Ron,
Here at Myopia School of Law we have decided
to take an incremental approach. In our
first year we have acquired a full range of
labor law treatises and reporters on CD-ROM
and have ceased admissions for students from
a blue-collar background.
In retrospect, I feel that this was a
mistake. We still have a large number of
looseleafs from other subjects but we no
longer have student grunt workers to file
them. Nevertheless, we remain committed to
the program and we feel sure that other
institutions, if they learn from our
misstep, can make the transition
successfully and relatively painlessly.
Best regards,
Chris
Christopher Carr
Library Services Manager
Howard, Darby & Levin
1330 Avenue of the Americas
New York NY 10019
212 841 1085
(speaking for myself)
P.S. I would be distressed if anyone on the
list should interpret the above as a
bourgeois attack on working class law
students. My own life experience was
precisely that: working class background,
library student grunt worker both
undergraduate and in law school.
P.P.S. Glad you stuck around, Ron!
>>> Ron Huttner
<r.huttner@law.unimelb.edu.au> 06/09/98
07:10am >>>
We now have all knowledge, both law-related
and otherwise, on a wide range
of CDs and are considering cancelling
students. Recent studies suggest that
CDs have considerable advantages over
students. They are are, generally
speaking, small, compact and tidy - unlike
many students. They do not drop
crumbs, bubble-gum, coca-cola etc. into disk
drives, nor set out to damage
hardware. They retain the vast body of
knowlege stored in them for
infinitely longer than most students, and
that knowledge is instantly
accessible, far more easily.
Can those of you have already dispensed with
students, share your
institution's
experience with doing without them ?
Any considerations, guidelines, warnings ?
;->))
Ron Huttner
Lecturer In Computerised Legal Research
Faculty Of Law
University Of Melbourne
Australia
r.huttner@law.unimelb.edu.au (University)
rshutt@ozemail.com.au (Home)
"Internet Sites For Lawyers" -
http://www.viclf.asn.au/research.html
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