Law Library Collection Development in the Digital Age

This collection will be invaluable to anyone involved in building a comprehensive, efficient law collection that incorporates digital technology. While the digital revolution has touched every aspect of law librarianship, perhaps nowhere has the effect been more profound than in the area of collection development. The World Wide Web has created an explosion of both commercial and private online publishing. The amount of legal information available and its costs continue to soar. Many of the materials law libraries traditionally collected in print form are now available in electronic format. Small publishers and book jobbers have been forced to reinvent themselves. This book examines these and other crucial issues related to law library collection development.