At the risk of speaking for people I should not speak for, let me
try to answer your questions. Clearly physical count of titles, volumes,
dollars spent become more problematic as we move into the electronic
realm. A subcommittee (chaired by Joan Howland) of the ABA Law Libraries
Committee was formed in Orlando in January to review the law library
questions on the ABA questionnaire. We hope their work might actually be
reflected in the 1994 fall questionnaire. This subcommittee hopes to
wrestle with just such issues.
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On Thu, 20 Jan 1994, Ron Stroud wrote:
> Looking ahead to when the law library community begins seriously to
> replace its printed journals with electronic subscriptions, what have
> you heard or pondered regarding how libraries will handle ABA
> statistics reporting. Although number of $ spent on subscriptions
> vs. 'books' will remain a useful statistic, the respective
> print volume and title count ratios (derived from a tally of
> shelflist units) will become commensurately less meaningful (if not
> already meaningless). Will print vol./title counts be history?
> Restricted only to non-supplemented monographs? What rumors of
> ABA inclinations have you heard, and what are your thoughts?
>
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