The directors of
the Canadian academic law libraries recently met with representatives of the national library to get them to purchase the silver halide fiche from the LLMC project so that the digital records are preserved in and for Canada.
But most of these were smaller libraries in law firms and courthouses: most
Canadian academic law libraries never did adopt KF Modified, and some of those who did have recently given it up, reverting to unmodified Library of Congress Classification, using KE for their Canadian law holdings.
One of my colleagues among
the Canadian academic law library directors recently conducted a survey of our libraries to discover who continues to subscribe to The Canadian Abridgment in print and why.
Not exact matches
Below is the letter from Annette Demers on behalf of the
Canadian Association of
Law Libraries (CALL / ACBD) and John Papadopoulos and Jeanne Maddix on behalf of the
Canadian Council of
Academic Law Library Directors which was also endorsed by Robert Thomas on behalf of the Saskatchewan Library Association.
For large
academic libraries, it's simply cheaper and easier to use unmodified Library of Congress classification schedules to organize their
law collections, despite the disadvantages for
Canadian researchers.
Outside of the
academic law library world a couple of noteworthy bibliographies include the Suggested Textbooks section of Catherine Best's Guide to
Canadian Legal Research and the Legaltree.ca website's Resources by Subject Area
Almost all
Canadian law libraries outside of the
law schools have rejected this belief, but the
academic law libraries hold fast.