28, 2006 Top Eleven Reasons to come to the George Mason Law Library: 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. Pick up a copy of WordPerfect Office XP software that you can load onto your own PC. Activate your GMU ID card at circulation so you can use library resources. Get a key to a group study room to talk with classmates to decipher what your professors are trying to teach you. Borrow a CD or cassette study aide to figure out why you can’t understand classmates or professors. Borrow a book from the “in a Nutshell” series to read about things you still can’t understand after attending class, talking to your friends and listening to audio lessons. Read your GMU email (on a computer on the 1st floor) because you left your laptop in your car. Get a code for one of the two 3rd-floor computer labs because after reading your GMU email, you need to do some work. Visit the reference office to ask for research help or help locating a book or article in print or online. Use our industrial-strength stapler to staple that 40-page law review article you printed for class. Read a book. Yes, we actually have books! Study law, because you are a law student, after all.
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