AALL's Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarian Special Interest Section Blog
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Okerson's lecture is thought-provoking. I hadn't seen the statistic that "about 83 percent of all the books ever published appeared first after 1923." And half of them since 1977--no wonder my library's budget can't keep up!
Okerson seems to favor a division of labor in collection development; i.e., that libraries should specialize rather than duplicate other libraries' holdings. That approach runs up against one task of academic law libraries, which is to provide sources for law review cite-checking. The "tyranny of the available" plays out in scholarly writing, meaning that professors and students cite to the resources that are readily available to them. If I don't select what other big law libraries are buying, my library will come up short when journal staff members do their "source-finding." I worry about that.
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