Howard W. Hunter Law Library
The Howard W. Hunter Law Library is the library of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University (BYU), Provo, Utah. It was named for Howard W. Hunter, the 14th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who had been a lawyer in the Los Angeles area before he was called as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve.
The Hunter Law Library has only had its current name since 1995. However the library dates back 1975. It was renamed at the time of its expansion in 1995, which was also only a short time after Hunter's death. Hunter had been an early advocate of the founding of the BYU law school as a member of the BYU Board of Trustees and had also been closely connected with recruiting Rex E. Lee to be the first dean.
The library was expanded largely through a donation from Jon M. Huntsman, Sr. who had been Hunter's stake president and a good friend and wanted to honor him by having the library named for him.
The Hunter Law Library has over 450,000 volume and volume equivalents and over 4,000 active serial subscriptions. The current director is Kory D. Staheli, who has held this position since 2005 when he replaced Constance Lundburg.
The library is located in the same building as the Clark Law School, but it has clear internal entrances which are the security points beyond which books that have not been checked out may not go. Although geared towards the needs of law school students any BYU student may check out materials from the law library or access LexisNexis through the libraries system.
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External links
- Howard W. Hunter Law Library website
- article on Staheli's appointment
- article on the naming of the BYU law school library
Coordinates: 40°14′59″N 111°38′43″W / 40.24972°N 111.64528°W