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University of Washington School of Library and
Information Science
Spring Quarter 1998
Professor Penny A. Hazelton
Condon Hall, Room 147,
MW 8:00 to 9:20 a.m.
If you would like to request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact Disabled Student Services, 448 Schmitz, 543-8924 (V/TDD). If you have a letter from Disabled Student Services indicating you have a disability that requires academic accommodations, please present the letter to me so we can discuss the accommodations you might need for class.
All reading materials for class will either be on Course Reserve in the Gallagher Law Library or you will be given your own copy in class.
Mon. 3/30 Overview of Course
Wed. 4/1 Collection Development
Assignment for 4/1:
Harry Martin, III, "From Ownership to Access: Standards of Quality for the Law Library of Tomorrow", 82 LLJ 129-145 (1900)
Jonathan Franklin, "One Piece of the Collection Development Puzzle: Issues in Drafting Format Selection Guidelines", 86 LLJ 753-780 (1994)
Team Reports Due on U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs FormatsMon. 4/6 Collection Development - Format Choices
Assignment for 4/6:
Team Reports Due on U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs Questions
Mueller and Kehoe, Law Librarianship: A Handbook, v. 1, ch. 9, pp. 237-258 and skim pp. 289-328 (on reserve)
Come ready to discuss ABA Accreditation Standards as they relate to collections and services (handout)
Handout History of the ABA Accreditation ProcessWed. 4/8 Technical Services in Law Firm Libraries
Guest Speaker: Bridget Dacres, Library and Research Services Manager, Bogel and Gates
Assignments for 4/8:
Written comparison of CD Policies - Gallagher and University of Chicago
(Jan will collect and turn into Penny's office)
Kehoe, Law Librarianship: A Handbook for the Electronic Age, 1995, ch. 1, pp. 43-69 and pp. 167-177 (on reserve)Mon. 4/13 Technical Services in Academic Law Libraries
Guest Speaker: Richard Jost, Assistant Librarian for Technical Services
Assignments for 4/13:
Kehoe, Law Librarianship: A Handbook for the Electronic Age, 1995, ch. 2, pp. 151-166 (Collection Development)
Kehoe, Law Librarianship: A Handbook for the Electronic Age, 1995, ch. 7, pp. 447-477, 478-492 (Collection Management in the Automated Law Library)Wed. 4/15 Technical Services in State, Court and County Law Libraries
Guest Speaker: Laurie Miller, Librarian, King County Law Library
Read for 4/15:
Kehoe, Law Librarianship: A Handbook for the Electronic Age, 1995, ch. 9, pp. 577-596, 597-605, 606-620 (Shared Resources)Mon. 4/20 Collection Development and Accreditation Standards
Wed. 4/22 The Selection Process and Selection Tools
Read and prepare for 4/22:
McCoy, Patricia, "Technical Services and the Internet", 69 Wilson Library Bulletin, pp. 37-40 (no. 7, 1995)(Course Reserve)
Kehoe, Law Librarianship: A Handbook for the Electronic Age, 1995, ch. 2, pp. 97-150
Levy & Koster, "Starting a Law School Library", 70 LLJ 290-308 (1977)(on course reserve)Mon. 4/27 Selection Tools (cont.)
Guest: Richard Jost to lead discussion of selection tools
Wed. 4/29 Government Documents
Guest Speaker: Peggy Roebuck Jarrett, Reference and Documents Librarian
Read for 4/29 and 5/4:
Law Librarianship: A Handbook for the Electronic Age (1995)(Reserve)Chapter 3: "Government Documents - Federal and State"
By Cheryl Nyberg, pages 179-215
Chapter 4: "Government Documents: Collections in the Law Firms"
By Judy Manion, pages 246-256Laura Orr-Waters, "Love It or Leave It: Government Depositories in Law Libraries", 15 Legal Reference Services Quarterly, p. 133-145 (no. 3/4 1996)(Course Reserve)
Morehead, Introduction to United States Government Information Sources, 5th ed. (1996) ch. 1-3, pp. 1-52 (Course Reserve)Mon. 5/4 Government Documents (cont.)
Guest Speaker: Peggy Roebuck Jarrett, Reference and Documents Librarian
Wed. 5/6 Relations with the Trade: Acquisitions
Read for 4/29:
Mueller & Kehoe, Law Librarianship: A Handbook, v. 2, ch. 16, pp. 765-776 (On Reserve)
Locate and read FTC guidelines for law publishers
Houdek Open Letter to the AALL Membership 3/21/97 (Handout)Mon. 5/11 Budgets and Statistics
Read for 5/11 & 5/13:
Trumpeter, Basic Budget Practices for Librarians (1985), ch. 10, pp. 118-135 (Course Reserve)
Warner, Owning Your Own Numbers (1992), ch. II, pp. 13-21 and ch. VI, pp. 75-84 (Course Reserve)
Gasaway, Johnson & Murray, Law Library Management During Fiscal Austerity (1992), parts I-IV, pp. 1-29 (Course Reserve)
White, "The Tragic Cost of Being 'Reasonable'", 116 Lib. J., pp. 166-7 (no. 3, Feb. 15, 1991)(Handout)
"Gallagher Law Library Budget and Expenditures Reports" (Handout)Wed. 5/13 Budgets and Statistics (cont.)
Read for 5/13:
Research Advisor, Issue 7, July/August 1996 (Handout)
ABA 1996 Annual Questionnaire (Handout)
Gallagher Law Library Statistics - Selected (Handout)Wed. 5/20 Student Presentations
Ellen, Jan, Brook, Jim, Lynn
Mon. 5/25 Holiday - No Class
Wed. 5/27 Student Presentations: Wrap-up
Jim, Jessica, Johnetta, Sam, Phil
Summary of Non-Reading Assignments
U.S. Records and Briefs Case Study 4/1/98 Written summary and discuss 4/6/98 Written summary and discuss Summary of Collection Development Policies 4/8/98 Written summary Summary of Outside Speakers 4/20/98 Written summary Future Libraries Report 4/20/98 Written summary and discuss Selection Tools 4/22/98
Written summary and discuss (Retrospective and Current)
4/27/98 CRIV Sheet Critique 5/11/98 Written critique and discuss Publishers Memo and Letter 5/11/98 Written memo and letter CD ROM Promotion 5/18/98 Written memo Statistics Project 5/27/98 Graphs and analysis Presentations 5/20/98 Oral presentation - 15 min. 5/27/98