To the Academic Law Library Community,
Attached is a 23 question survey designed to elicit information on the
state of public PCs in academic law libraries today. I am interested in
how they are arranged, networked, what software is available on them, how
printing is handled, etc. The results of this survey will be compiled
for an article that will appear in Trends in Law Library Management and
Technology.
I would appreciate if one librarian from all academic law libraries would
fill out the survey and return it to me by May 2, 1995. E-mail or
regular mail is fine. I am as interested in your comments on how your
current public PC operation is working, and how you would improve it, as
I am in the configuration of PCs, printers, software, so please make as
many comments as you can.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Leslie Rich 40 Washington Square South
Associate Librarian for New York, NY 10012
Public Services (212) 998-6305
New York University Law Library Fax: (212) 995-3477
Internet: richl@is.nyu.edu
PUBLIC PCs IN ACADEMIC LAW LIBRARIES - SURVEY
1. What is the size of your student body in FTE?
2. What is your library's volume count, including microforms?
3. How many PCs/Macs does your library have in public areas (including in labs but
excluding dedicated Lexis and Westlaw terminals)?
PCs __________ Macs ___________
4. Describe the arrangement of the public PCs/Macs. Circle all that apply.
a. All in one lab
b. In more than 1 lab
b.1. Number of labs _______
c. Scattered in various locations around the library
5. Are your PCs/Macs networked?
Number networked
Number not networked
6. Do you have dedicated Lexis/Westlaw PCs?
Number of Lexis PCs
Number of Westlaw PCs
7. How is jurisdiction over academic computing divided between the law
library, law school and the university. Please describe.
8. Software available - please check all that apply:
All public Some public Lab Law stud. Access
PCs/Macs PCs/Macs only only Code
Wordprocessing_______________________________________________
Law liby OPAC________________________________________________
University OPAC_____________________________________________
CD Roms______________________________________________________
Lexis________________________________________________________
Westlaw______________________________________________________
Telnet client________________________________________________
FTP client___________________________________________________
Gopher client________________________________________________
WWW client___________________________________________________
RLIN_________________________________________________________
OCLC_________________________________________________________
FirstSearch__________________________________________________
Other________________________________________________________
9. Do you have any restricted databases that are only available to some of your patrons?
Please describe.
10. Are access codes required to:
a. enter a lab yes no
b. log onto a PC/Mac yes no
c. access specific software other than Lexis or Westlaw
yes no
Please describe:
11. Are visitors to your library restricted from using any of the PCs/Macs or
any of the software on them? Please describe.
12. Are your PCs running on Windows or Dos?
13. Please specify which client software you are using for the following:
a. telnet_________________________________________________
b. ftp ___________________________________________________
c. e-mail _________________________________________________
d. gopher________________________________________________
e. world wide web_________________________________________
14. If you do not have ftp, email, gopher or web client software on the
desktops of your public PCs, can your students telnet to a service
provider (i.e. the law school or university) for Internet access?
yes no Please describe:
15. If your students do not have Internet access, are there plans to make
it available? Please describe.
16. Do you impose any page limits for printing? Please differentiate
between PCs/Macs in a lab and outside of a lab.
17. Do you charge for printing? Please describe the mechanism you use.
18. Do you supply paper?
yes no
19. Can students send prints to a central printing facility?
yes no
20. If you answered yes to question 19, how is it administered?
21. How would you improve your printing operation?
22. With which aspects of your public PC/Mac operation are you most satisfied?
23. What improvements would you make in your public PC/Mac operation?
Thank you for completing this survey. Please return it by May 2, 1995 to, either via
e-mail or
regular mail, to:
Leslie Rich
New York University Law Library
40 Washington Square South
New York, New York 10012
Internet: richl@is.nyu.edu
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