A vital issue here is the long-term accessibility/preservation of the
intellectual content in the volumes under consideration. Can you be 100%
sure that what you have now in paper will still be accessible to you in 10
years, 20, 50? If you own the paper, you make the decisions. If you depend
on commercial publishers, they may make decisions based on their own bottom
line and not on what you need. I don't see how you can trust that they will
still offer the same products in the future. Or they may offer them but
increase the prices so much that they're unaffordable. Note the email of
Tom Killian 2 days ago noting the increase in his CD ROM subscription for
the Michigan Compiled Laws from $462 to $1,020 in one year.
Pat Turpening
Head, Preservation and Archives
University of Cincinnati Law Library
>Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:23:58 -0500
>From: "Felice K. Lowell" <felice.lowell@law.csuohio.edu>
>Subject: Re: Academic law libraries - Reporters
>Sender: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu
>To: Cynthia Aninao <aninaocf@law.uc.edu>
>Cc: "law-lib@ucdavis.edu" <law-lib@ucdavis.edu>
>Organization: Cleveland State University Law Library
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>
>Actually Cynthia, we are talking about that. If the info is available on
>Westlaw and all students and faculty have access to it what is the
>problem? The only paper sacrosanct as far as our reference staff is
>concerned is codes, etc. The rest is taking up a lot of space, gets less
>use each semester, costs an arm and a leg, takes endless processing, and
>decimates a forest daily. As academic institutions, our first priority is
>our students and faculty (or vice versa!)
>1. Can we afford to support users beyond our immediate responsibility.
>2. Is there a better way to insure "ownership" of the information than
>have everyone save the same paper copy?
>3. Is elimination of hard copy going to impact library statistics
>title/volume count? (check all of the government documents which are no
>longer coming in paper, CD, or microform).
>
>To be honest, this memo was sent to spark some conversations on the
>topic. And we may only be talking about multiple copies, when all is
>said and done!
>
>Felice
>
>Cynthia Aninao wrote:
>>
>>Felice, let us know what you find. You're not talking about reporters
>>that are "required" by the ABA, such as F3d, etc? How are you going to
>>deal with that? Cynthia.
>>
>>Cynthia Aninao, Acquisitions Librarian
>>University of Cincinnati Law Library
>>Clifton and Calhoun Streets
>>Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0142
>>
>><mailto:cynthia.aninao@law.uc.edu>cynthia.aninao@law.uc.edu
>>513-556-0156, Fax 513-556-6265
>>
>>On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Felice K. Lowell wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Now that there have been several "surveys" on the acquisition of hard
>>>copy for Shepard's and digests, we'd like to know whether any academic
>>>law libraries have begun to evaluate their reporter subscriptions with
>>>the thought of relying solely on electronic access. We know there are
>>>some law firms doing just that. It seems a little radical for us, but
>>>budget issues are forcing us to be more creative than we have been in
>>>the past!! Thanx for your input. Felice Lowell Asst. Director for
>>>Technical Services Cleveland State University Law Library 216-523-7388
>>
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