The draft of the ABA Library Standards has been revised in light
of the comments received by letter and during the comment
sessions held during AALL and ABA Annual Meetings. The Council
of the Section of Legal Education is promulgating, with intention
to adopt, the revised version. The first hearing on this version
will be held in New Orleans (during AALS) January 8 from 11:00
a.m. until noon. The room is not yet determined, but will be
included in a mailing Jim White's office intends to send out
early next week. Time and place of other hearings have not been
established.
Significant changes from the June draft include the following:
The interpretation of Standard 604 on library staffing was
extensively rewritten, deleting any reference to "ratio" of staff
to students and faculty.
The requirement in Standard 606(d) that a law library possess....
now reads "A law library shall provide, through ownership or
reliable access,...." The Interpretation defining possess has
been deleted.
The Physical Plant section (704) was changed by narrowing
"library's users" to "law school's students and faculty." The
seating requirement was changed back to the existing "50% of its
larger division enrollment."
I hope to have the complete text available on the Cornell gopher
sometime next week.
Jane L. Hammond
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Jane L. Hammond, Edward Cornell Law Librarian (retired)
and Professor of Law Emerita
Cornell Law School |hammond@law.mail.cornell.edu
Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853 |voice and fax: 607-272-0628
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