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Library Support For Faculty Research, Margaret A. Leary
Library Support For Faculty Research, Margaret A. Leary
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This article, aimed at faculty rather than librarians, explains the genesis, purpose, and present methods by which the University of Michigan Law Library provides research service and document delivery to the law school faculty, and describes the benefits to the entire law school community. I hope to inspire other law schools to develop similar programs.
Supporting Faculty Research: A Direct Role For The Library, Margaret A. Leary
Supporting Faculty Research: A Direct Role For The Library, Margaret A. Leary
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The primary mission of the University of Michigan Law Library is supporting faculty research and teaching. For most of the library's history, that support was indirect, aimed at building a collection that would meet present and future faculty needs. In the 1980s, however, it became clear that the law library's collection would never again be able to meet all faculty needs, or all student needs; law was no longer an isolated discipline, and we would need to supply information from many sources and in varied formats. The University of Michigan Law Library has had a faculty document delivery system for …