Law Library Collection Development Policies:
Policy Documents and Resources

Links to Law Library Collection Development Policies
By Library Type


Click on a type of law library, to see links to relevant policy documents:

Academic Libraries

Association Libraries

Court Libraries

Government Agency Libraries

Prison and Institution Libraries

Private Libraries

Public Libraries
(National, State & Local)


Academic Libraries:

Arizona State University
Ross-Blakley Law Library
Government Documents Collection Policies

Ave Maria School of Law Library
Collection Development Policy
(In Microsoft Word format)

Boston University Pappas Law Library
General Collection Policy
Electronic Resources Collection Policy
Foreign and International Collection Policy

Cleveland State University
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library
Collection Development Policy
(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free from Adobe.)

Duke University School of Law Library
Collection Development Policy
U.S. Collection Development Policies by Subject
Foreign Law Collection Development Policy
International Legal Materials Collection Development Policy

McGill University Law Library
Collection Development Policy

New York University Law Library
Library Collections
Foreign Law Collection
International Law Collection
Government Documents Collections

Ohio State University College of Law Library,
Collection Development Policy:
The Ohio State University College of Law Library (1990).

Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law
Sheely-Lee Law Library
Acquisitions Policy for Information Resources

Society of Public Teachers of Law (UK),
Chapter 4, Collections, in
A Library for the Modern Law School:
A Statement of Standards for University Law Library Provision
in England and Wales (1995). Also on Internet (visited Aug. 3, 1998)
<
http://www.law.warwick.ac.uk/sptl/sptlreport.html >.

State University of New York at Buffalo,
Charles B. Sears Law Library,
Collection Development Policy

Bibliothèque de l'Université Laval
Politique de développement des collections: Droit
(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free from Adobe.)

University of Central Lancashire
Collection Management Policy: Subject Guidelines: Legal Studies
(In Microsoft Word format)

University of Colorado Law Library
Collection Development Policies

University of Georgia Law Library
Collection Development Policy

University of Houston,
O'Quinn Law Library
Program for Developing the Law Library Collections

University of Minnesota Law Library
Collection Development Policy
(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free from Adobe.)
Collection Development Policy Conspectus Supplement
(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, available free from Adobe.)
Collection Development Policy for Electronic Resources

University of Notre Dame Kresge Law Library
Collection Development Policy

University of San Diego Legal Research Center,
Collection Policy: University of San Diego Legal Research Center (1994?).

University of Texas at Austin, Tarlton Law Library,
Tarlton Law Library, School of Law, The University of Texas at Austin,
in Library Collection Development Policies:
A Reference and Writers' Handbook 403
(Richard J. Wood and Frank Hoffmann eds., 1996).

University of Waikato Law Library,
Collection Development Policy

University of Washington, Gallagher Law Library,
Collection Development Policy:
Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library (2d ed. 1996).
Purchasing information is available on the Internet at
<
http://lib.law.washington.edu/pubs/pubs.html#cdp >.

Wayne State University Arthur Neef Law Library
Collection Development Policy

Widener University School of Law Legal Information Center
Collection Development Policy

York University Libraries
Collection Development Policies:
Law : Canadian & International

 

Government Agency Libraries:

Library of Congress (U.S.),
Legal Materials, in Library of Congress
Collections Policy Statements C: LEG (1994).

 

Prison and Institution Libraries:

American Association of Law Libraries
Contemporary Social Problems Special Interest Section,
Recommended Collections for Prison Law Libraries, in
Arturo A. Flores, Werner's Manual for Prison Law Libraries (2d ed. 1990).

American Association of Law Libraries
Social Responsibilities Special Interest Section,
Recommended Collections for Prison and Other Institution Law Libraries
(1990).

Cañon Minimum Centers (Colorado),
General Library Collection Development [Policy], in
Libraries Inside: A Practical Guide for Prison Librarians 205
(Rhea Joyce Rubin & Daniel Suvak eds., 1995).

 

Private Law Libraries:

Model Acquisitions Policy for a Law Office,
in
Planning the Small Law Office Library 71
(Catherine A. Pennington ed., 1994).

Warner, Norcross & Judd Library (Michigan)
Acquisitions Policy

 

Public Libraries:
National, State & Local

Library of Congress (U.S.),
Legal Materials, in
Library of Congress Collections Policy Statements C: LEG (1994).

Minnesota State Law Library
Collection Development Plan (partial version only)

National Indian Law Library
Collection Development Policy

Native American Rights Fund
Library Collection Development Policy

Washoe County Law Library (Reno, Nevada)
Collection Development Policy


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