Law Library Collection Development Policies:
Policy Documents and Resources
Bibliography
of Resources for Creating
Collection Development Policies
Policies in Print -- Standards -- Guides -- Bibliography
Collection Development Policy: Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library (2d ed. 1996).
Collection Development Policy: The Ohio State University College of Law Library (1990).
Collection Policy: University of San Diego Legal Research Center (1994?).
Caņon Minimum Centers (Colorado),
General Library Collection Development [Policy], in
Libraries Inside: A Practical Guide for Prison Librarians
205 (Rhea Joyce Rubin & Daniel Suvak eds., 1995).
Legal Materials, in Library of Congress Collections Policy Statements C: LEG (1994).
Model Acquisitions Policy for a Law Office, in Planning the Small Law Office Library 71 (Catherine A. Pennington ed., 1994).
American Association of Law Libraries Contemporary Social Problems Special Interest Section, Recommended Collections for Prison Law Libraries, in Arturo A. Flores, Werner's Manual for Prison Law Libraries (2d ed. 1990).
Tarlton Law Library, School of Law, The University of Texas at Austin, in Library Collection Development Policies: A Reference and Writers' Handbook 403 (Richard J. Wood and Frank Hoffmann eds., 1996).
U.K.:
British and Irish Association of Law Librarians, Recommended Holdings for Law Libraries: Appendixes VI-XI of the Standards for Law Libraries (1983), also published as Special Issue, The Law Librarian, Jan. 1983.
A Library for the Modern Law Sch.: A Statement of Standards for Univ. Law Library Provision in the U.K. § 4 (Soc'y of Legal Scholars 2003) ( http://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/text/publications/page.cfm?no=19).
U.S.:
Academic Law Library Standards:
Am. Bar Ass'n Standards for Approval of Law Sch. § 606 (2004) (http://www.abanet.org/legaled/standards/standards.html).
Ass'n of Am. Law Sch., Bylaws § 6-8 (2004) (http://www.aals.org/bylaws.html).
Ass'n of Am. Law Sch., Executive Comm. Regulations § 6-8 (2004) (http://www.aals.org/ecr/).
Court Library Standards:
American Association of Law Libraries. State, Court, and County Law Libraries Section, Standards for Federal Court Law Libraries (1978).
State and Court Law Libraries of the United States and Canada, Standards for Supreme Court Libraries : Official Draft, Adopted June 25, 1977(1977).
Federal Depository Library Program Standards:
Appendix A: Suggested Core Collection, in Federal Depository Library Manual (1993). Also available on Internet (visited June 15, 2001) < http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/fdlm/corelist.html >.
Collection Development Guidelines for Selective Federal Depository Libraries: Federal Depository Library Manual Supplement (1994). Also available on Internet (visited June 15, 2001) < http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/fdlm/coldev.html >.
Prison and Institution Law Library Standards:
American Association of Law Libraries Social Responsibilities Special Interest Section, Recommended Collections for Prison and Other Institution Law Libraries (1990).
American Library Association, Library Standards for Adult Correctional Institutions (1992).
General Policy Guides -- Law Library Policy Guides
General Policy Guides:
Collection development policies and procedures (Elizabeth Futas ed., 3d ed. 1995).
Library Collection Development Policies: A Reference and Writers' Handbook (Richard J. Wood & Frank Hoffman eds., 1996).
Law Library Policy Guides:
By Type of Library -- By Type of Material
General:
Rosalie M. Long, Harry S. Martin III & Robert L. Buckwalter, Acquisitions, in Law Librarianship: A Handbook 237, 237 (Heinz Peter Mueller & Patrick E. Kehoe eds., 1983).
Lovisa Lyman & Bonnie Geldmacher, Collection Development and Acquistions, in Law Librarianship: A Handbook for the Electronic Age 97, 103 (Patrick E. Kehoe, Lovisa Lyman & Gary Lee McCann eds., 1995).
Prison and Institution Law Libraries:
American Association of Law Libraries Contemporary Social Problems Special Interest Section, Recommended Collections for Prison Law Libraries, in Arturo A. Flores, Werner's Manual for Prison Law Libraries (2d ed. 1990).
American Association of Law Libraries, Standing Committee on Law Library Service to Institution Residents, Contemporary Social Problems Special Interest Section, Correctional Facility Law Libraries: An A to Z Resource Guide (1991).
American Association of Law Libraries Social Responsibilities Special Interest Section, Recommended Collections for Prison and Other Institution Law Libraries (1990).
Diana Reese, Collection Development, in Libraries Inside: A Practical Guide for Prison Librarians 69 (Rhea Joyce Rubin & Daniel Suvak eds., 1995).
Private Law Libraries:
Mark Estes, Chapter 3, Book Selection, in Planning the Small Law Office Library 23 (Catherine A. Pennington ed., 1994).
Janice B. Shotwell & Margret M. Hayden, How to Build a Law Collection: A Guide for Massachusetts Attorneys (1995).
Karen Silber, Every Law Library is Special, and So Is Its Collection Development Policy, AALL Spectrum, Dec. 1999, at 10 (visited Aug. 10, 2000) < http://aallnet.org/products/pub_sp9912.pdf >.
Foreign Legal Materials:
Ellen G. Schaffer, Georgetown University's Developing Foreign Law Policy and Its Implications for Providing Reference Service, 9 Legal Reference Services Q. 121 (1989).
Government Documents:
Appendix A: Suggested Core Collection, in Federal Depository Library Manual (1993). Also available on Internet (visited June 15, 2001) < http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/fdlm/corelist.html >.
Collection Development Guidelines for Selective Federal Depository Libraries: Federal Depository Library Manual Supplement (1994). Also available on Internet (visited June 15, 2001) < http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/fdlm/coldev.html >.
Virgina Thomas, Formulating a Federal Depository Collection Development Statement: Guidelines for Academic Law Library Survival, 11 Legal Reference Services Q. 111 (1991).
Videocassettes:
Ellen J. Miller, The Video Collection: Selection and Evaluation, 85 L. Libr. J. 591 (1993).
American Library Association Reference and User Services Association, Selection of Full-Text Fee-Based Internet Accessible Resources: Bibliography (visited Mar. 1, 2002) < http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/rusa/biblio.HTM >.
Rob Richards, Collection Development for Reference: a Selective, Annotated Bibliography Emphasizing Networked Resources, in Towards a New Vision of Reference: Kaleidoscopic Collections and Real Librarians, an American Library Association, Reference & User Services Association Occasional Paper (Rob Richards and Kathleen M. Kluegel eds., 1998). Also on Internet (last modified Dec. 20, 1997) < http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~rrichard/RUSA/bib.html >.
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