Seton Hall Law School’s Peter W. Rodino, Jr. Law Library was designated a depository for federal documents in 1979. The collection is currently housed on the third floor of the library and serves the tenth U.S. Congressional District of New Jersey.  The depository is maintained in accordance with the requirements set forth in Chapter 19 of Title 44 of the U.S. Code, and by the guidelines issued by the Depository Library System and the Federal Depository Library Manual.

The students and faculty of Seton Hall Law School are the primary users of the collection. Access to the collection is open and free to all patrons. The entire collection is housed in open stack shelves.  The collection does not circulate.

The depository collection is designed to strengthen the already existing general library collection.  Therefore, the majority of the publications selected originate from the Justice department and the Judiciary. In addition, due to Seton Hall Law School’s strong program in health law, a large proportion of the documents produced by the Health and Human Services Department are also selected. The law school also selects most of the Congressional publications.