My Dean, and possibly yours as well, has just received from Dean White's
office the page for the entry of the ABA's Annual Review of Legal Education
which offers basic facts about my school. He is asked to check the data
contained there for the purpose of insuring its factual accuracy.
The only entry it has about my library, and yours, is that the library
has x "hard copy volumes" and y "microform volume equivalents".
If the ABA is to tell the world about your library are these the two most
significant facts you want to publish?
I have tried for years as a member of the Council to politely urge a shift
away from volume counts as the determinate of quality. I thought that was a
few widely shared by librarians and deans. And yet, once again we are about
to perpetuate this measure.
If you agree with me that as the sole descriptors of our libraries these
measures are woefully inadequate, will you please make your views known to
Dean Robert A. Stein, Chair of the Section of Legal Education:
stein@mailbox.mail.umn.edu and Dean James P. White c/o Julia Hanrahan:
jhanraha@indyvax.iupui.edu.
Thank you
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Roger F. Jacobs Phone:219-631-5916
Notre Dame Law School Fax: 219-631-6371
E-mail Jacobs.1@nd.edu
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