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- From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Seventh Circuit Bound)
- Subject: Re: What's in a big law library?
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 16:08:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.081016.8271@u.washington.edu> tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
- >Looking at the sizes of law libraries listed in "The Official Guide to
- >U.S. Law Schools," it appears that if one classifies libraries by size,
- >there are four categories:
- >
- > small: ~200,000 volumes
- > medium: ~400,000 volumes
- > large: ~750,000 volumes
- > Harvard: ~1,500,000 volumes
-
- Note the difference between "volumes" and "titles." A Harvard may have
- thirty or so copies of US Reporter volumes instead of ten, but then again,
- they also have three times as many students.
-
- >Most well-known schools seem to be medium (e.g., all the University of
- >California schools, Stanford, Chicago, USC, a bunch of others), with a
- >few in the large category (Texas, Yale, Columbia).
- >
- >So, what do the large libraries and Harvard have that those of us with
- >medium or small libraries lack?
- >
- >For example, do they have the West state digests for each state and each
- >region so that one doesn't have to go to the Decennial Digest/General
- >Digest when looking for cases in a particular state?
-
- Our medium-sized library has those.
-
- >Do they have more
- >copies of the commonly-used things? Do they have a lot more weird material
- >that no one has looked at in fifty years?
-
- I suspect it's both of these, but more the former than the latter.
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