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This collection will be invaluable to anyone involved in building a comprehensive, efficient law collection that incorporates digital technology. 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. The World Wide Web has created an explosion of both commercial and private online publishing. The amount of legal information available and its costs continue to soar. Many of the materials law libraries traditionally collected in print form are now available in electronic format. Small publishers and book jobbers have been forced to reinvent themselves. This book examines these and other crucial issues related to law library collection development.
List of contents
- Preface
- Books, Bytes, Bricks, and Bodies: Thinking About Collection Use in Academic Law Libraries
- Re-Engineering the Law Library Resources Today for Tomorrow's Users: A Response to "How Much of Your Print Collection Is Really on WESTLAW and LEXIS-NEXIS?"
- Availability of Works Cited in Recent Law Review Articles on LEXIS, Westlaw, the Internet, and Other Databases
- Strategic Planning for Distance Learning in Legal Education: Initial Thought on a Role for Libraries
- Web Mirror Sites: Creating the Research Library of the Future, and More...
- Legal Scholarship and Digital Publishing: Has Anything Changed in the Way We Do Legal Research?
- Trust v. Antitrust: Consolidation in the Legal Publishing Industry
- Access versus Ownership: A Changing Model of Intellectual Property
- A Law Library in the New Century: The Creation of the University of St. Thomas Law Library
- Electronic Journals in the Academic Law Library-Law Reviews and Beyond
- Book Selection Services: One Law Library, Two Vendors
- Changes in the Courthouse-Electronic Records, Filings and Court Dockets: Goals, Issues and the Road Ahead
- The Changing Role of Law Library Vendors: The William S. Hein & Company Perspective
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
About the author
Gordon Russell, Michael Chiorazzi
