Less Is More at Law Libraries

Jen Young writes “The law library is going the way of the three-piece suit, so Says Law.com. In our second AmLaw Tech Library Survey, 88 of the Am Law 200 firms responded (up from 53 last year), and the verdict is clear: Box up those Corpus Juris Secundums; this isn’t John Houseman’s law library anymore. Today’s law librarians are often more concerned about maintaining WiFi reception than full sets of ALRs. With the physical space of libraries shrinking, librarians look back with nostalgia on the days when the library was the anchor of the firm, an intellectual village where lawyers gathered to ferret out the law from the mound of paper around them. No more.
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June 7, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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