Law Library Collection Development in the Digital Age »

Chiorazzi and Russell (the directors of the law libraries at U. of Arizona and St. Thomas U., respectively) present 13 papers exploring the impact of digital publishing and other information technologies on law library collection management. Among the topics discussed are intellectual property, access to public legal records, consolidation in the legal publishing industry, and availability of legal texts on the Internet and databases. Also published as Legal Reference Services Quarterly, vol. 21, nos. 2/3 and 4. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Tapping the expertise of some of the best minds in law librarianship, editors Chiorazzi and Russell, both law library directors and professors of law, have assembled an impressive compilation of essays on the impact of digital publishing on law libraries and their collection development practices. Margaret Maes Axtmann and Edmund Edmonds contribute a chapter on their planning process for the creation of a new law library at St. Thomas School of Law. Claire Germain explores the role of web mirror sites in the dissemination of legal information and discusses recent efforts at Cornell Law Library to make such sites available to researchers for free. Richard Danner, dean and professor of law at Duke University, discusses the growth of distance learning in law schools and its implications for academic law libraries. Other chapters cover access to electronic court records, the role of book jobbers in the future, the use of electronic law journals, copyright, and antitrust issues. This book is essential reading for law librarians, their supervisors, and anyone interested in legal publishing and access to legal information.-Joan Pedzich, Harris Beach LLP, Rochester, NY Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.