"From: Mary Lynn Wagner
To: TFS:"law-lib@ucdavis.edu"
CC: wagnerm
Subject: Appraising Library Collection -Summary
Hi everyone!
Sorry this took me so long. Unfortunately, I received very few
responses, but I did receive many requests that I summarize for the
list.
Many thanks to all who responded! ML . . . .
-AALL nolonger publishes a price index in the back of their journal. It
is
now sold separately from AALL and costs approximately $20.00. . . . ."
One of the things an organisation's central staff is inclined to do is
to seek out services, formerly free, for which a separate charge can be
imposed. Now that the survey of law prices is no longer included in
LLJ, but separately sold (cheaply, indeed) it would be interesting to
know how many of this item are sold. And how many institutions catalog
it separately and process each issue for their permanent collection.
Formerly if a footnote was thought necessary for the declaration that
"prices of legal materials continue to rise alarmingly." everyone had
ready access to the cite. Now AALL has a tiny added income, and those
members with budgets so large that material of marginal utility can be
added, must pay the processing costs too. (Is that $20 plus
'handling?') LLJ is missing a regular feature of some interest when
found in something one read anyway. On the positive side, for academic
libraries, it adds to the number of titles AND the number of active
subscriptions, if anyone cares. Not that it is very likely that anyone
is going to be very interested in back issues of a survey which says
only that prices of legal materials continue to rise alarmingly. May I
suggest a title change every few years?
Or else put it back where it belongs.
Have a nice day!
Michael J. Lynch
Law Library Director (404) 872-3593 ext.
108
John Marshall Law School
1422 West Peachtree St. N.W. FAX (404) 873-3802
Atlanta, GA 30309
lynchm@johnmarshall.edu
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