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Are Law Libraries becoming obsolete...?

By James Mullan

...well the good news is no according to this article from the Birmingham Business Journal, the bad news is that more and more Libraries are being "downsized" in favour of less "traditional" means of finding information, in other words electronic databases.

Does removing book and hard copy sources from a Law Library really mean the Library is becoming obsolete though? I don' think so, in fact the opposite could be said. As the use of traditional sources has diminished the need for Law Libraries and Law Librarians has increased as users now require more assistance in using the sources available to them and with finding them in the first instance.

The article has already generated a number of comments from U.S Law Librarians which BIALL members might be interested in.

Full post as published by The BIALL Blog on March 10, 2008 (boomark / email).