LawLibraryThing
In celebration, the Supreme Court has changed its motto. Thanks guys!
Today, we've released thirteen law libraries: University of Texas Tarlton Law Library, University of Pennsylvania Law Library, Jenkins Law Library, Yeshiva University College of Law, Southern University Law Center, Seton Hall University Law Library, Pepperdine University School of Law, Massachusetts School of Law, Louisiana State University Law Center, Los Angeles County Law Library, Franklin Pierce Law Center, Columbia University Law School and Cincinnati Law Library.
Supreme Court photo by Flickr member Kjetil Ree, licensed as Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic, with shameless edits by Tim.
Labels: law libraries, legal, new libraries
posted by Casey Durfee at 5:38 PM
8 Comments:
Brilliant. Thanks!
The ILSCO source also includes a couple smaller law libraries - I know the one I work at is in there. :)
It's about time the Supreme Court picked up some corporate sponsorship - the other two branches of government have done so for eons! ;)
This is a fantastic addition! I can't wait for MedicalLibraryThing (hint, hint).
You know, if you don't stop adding these libraries, I'm going to have to go out and buy a whole bunch more books just to use the new sources!
Seriously, I'm tempted.
Oh, that's very cool. I wonder if I could catalog our collection at work now...
Just out of curiosity, did you contact the libraries in advance to ask permission and/or inform them that their systems would have increased use because of this? We pay for access and it definitely has an impact.
They are open systems, queried by hundreds of potential clients, from citation systems (eg., Endnote), book cataloging systems, federated seaching, other libraries, and etc. In general, the system themselves cost, but the margin cost—bandwidth—is very low.
We've never been asked to take a library down, but rather have been asked to add systems by their librarians. Of course, we'd be only too glad to shut a library off if they wanted us to. In general, however, libraries that don't want Z39.50 access, like websites that don't want HTTP access, turn on password protection.
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