As our community of
academic law libraries becomes smaller and more anemic, our university
libraries may be able to provide us with a transfusion of new skills and influence within a wider information
environment with greater collaborative potential, which we could use to further and promote legal information initiatives in our institutions and nationally.
I have described how financial realities have reduced our
academic law libraries from comprehensive
library environments to a rump body of librarians (or a single librarian) in a
law school doing
library reference duties and obsessing about teaching legal research.