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40 Years On – Ensuring an Academic Law Library is Fit for Purpose

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2009

Diane Raper
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Abstract

The Kent Law School at the University of Kent celebrated its 40th Anniversary in 2008 and Diane Raper, the current law librarian, reviews the changes that have taken place over the years in relation to user comment and feedback, and external drivers which have ensured the provision of a first-class library and information service for staff and students. She also considers the major changes in the modus operandi of the service over the last 40 years.

Keywords

academic law libraries
Type
BIALL 40th Anniversary – Past and Future
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , September 2009 , pp. 163 - 167
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2009

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