Primary Research Group Inc. has published: Survey of Law Library Plans for the
Print Materials Collection, 2018 Edition, ISBN 978-157440-498-2
The study presents data from 34 North American law libraries, detailing their
plans for their print materials acquisitions. The study gives comprehensive
data on spending on print versions of books, journals, directories, loose-leaf
services, newspapers and magazines and other products in print formats, with
data from 2016, 2017 and estimated for 2018. The study also presents the
opinions of survey participants about their plans for print over the next few
years.
Just a few of this 84-page report’s many findings are that:
For smaller law firm libraries in the sample the change in overall mean print
spending from 2016 to 2018 was a cumulative drop of $25,249 or 12%. This was
a lower decrease than for many other types of law library in the sample.
Primary legal works accounted for a mean of 25.78% of the sampled libraries
print materials budget with a median of 30% and a range of 0 to 70%.
Non-law firm corporate and government libraries cull an annual mean of 7.29%
of their book collections.
Most of the print subscription volume was in larger law libraries with more
than 3 full time equivalent librarians, though it should be noted that many of
these were not university law libraries.
Data in the report is broken out for US and Canadian libraries, and by library
size and type, i.e., university law library, courthouse law library, other
government/corporate law library, and for two categories of law firm library,
those serving fewer than and more than 150 lawyers.
A PDF version of the report is currently available from Primary Research Group
and a print version of the report is in production and will be available for
shipment on March 9, Site licenses are also available. For a table of
contents, excerpt and list of participants – or to place an order -- view the
product page for this report at:
http://www.primaryresearch.com/AddCart.aspx?ReportID=481.
Or call us at 212-736-2316. Orders can be faxed to 212-412-9097. Or view our
general website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.
Received on Wed Feb 28 2018 - 22:44:40 EST