"Sponsored by the American Association of Law Libraries." Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Emerging trends / Michelle M. Wu. The academic law library budget / George Pike -- Selecting the best staffing level for modern law libraries / Catherine M. Dunn -- Hiring the "right stuff" for institutional success / Joan S. Howland -- The status of the academic law library director / Scott B. Pagel -- Contributions to the intellectual life of the institution and the profession / Janet Sinder -- Other roles for the library or library director / Darcy Kirk -- Collection development / Casey D. Duncan -- How is continually evolving technology impacting the law library? / Darin K. Fox -- How much and what type of space does a law library need? / Michelle M. Wu -- How should the law library interact with the law school or university? / Carol A. Watson -- Centralization of the academic law library: is it right for your institution? / Elizabeth G. Adelman -- Emerging trends / Michelle M. Wu.
Summary:
In a world where technology advances appear daily, deans and provosts often have questions about law libraries, their purposes, and whether technological innovations should lead to changes in library spaces, collections, and/or services. This book seeks to answer those questions, examining the factors involved in an analysis of what a community needs from their library, and demonstrating why the answer to these questions might vary from library to library. Featuring commentaries by multiple directors, this valuable title will help newer and experienced law library directors, law school deans, and university provosts (where the university has a law school) by highlighting different approaches in analysis as well as changing cultures in law libraries--Back cover.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.