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Law Library Annual Report 1992/93
The predominant story in the Law Library this year was the successful search for a new director to replace Jane L. Hammond, who had announced in May 1992 her intention to retire in the summer of 1993. Claire Germain moved from Duke University's Law Library to become the Edward Cornell Law Librarian and Professor of Law July 1, 1993.
STAFF Other than the change in director at the end of the year, we had no staff turn-over during the year. In marked contrast to prior years, the Public Services Department has had no turn-over for two years with one exception: at the beginning of the year, the vacant multi-media/computer assistant position (responsible for day-to-day operations in the Non-Print Resources and Open Reserve area) moved from the Law Library to the Law School Educational Technologies Department. During the first months of the year, the Circulation Supervisor devoted a significant portion of her time to issues of training and supervision of student workers in the Non-Print area, with much concern that the library-related tasks as well as the computer related tasks were being completed satisfactorily. By the end of the year the area appeared to be operating smoothly.
SCRLC GRANT The South Central Research Library Council (SCRLC) renewed its grant for the conversion of more records from the manual catalog to machine-readable form. The grant is allowing us to make steady progress in converting targeted areas of the collection for use with NOTIS, while maintaining high standards of quality control. In addition, specific portions of the collection split between two classification systems or in inadequate classifications are being reclassified as the records are converted to machine-readable form. Unfortunately, SCRLC will not be able to fund this grant for a third year, leaving us with no outside support for getting our older records into NOTIS. Fortunately the Law School has agreed to fund a part-time position to continue this work for the next two years. By the time the grant expires, we expect to have about 50 - 55% of the collection converted. At that time the manual catalog will still be the only access point for all pre-1976 material for the states of the U.S. (except for court reports) and all foreign materials except for those pertaining to the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. This includes many of the