Jamail Center for Legal Research
Tarlton Law Library

Hyder Popular Reading Room

The Hyder Popular Reading Room provides law students a respite from their legal studies. In the comfortable setting of the Hyder Popular Reading Room, Library visitors can enjoy current newspapers and magazines, as well as a fine collection of literature and non-fiction works.

As part of the Hyder Popular Reading Room collection, the Library subscribes to the following daily newspapers:

• The New York Times
• The Wall Street Journal
• Austin-American Statesman
• Houston Chronicle
• Dallas Morning News
• Financial Times

Issues of these newspapers are kept for the past 7 days in the Hyder Popular Reading Room.

Current issues from several popular magazines including Time, Newsweek, Variety, National Geographic, BusinessWeek, and Harper's are also available in the Hyder Popular Reading Room.

The collection of fiction and non-fiction works in the Hyder Popular Reading Room includes books authored by Texas writers such as Larry McMurtry, as well as a large number of novels, mysteries, and non-fiction titles.