Roger, while I support the idea of the new standard, I don't understand
why a new or separate questionnaire or form, if you will, should be
necessary. Can't White's office use the data from the ABA Questionnaire
to gather this information?
Penny A. Hazelton
Law Librarian and Professor of Law Telephone: (206) 543-4089
Gallagher Law Library FAX: (206) 685-2165
University of Washington Internet: pennyh@u.washington.edu
1100 NE Campus Pkwy, JB-20
Seattle, WA 98105
On Tue, 10 Mar 1992, RJACOBS%IRISHMVS.CC.ND.EDU@UICVM.UIC.EDU wrote:
> education and admissions to the bar established a
> special committee on law school information. That
> committee is proposing a new aba standard which
> states "A law school shall release consumer information
> as defined by the council. Any information released by
> a law school must be fairly and accurately presented."
> A propsed interpretation of 215 lists "library resources
> " as one of the catagories of basic information. A
> proposed form to gather the various catagories of
> basic information is suggested. The library data
> requested on that for is as follows:
> total volumes & equivalents
> volumes per student
> no. of titles
> number of professional staff
> staff per student
> hours of operation w/staff
> ratio of students to computers
> for research
> for word processing
> study seating capacity
> May I suggest that any librarian that has a comment
> on this proposed standard, particularly the library
> data portion of the suggested questionnaire offer
> that comment to their dean, jim white, consultant to
> legal education, or to me. I will certainly be
> pleased to convey your collective comments to the
> council of the section. Thank you. Roger F. Jacobs
> Notre Dame Law School.
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