In the spirit of law-lib as a discussion listserve, here's my take :-)
1) Change the name (Legal Newletters? Directory of Legal Newsletters?) and
bring down the wrath of catalogers and indexers
2) Change the name and bring down the wrath of reference librarians who
know what to type into the catalog when trying to locate LNiP in the
collection and would now have to forage around the old brain cells trying
to remember the new name
3) Don't change the name - most librarians (the main users of the book I
presume?) who use the title don't assume that "in print" means only "in
print", but know it has a much broader meaning instead. (And we don't mind
the quaintness of, in fact like it very much, seeing "in print" in print.)
4) Change the name and the substance of the book dramatically, i.e. start
all over: Directory of legal newsletters and looseleafs (mommy, what are
looseleafs?)
5) Change the name and get out of the print business all together
I'm sure these aren't anything new to you as publisher, but if I as a
librarian had to choose, I'd like the print around for a year or two, with
its old name, and then would probably be quite happy to use it online,
under whatever name you want (I vote for LNiPs myself ;-)
LoRr
Laura Orr
Visiting Reference Librarian
Willamette Law Library
Email: lorr@willamette.edu or laura.orr@yale.edu
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