The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library

The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library opened at the heart of the University of Chicago campus in 2011. It features a soaring elliptical glass dome capping a 180-seat Grand Reading Room, state-of-the-art conservation and digitization laboratories, and an underground high-density automated storage and retrieval system. The Mansueto Library speeds scholarly productivity by allowing for the retrieval of materials within an average time of 3 minutes through use of robotic cranes. Designed by renowned architect Helmut Jahn, the Mansueto Library has been recognized with a Distinguished Building Citation of Merit by the American Institute of Architects’ Chicago chapter and a Patron of the Year Award by the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

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March 2024: D'Angelo Law Library Emerging Technologies Update

This month's emerging technology update focuses on the release of the Claude 3 large language model, legal prompt engineering guides, and trackers for legislation relating to AI.
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Altmetric Is Now Integrated with HeinOnline

Altmetric is now integrated into HeinOnline! Read this post to learn more about how this integration uncovers scholarly impact.
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Library funds new open access publishing options with Association of Computing Machinery, the Biochemical Society, and the Company of Biologists

To date, the Library has entered into agreements with 16 journal publishers allowing all UChicago faculty, students, and staff to publish open access without paying Article Processing Charges (APCs).
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson: Nomination Documents

In honor of Women's History Month, the D'Angelo Law Library is featuring a new resource - the nomination documents of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who became the first Black woman to sit on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), as published in four-part volume 28-28C (2024) of the History of Supreme Court Nominations database available via HeinOnline.
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