Second, providing incentive funding for future voluntary
library consolidation projects stems from a previous County Executive sponsored
initiative to consolidate two or more older /
smaller libraries into one larger modern facility, providing greater capability to provide
library service while controlling annual operating / staffing costs.
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.