Law Library
Collection Development Policies:
Policy Documents and Resources
A Project of the
Acquisitions Committee
Technical Services Special Interest Section
American Association of Law Libraries
Edited by Alan Keely,
Wake Forest University Professional Center Library
Description and Acknowledgements
Go to Policies and Bibliography
Description and Acknowledgements
This site represents a collective effort by law librarians in many countries to create a virtual collection of collection development policy documents for law libraries, and a bibliography of models, standards, and guides for creating law library collection development policies.
The site will eventually include policies from a broad range of law libraries: private, court, agency, public, prison, academic, other. The site also provides access to collection development policy documents for special types of legal materials, such as government documents. Further, the site provides access to related materials of interest, including relevant collection development policies for other types of libraries and special formats, and to bibliographical information on collection policy documents in print, collection development standards, and guides to creating collection development policies.
Please add your library's collection development policy to the list, and please contribute citations to model policy documents, standards, and guides that we haven't yet listed. Send the citation or URL to Alan Keely, Wake Forest University Professional Center Library, e-mail: keely@wfu.edu. If you cannot make your collection development policy available at your institution, please contact us about offering it on another server.
We would like to thank the many librarians who have contributed the URLs for their institutions' collection development policy documents to this project.
We would also like to acknowledge the following individuals for their assistance in identifying and locating other valuable materials: Peter Boll, Wisconsin State Law LIbrary; Patrick Overy, University of Exeter Law Library, for informing us of the SPTL standards; and G. LeGrande Fletcher, Brigham Young University Howard W. Hunter Law Library for contributing the URL of the Washoe County Law Library, and the URL and citation of the FDLP Collection Development Guidelines.
The Law Libraries Collection Development Policies web site was created by Rob Richards, Technical Services Librarian, University of Colorado Law Library. Mr. Richards served as editor of the site from 1998-2002.
Links to Law Library Collection Development Policies, By Library Type
Links to Collection Development Policies, By Special Material Type
Links to Other Collection Development Policies
Bibliography of Resources for Creating Collection Development Policies
This page last updated January 3, 2003
Please send comments to keely@wfu.edu