Basic Legal Research for University Law Related Classes - Searching Scholar and Ohiolink
Use SCHOLAR to check for books on your topic owned by C.S.U.'s University and/or Law Libraries. You can refer to the SCHOLAR Help page for searching tips.
1. From the SCHOLAR screen, select Keyword for your search.
If you don't know the exact subject heading used in an online catalog, you should try a Keyword search of words that you might expect to find in a title, author, description of contents, or subject heading.
Enter the keyword search lemon law
2. There is a title, Consumer Warranty Law: Lemon Law, Magnuson-Moss, UCC, Mobile Home, and Other Warranty Statutes, 3rd ed. / Carolyn L. Carter and Jonathan Sheldon / Boston, Mass.: National Consumer Law Center, 2006, located on the Atrium Level of the Law Library under the call number KF 919 .C6 S42 2006, it is a title for use in the Law Library. This title is from a respected publisher, and would be worth checking.
3. When you look in the book's index under lemon laws (state), the Index refers you to Chapter 14, "New Vehicle and Motor Homes: Lemon Laws, Other Remedies," beginning on page 601. In addition, Appendix F contains a "State-by-State Analysis of New Car Lemon Laws" which gives summaries and code sections to facilitate your research.
4. Looking for an entire book related to Ohio law, lemon law may be too specific a topic to have a whole book about it, so, consider a broader concept. The title you just located had the word consumer in the title and in the subject headings, so it could be a useful keyword search term.
Enter the Keyword search: Ohio Consumer Law
5. Your results screen shows three entries. Look at the dates. A dash indicates an ongoing subscription to a title, whether a book with new editions, or a periodical.
Click on the middle entry, Ohio consumer law / Legal Aid Society of Cleveland, Ohio State Legal Services Association and the screen displays the record for this handbook. The most recent edition appears with the location of each copy. 
Write down the call number and location.
6. When you take the copy off the shelf, open it to the Index at the back (or perhaps the Table of Contents at the front), and there is a chapter on Ohio Lemon Law. While reading the text, note that the footnotes can lead you to laws, court cases, and other references. This is one of the titles in the Baldwin's Ohio Handbook Series, which the Law Library receives on a standing order for new editions.
7. In SCHOLAR, had you not found a title that seemed to apply to your issue, you could click on the OhioLINK button to automatically run your original search in the OhioLINK catalog. The OhioLINK catalog contains the holdings of over eighty (80) libraries across Ohio. It's possible that there is not an entire book on your issue.
If you have any questions, ask your Law Library Research Services librarian.