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Chastek Library's Fall 2020 hours are now available. Library hours are also the hours the law school building will be open to students throughout the semester. Library hours after the Thanksgiving holiday have not been decided. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chastek Library is currently closed to all members of the general public including affiliated attorneys, law bar community members, and Gonzaga University undergraduates. The library has also been closed to the Federal Depository Library Program until further notice. Please contact a librarian if you have any questions. To know when the library will be reopening to the general public, affiliated attorneys, and other community members, please keep an eye on the Library Blawg, library social media pages , or the library's hours page

Racial Justice: Race and Diversity in America is a new research guide that tackles the resources available for those seeking to educate themselves on racial justice issues. Highlighting articles, reports, essays, databases, books, films, TedTalks, blogs, and websites, this research guide covers a wide array of instructional tool-kits to help lead you to answers you may be seeking regarding this issue. Click here for more information .

Chastek Library and Foley Library have a vast array of popular and classified films available for checkout. Look on the library catalog for any film that you may be interested in. You can place a request for any items from Foley and have them sent down for pickup at the law library. To do so, just sign in under your student, faculty, or staff account, click the Request option on the item page, and complete the form. Make sure to choose Chastek Library as your "Pickup Location" option if you want it sent to you in the law school. These films and more are available for check out at the Chastek Library Circulation Desk The film tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used without her consent to create the first immortal human cell line. Told through the eyes of her daughter, Deborah Lacks (Winfrey), the film chronicles her search, along with journalist Rebecca Skloot (Byrne), to learn about the mother she never knew and understand ho