We need some clarification on West's publication of ALI's "Principles of the Law" series.
When the original notification came out, it made it sound like this was a new product from ALI and, my bad, I didn't double check. But now we see that West is simply republishing the existing volumes already published by ALI years ago, and not just publishing the new volumes.
West's filing instructions state:
"This summer you received the ALI Publishers’ newest publication, Principles of Intellectual Property (essentially
focusing on Internet Law in its global implications). Now, in order to provide full Restatements and Principles of the Law
subscribers with a unified series of published Principles titles, ALI Publishers encloses the Principles of Corporate
Governance (in two volumes) and the Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution. Since their original publication,
each of these titles has been influential in its field and each has achieved healthy citation in the courts and in legal literature. The enclosed volumes provide this material now in an integrated setting, with a consistent appearance to facilitate their contiguous library placement, and with modest corrections of content and update of citations since their original publication."
My question is: do the updates alluded to in the last line above make it worth keeping these reprinted volumes? Are other academic law libraries keeping these reprints of the Principles series, or no? I will summarize for the list. Thank you.
Janet
Janet Fischer
Collection Development/Government Documents Librarian
Golden Gate University Law Library
536 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
phone: 415-442-7826
fax: 415-512-9395
email: jfischer@ggu.edu
http://www.ggu.edu/lawlibrary
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