Cornell Law Library Annual Report 1982

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Cornell Law Library Myron Taylor Hall Ithaca, New York 14853

CORNELL LAW LIBRARY Annual Report 1981/82

The bright spot of this year was the opening of the Rare Book Room with its dedication November 20, 1981.

This enabled us to bring back to

Myron Taylor Hall the rare materials which had been stored in the Olin Rare Books stacks for several years.

Other books were moved from cages

in the unairconditioned stacks to the new totally climate-controlled area. This allowed us to reorganize the locked cages and open one for general stack access, thus giving a small increase in our very tight stack space. As part of the Rare Book Room construction, the former International Room was converted to a very bright, functional microform reading room with all of the microform storage there as well.

For the first time, this

library has space designed specifically for this rapidly expanding format of legal materials. The microfiche collection grew dramatically this year.

The cut-back

in funds for the Government Printing Office and other federal agencies caused the agencies to change their publications' format to microfiche, because its publication and mailing is significantly cheaper than full-size paper copy.

As a result, many publications are now available to us only

in microfiche, e.g., Congressional bills and Internal Revenue Service Statistics of Income.

Most of the top law reviews became available in

microformat for the first time this year as the copyright problems were


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