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The Grand Tour

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Peter Clinch
Peter Clinch
Affiliation:
Peter Clinch is the Information Specialist Law, Cardiff University, formerly FLAG Project Manager and is well known to colleagues in BIALL as a frequent contributor to LIM. He can be contacted at peterclinch@sas.ac.uk
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Extract

“Seen one library, seen the lot. Drive on!”

Reputedly, this command was uttered by the President of an emerging African nation to his chauffeur, when his official visit to the campus of the state university was running behind schedule. After visiting over fifty university and three national libraries in the last 18 months as part of the data collection phase of the FLAG project, I am able to report that, in the UK at least, the generalisation is not valid.

Type
Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , Winter 2002 , pp. 39 - 43
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2002

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References

Clinch, Peter. (2000) A Web Guide to Overseas Law in UK Libraries–a Project for the 21 st Century. The Law Librarian 31 (3), 156–159.Google Scholar
Clinch, Peter. (2001) FLAG Project: Survey Results. Legal Information Management I (2), 45–58.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Clinch, Peter. (2002) FLAG: The New Internet Gateway to Foreign Law Holdings in UK National and University Libraries in this issue of Legal Information Management.CrossRefGoogle Scholar