Buley Library

APPENDIX E.
Legal Reference Resources Upgrade Plan

MEMORANDUM
TO: Collection Development Committee
FROM: Susan Clerc
DATE: 11/18/1999
RE: Recommended law resources

In developing a list of law resources for our collection, I took the following factors into consideration:

Our current holdings including standing orders and Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. Through Lexis-Nexis we have access to full-text opinions for federal, state, and special courts, federal and state statutes, and federal and stateregulations. We had a strong law reference collection with most of the basic sources any library with law-related courses should have. However, the major sets, like the Supreme Court Digest, had not been updated since 1993/94. Because the sources are basics and timeliness is crucial in legal resources, my list of recommendations focuses on replacing or updating them. Through a quirk in pricing, it's actually less expensive to purchase new sets than to update the old ones.

Law questions asked at the reference desk. The majority of law questions are requests for the texts of Supreme Court cases and federal and Connecticut statutes. There is also a pressing need, although patrons might not realize it until they see the texts, for explanatory materials.

The existence of the pre-law program, criminal justice minor, and over 25 law-related courses offered at SCSU, as well as the projected addition of four tax courses and an education law course.

Discussions with faculty members who teach law-related classes: Arthur Paulson, adviser for the pre-law program, Gene Fappiano, one of the coordinators of the criminal justice minor, Arlene Bielefield, Mike Ryan from sociology, and Geoff Gurka from accounting. I also met with Danielle Branco, a graduate student who has been working with Cynthia Disano and John Onofrio to develop an education law course. Danielle had already gathered a collection of material, now housed in the Curriculum Lab.

A tour of the Quinnipiac Law Library and conversation with law librarian Larry Raftery.

A meeting with a West Group sales representative.

Sources	Price	Upkeep
West Group
Black's Law Dictionary 7th	$39
U.S. Supreme Court Digest	$568 to update current set	$300
U.S. Code Annotated	$1,500 set	$1445
American Jurisprudence 2d	$2,350	$1445
Nutshell Series	$999 for the entire set because we ordered by 11/15, $999 is equivalent to c. 50 titles
Connecticut Digest	$714 new set	$235
CT General Statutes Annotated	$900	$790
Connecticut Practice Series Annotated forms Criminal law Family Law Crim Jury Instruction Criminal Rules	$972.50 for full set	$96
CT Rules of Court	$31
West's Education Law Digest price changed to $960	$640	$40 per volume
Legal Rights of Children	$360	$65
Uniform Laws Annotated Marital/Family	$259
Uniform Commercial Code Series	$1,000	$575
COLP
Official CT Practice Book	$27
Delmar Press
Law of Corporations, Partnerships, and Sole Proprietorships	$15.95
Education Law Association
Yearbook of Education Law	$400 for 1989-	$50
Gale
American Law Yearbook (updates West's Encyclopedia of American Law)	$140	$140?
National Survey of State Laws	$68
Greenwood
Landmark Supreme Court Cases	$60
Laypersons Guide to Criminal Law	$65
Constitutional Debates on Freedom of Religion	$50
State Rights and American Federalism	$50
Free Expression in America	$50
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Laws and Issues	$50
Free Expression and Censorship in America	$65
Nolo
Legal Research: How to Find and Understand the Law	$25
Northwestern University Press
Supreme Court's Greatest Hits, CD-ROM	$29.95
Oceana
Commericial Law	$22.50
Consumer Rights Law	$22.50
Law of Buying and Selling	$22.50
Pearson Custom Publishing
Law, Business, and Regulation 2nd ed	?
Total:	$11,412.45 +320
Estimated total upkeep:	$5261

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