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Annual Report Of The Committee On Libraries, Legal Research And Publications, 1992-1993, Margaret A. Leary Jan 1993

Annual Report Of The Committee On Libraries, Legal Research And Publications, 1992-1993, Margaret A. Leary

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The committee's work this year focused primarily on a project to microfilm Michigan Supreme Court briefs; Investigating the Court's indexes and files to see whether it would be possible to create a master list of all documents filed with the Court which would be included in the filming project; Cinding vendors who might be able to carry out the microfilming; describing the project to them; and obtaining cost estimates.


The Case Of The Disappearing Briefs: A Study In Preservation Strategy, Margaret A. Leary Jan 1993

The Case Of The Disappearing Briefs: A Study In Preservation Strategy, Margaret A. Leary

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Federal appellate court records and briefs are significant to researchers in many disciplines, but academic law libraries are discarding them. Ms. Leary chronicles the demise of paper holdings in law libraries, the rise of microforms, and the contents and usage of the National Archives and Records Administration's files. She then derives principles for preservation strategies that may apply to other categories of legal material.


Response To Wayne P. Kelley, Margaret A. Leary Jan 1993

Response To Wayne P. Kelley, Margaret A. Leary

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I appreciate Mr. Kelley's comments and his concern about the "fundamental legal responsibility of federal depository libraries to provide free and unrestricted access to depository materials to the general public," or, as stated in 44 U.S.C. ยง 1911, "Depository libraries shall make Government publications available for the free use of the general public." I write to respond to the statements that "It is impossible to determine exactly what sort of access to depository materials is allowed at the University of Michigan Law Library from the [Snow] article," and "It appears that the ... policy does not meet our requirements."