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Building a Foreign Law Collection: Methods and strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Holger Knudsen
Affiliation:
This article describes the approach taken to the creation of a foreign law collection at the Max-Planck Institute. Holger Knudsen, Librarian at the Institute, draws lessons from his substantial experience which are of use to all with responsibility for foreign law collections.

Extract

My Institute is part of, and funded by, the Max Planck Society, which roughly corresponds to an Academy of Science in other countries. The Society runs 80 research institutes today, out of which 12 conduct research in the humanities, including six institutes that deal with legal questions on a superior level, including mine. The different institutes are located in different parts of the country, and this very much corresponds to the federalist foundations of the German state.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2001

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