Law Library Collection Development in the Digital Age

by Russell; Gordon

• ISBN13: 9780789020239
• ISBN10: 0789020238
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-12-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

While the digital revolution has touched every aspect of law librarianship, perhaps nowhere has the effect been more profound than in the area of collection development. Many of the materials law libraries traditionally collected in print form are now available in electronic format. Digital technology has affected the way we select, order, and process legal materials. The World Wide Web has created an explosion of both commercial and private online publishing. The cost of electronic publishing has caused many traditional law book publishers to sell their companies rather than invest in the needed technologies to compete in the 21st century. Small publishers and book jobbers have been forced to reinvent themselves. The amount of legal information available and its costs continue to soar. Law Library Collection Development in the Digital Age deals with these and other issues related to law library collection development. Chapters range from the theoretical to the practi

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Books, Bytes, Bricks and Bodies: Thinking About Collection Use in Academic Law Libraries	1	(28)
Michael Chiorazzi
Re-Engineering the Law Library Resources Today for Tomorrow's Users: A Response to ``How Much of Your Print Collection Is Really on WESTLAW or LEXIS-NEXIS?''	29	(26)
Gordon Russell
Availability of Works Cited in Recent Law Review Articles on LEXIS, Westlaw, the Internet, and Other Databases	55	(14)
Simon Canick
Strategic Planning for Distance Learning in Legal Education: Initial Thoughts on a Role for Libraries	69	(18)
Richard A. Danner
Web Mirror Sites: Creating the Research Library of the Future, and More . . .	87	(18)
Claire M. Germain
Legal Scholarship and Digital Publishing: Has Anything Changed in the Way We Do Legal Research?	105	(18)
E. Dana Neacsu
Trust v. Antitrust: Consolidation in the Legal Publishing Industry	123	(30)
John Dethman
Access versus Ownership: A Changing Model of Intellectual Property	153	(24)
Scott Matheson
A Law Library in the New Century: The Creation of the University of St. Thomas Law Library	177	(12)
Edmund P. Edmonds
Margaret Maes Axtmann
Electronic Journals in the Academic Law Library--Law Reviews and Beyond	189	(70)
Marguerite Most
Book Selection Services: One Law Library, Two Vendors	259	(16)
Maureen Garmon
Changes in the Courthouse--Electronic Records, Filings and Court Dockets: Goals, Issues and the Road Ahead	275	(26)
Julie C. Turner
The Changing Role of Law Library Vendors: The William S. Hein & Company Perspective	301	(6)
Kevin M. Marmion
Richard J. Spinellii
Index	307