On Tue, 25 Jul 1995 MUMMJ@vmsa.csd.mu.edu wrote:
> We recently received a form letter from CCH stating that they have made a
> change to the Labor Cases subscriptions. Archival copies of court cases
> will now be issued in a hard-back transfer binder format instead of in
> bound volumes.
>
> We have been relying on the bound volumes for permanent retention.
> Having to bind the transfer binder material is not overly appealing, and
> so I am wondering how others are addressing this issue. Is this yet
> another point of contention with CCH, or is this a common practice that
> we, the library community, are willing to accept?
>
> I appreciate any thoughts on this.
Jim ... [et al.]
I will be bringing this question up at our next meeting for a decision on
whether to bind the transfer binders or not. Certainly for research
libraries, CCH's new approach is not very acceptable for permanent
retention of this title. It's probably one of those nifty marketing
strategies where the norm is to produce a product for the majority. It
reminds me of the cheap binders that West continues to use for their
national reporter volumes--they just aren't made to take a lot of use.
They are produced for law firms and low use, not for a horde of law
students who are using them for legal research classe and public use.
I recommend we all call CCH customer service and tell them our concerns
that a transfer binder approach isn't a good thing for law libraries with
high use and permanent retention. 800-835-5224.
Thanks Jim for bringing this up.
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