SLS Library Statement 2009
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The Society of Legal Scholars has undertaken a revision of the SLS Statement, A Library for a Modern Law School and the associated Indicative List of Sources for Law Libraries (formerly the Indicative List of Law Library Holdings). Work was undertaken on this by Dr Peter Clinch of Cardiff University, commissioned by SLS. This followed discussion within a working party for SLS, comprising the Hon Secretary and Jules Winterton of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (Chair of the SLS Libraries Sub Committee) as co-chairs, Professor Andy Boon from the University of Westminster and Peter Clinch. The work included questions to Law Librarians in the Annual BIALL/SLS Survey and a separate survey of Heads of Law Schools.We also had helpful comments from a number of individuals, and opened the drafts for public consultation.
The final draft of this revision was approved by the SLS Council at its meeting in September 2009 and is available here. If anyone has any questions, please contact the Hon Secretary, Stephen Bailey (stephen.bailey@nottingham.ac.uk), Jules Winterton (jules.winterton@sas.ac.uk) or Peter Clinch (ClinchPC@Cardiff.ac.uk).
Previous Standards
Read the full set of previous Statement of Standards by clicking here.
Society of Public Teachers of Law (1995) A Library for the Modern Law School: a statement of standards for university law library provision in England and Wales. Legal Studies, Special Issue, December 1995
Society of Public Teachers of Law (1999) A Library for the Modern Law School: a statement of standards for university law library provision in the United Kingdom 1999 revision. Legal Studies 17, 363-414
1999 Statement: http://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/documents/1999.rtf
A Statement of Standards for University Law Library Provision in the United Kingdom (1997).
http://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/documents/1997.rtf
A Statement of Standards for University Law Library Provision in the United Kingdom (1995).
Statement: http://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/documents/1995.rtf
Indicative Holdings List: http://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/documents/1995_Indicative_list.rtf
Surveys of university law libraries
Clinch, Peter (1995) Research report into law library provision in England and Wales during the academic year 1993/94. Legal Studies, Special Issue, December 1995, 53-141
Clinch, Peter (1997) The SPTL-BIALL survey 1995/96. The Law Librarian 28, 25-32
Clinch, Peter (1998) The BIALL academic law library survey 1996/97. Law Librarian 29, 165-177
Clinch, Peter (1999) The SPTL academic law library survey 1997/98: part I. Law Librarian 30, 202-208. Part II. Law Librarian 30, 254-261
Clinch, Peter (2003) The SLS/BIALL academic law library survey 2001/2002. Legal Information Management forthcoming (referred to as the 2002 Survey in the Standards)
Jackson, Cathie (2000) BIALL academic law library survey 1998/99. Law Librarian 31, 227-239
Jackson, Cathie (2001) SPTL/BIALL academic law library survey 1999/2000. Legal Information Management 1, 28-39
Jackson, Cathie (2002) SPTL/BIALL academic law library survey 2000/2001. Legal Information Management 2, 38-49
Young, Helen. (2002) Law librarians survey; are academic law librarians in decline? Legal Information Management 2, 50-55