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Report of the Law Librarian 1969-1970
July 17, 1970
The Law Library continued to make progress during the ,
1969/70 ‘1
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academic year in the area of the collection and in public services t '' despite the fact that there was no increase in the book appropriations
and no increase in the staff of the Reference and Circulation Depart ment.
The outlook in terms of finances and staffing for the tipcoming
year and the following two or three years is not good.
THE WORK OF THE DEPARTMENTS For the second consecutive year over 1^,000 volumes were added. The figure for
1969/70
was 1^,19^ volumes.
Again the Acquisition
Section was able to process more materials that were received by gifts and exchange. In
1967,
Olin Library transferred to the Law Library approximately
800 to 1,000 volumes of legal publications.
This year 330 volumes were
processed and added to the Law Library collection. r
.• .1 The size of the Law Library collection as of June 30, 1970, \■
totals
21*8,822
volumes, which includes
the Law Library from Olin Library.
33®
volumes transferred to