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Paralegal Studies (PARL): Reference Books

This guide will help you locate and use legal resources owned by the Paul & Harriett Mack Library at Northampton Community College.

How to Get Content From Reference Books

Even though Reference books can't be borrowed from the Library, you can still get information from them remotely by using Library to Go. 

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Reference Books

Materials located in the Reference section may be used only in the Library. The following titles are just a selection of the full range of books and serials available to students in the Paralegal Studies program. To find additional titles, search SpartaCat, the Library’s online catalog.

■       Binder on Pennsylvania Evidence
         KFP 540 .A75 B5

■      Black’s Law Dictionary
         KF 156 .B53 [Also available online through Westlaw]

■       Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation
         KF 245 .B58

■       Federal Civil Judicial Procedure & Rules
         KF 8816 .A193

■       Federal Criminal Code & Rules
         KF 9606.99 .D567

■       Federal Regulation of Real Estate & Mortgage Lending
         KF 665 .B3722 (3 vols.)

■       Gale Encyclopedia of American Law, 3rd edition
         (formerly West's Encyclopedia of American Law)
         This title is only available online from the Gale Ebooks database.

■       Law of Wills in Pennsylvania
         KFP 144 .A937

■       Paralegal Ethics Handbook
         KF 320 .L4 P37

■       Pennsylvania Estates Practice
         KFP 144 .R672

■       Pennsylvania Family Law Discovery Forms
         KFP 94 .A65 B4425

■       Pennsylvania Probate, Estates & Fiduciaries Code
         KFP 144 .A332 A44

■       Pennsylvania Rules of Court: Local, Eastern Region
         KFP 529 .A19

■       Pennsylvania Rules of Court: State
         KFP 529 .A1

■       Pennsylvania Suggested Standard Civil Jury Instructions
         KFP 542.6 .P46 (2 vols.)

■       Uniform Commercial Code
         KF 879 .A15 U55

■       West’s Analysis of American Law
         KF 240 .W454