Survey Update
Greetings law-lib'ers.
A few weeks ago, I posed a couple of questions to law-lib'ers regarding
the use of email for reference and ILL. Here are the results of that
informal survey.
Total number of libraries responding: 18
Total number of libraries which conduct reference via email: 8
Total number of libraries with a dedicated email address for reference: 4
Total number of libraries which conduct ILL via email: 5
Nearly every library expressed an interest in conducting reference via
email. Some common obstacles included: lack of email access for students
and faculty, lack of email use by students and faculty, lack of email
knowledge by students and faculty, cost for email access/use for
professional students and faculty.
I received responses from the following libraries: Cornell, Syracuse,
Univ. of Conn., Boston Univ., Wake Forest, Berkeley, Northwestern, Yale,
Univ. of Penn., CWRU, San Diego, Nebraska, Illinois, Gonzaga, Columbia,
William and Mary, SUNY Stony Brook, Smith Helms Mullins & Moore. If
you're school is not shown and you'd like to be included in this survey,
just send me you're answer and I'll update the survey later.
Darin Fox
Recent Grad and Law Librarian Wanna-Be
University of Illinois
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
fox@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
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