More than 600 law center students at Wolfson Campus will have easier access to lay down the law.<\/p>\n
The United States Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of Florida donated their entire collection of books to Miami Dade College\u2019s Law Center.<\/p>\n
The library is set to have approximately 4,722 books as opposed to the current paralegal collection of 1,500.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very excited, we\u2019ve been working on growing our program for years and this new law library is definitely a huge stepping stone,\u201d said Law Center Director, Thomas Nguyen.<\/p>\n
The Law Center at MDC is the only ABA approved program in Miami-Dade County. It has been working for more than a year to build communication partnerships with all legal law offices and legal organizations in South Florida.<\/p>\n
Because the U.S Attorney\u2019s office is going electronic, they have made their collection available to MDC.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost books they have provided are federal volumes that we lack, the entire collection is about four times the size of ours.\u201d Nguyen said. \u201cThis law collection will probably make our legal law collection one of the biggest in the country and is set to be worth approximately $600,000.\u201d<\/p>\n
It will be located on the first floor of the library located at Wolfson Campus in an area the size of two classrooms.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have knocked down the walls of the two spare classrooms we had here at the library to make room for this enormous collection of Law books,\u201d said Adria Leal, a Wolfson campus librarian.<\/p>\n
Previously, students were limited with the small collection at the campus library or would have to commute to the Miami Federal Courthouse\u2019s library in Downtown.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs someone who has done legal research at the University of Miami library and the Federal Courthouse, it is very nice to have something that is more accessible to the students here at MDC,\u201d said Jose Medina, an intern at the Law Center. \u201cWe will feel more comfortable which will ultimately improve our ability to do the required research.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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