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> Subject: Annual Review of Legal Education -Reply
> Originally to: law-lib@ucdavis.edu (ROGER JACOBS)
> I agree that the volume count should not be the sole listing for
> libraries, but I have no substitute statistic to suggest - and
> the Annual Review of Legal Education is only statistics. Have
> you any suggestions for a substitute?
> Jane
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I don't like it much better, but a title count seems to me to be much
more indicative of library quality than volume count. I also think
the actual dollar resources committed to information materials, both
in print and in machine readable formats, tells you much more about a
library's current commitments to quality than volume counts do.
So I would look for:
1) the title count and
2) what was spent over the last five years for books,
periodicals and microforms and
3) what was spent over the last five years for automated
information sources (lexis, westlaw, dialog, cd-roms, etc.)
The first figure give some idea of the effectiveness of historical
collecting over a long period of time, and the last two figures tell
you something about what is being done today and was done in the
recent past.
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