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SLS/BIALL Academic Law Library Survey 2015/2016

Citation: Gee, David (2018) SLS/BIALL Academic Law Library Survey 2015/2016. Legal Information Management, 17 (4). pp. 245-262. ISSN 1472-6696

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Survey report outlining the activities and funding of academic law libraries in the UK and Ireland in the academic year 2015/2016. The figures have been taken from the results of a survey questionnaire undertaken by Academic Services staff at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on behalf of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS). The report is based on returns from 97 university and college libraries in the UK and Ireland (institutions offering either undergraduate, postgraduate or vocational courses) who responded to the survey conducted in March 2017. It is the only survey of its kind and provides data which academic law library managers use to bench-mark their own services and law course validation bodies note when appraising the provision of institutions seeking to run law courses. The report includes a summary of key findings, a compilation of the statistics, conclusions drawn from the figures and illustrative diagrams.

Additional Information: This survey has been run on an annual basis since 1996 and reported in The Law Librarian and latterly in Legal Information Management. It is sponsored either by the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) or by the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS). This report, sponsored by the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), will appear in the journal Legal Information Management in 2017
Creators: Gee, David and
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1472669617000470
Official URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/legal-info...
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Subjects: Law
Keywords: Law libraries, Law Librarianship, Legal information management, Legal research, Information retrieval
Divisions: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Dates:
  • 20 July 2017 (accepted)
  • 15 January 2018 (published)

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