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Rutgers Newark Law Library: 1L Orientation Guide: Study Rooms & Study Spaces

Study Rooms & Study Spaces

If you are looking for a quiet place to study alone, a place to study and collaborate with other law students, or how to reserve a study room, take a look at the information below.

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Study Spaces

What Different Types of Study Spaces Are Available at the Library - and Where Can I Find Them?

First Floor

Group conversations are welcome in the areas around the Reference and Circulation desks.  If you are looking for a quiet space then head to the Cummis Reference Room or the Foosaner Gallery.

Second Floor

The Second Floor has been designated entirely as a quiet space. Additionally, the East Wing Section of the floor is reserved for use by law students only. The floor has a number of study rooms, study tables and comfortable nooks and crannies for law students to comfortably study in silence.

Third Floor

The Third Floor is now reserved as a quiet collaboration space. Feel free to take your large study groups up to this floor to quietly and respectfully discuss your law school course material and work through cases. Enjoy the use of both rooms and large tables on this floor. This area can accommodate groups of up to 20 folks working together, on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Study Room Reservations

Use of Study Rooms, Newark Campus

Only Rutgers Law School students and Rutgers School of Criminal Justice graduate students may reserve and use study rooms in the Law Library. Use of the study rooms is done by reservation on a first-come, first-serve basis, using the on-line form at: https://reserve.newark.rutgers.edu. Reservations are available for a maximum of four (4) hours per day; no reservations may be made more than 24 hours in advance; all Study Room reservations will be forfeited if the key is not picked up from the Circulation Desk within fifteen minutes of the start time of the reservation. Use of study rooms is limited to study groups; to individual students; LAWRS teaching assistants; and authorized tutors. Study rooms must be vacated at the end of the reservation period. LAWR(S) teaching assistants, and other authorized tutors, may reserve study rooms for up to four hours per day for an entire semester by request.

All Law Library rules apply to the use of study rooms. In addition:

  • Study Room doors must be closed and locked at the end of the reservation period; the key must be returned to the Circulation Desk.
  • Obscuring the windows in the study rooms is not permitted.
  • Users must not make noise loud enough to disturb others.
  • Users must keep rooms neat and clean.
  • Food refuse must be discarded in bins outside the study rooms for odor control.
  • Failure to pick up paper and other debris will result in the revocation of study room privileges for the group or the individual responsible.

In order to manage your study room reservation:

  1. Go to https://reserve.newark.rutgers.edu/EmsWebApp/Default.aspx.

  2. Login with your Rutgers NetID and password.

  3. Click on "My Events" towards the top left of your screen.

  4. To edit a reservation click on the "Name" of the reservation.

  5. To cancel the reservation click on the "-" symbol to the left of the reservation. When the "Cancel Booking" window appears select a "Cancel Reason" and click "Yes, Cancel Booking." If you wish to edit the reservation details click on the pencil symbol.

Review the RU-Newark Reservation and Event Management System user guide for additional help.