Do any academic law libraries have a system to charge either paralegal schools
or any other outside school for use of the law library? We are preparing to
institute such a fee in our private academic library and wonder if others do
the same and if so, how much is the fee? We hoped to accomplish several
things with the fee: 1) Impress on the administrators of such programs that
there is a cost to maintaining and staffing a law library; 2) Recoup some of
the cost from outside educational organizations that use our library to
make a profit; 3) Reduce the use.
I would be interested in hearing from anybody out there who has such a
program, how much the charges are and how figured, and how well any of our
objectives have been met by your program.
This might be of interest to others on the list, but if you would
rather respond direct to me, I will summarize for the list. Thank you in advance, I am
Betsy McKenzie,
Reader Services
St. Louis University
Law School Library
MCKENZIEBM@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU
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