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Library Computer System (LCS) and the Law Library: An Experience at the University of Illinois

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2019

Chin Kim  and
Frederic E. Mansfield
Chin Kim
Affiliation:
California Western School of Law, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
Frederic E. Mansfield
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign campus, Urbana, Illinois, U.S.A.
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The main campus of the University of Illinois, commonly known as the UI-UC campus, is located at the twin cities of Urbana-Champaign, about 135 miles south of Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. The campuses of Chicago Circle and the Medical Center, both located in Chicago, are other components of the University of Illinois system. Many departments and colleges of the UI-UC campus, especially in the fields of science and technology, have outstanding reputations for research achievement. The University Library ranks first in size among state universities and third among all universities in the United States. Its total collection reaches approximately 5.5 million volumes.

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International Journal of Law Libraries , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 1978 , pp. 57 - 74
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Copyright © International Association of Law Libraries 1978 

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References

1 As to discussions concerning the administrative status of the law library in an academic setting, see Miles 0. Price, The Place of the Law School Library in Library Administration, 13 Journal of Legal Education 230 – 238 (1960); Ervin H. Pollack, Autonomy versus Integration in Law Library Administration: A Reply to Dr. Price, 14 Journal of Legal Education 229–239 (1961); James F. Bailey, III, The Autonomous Law School Library: What It Can Mean To You, 68 Law Library Journal 274 – 287 (1975).Google Scholar

2 See LC to Freeze Card Catalog, 36 Library of Congress Information Bulletin 743–746 (No. 44, Nov. 4, 1977).Google Scholar

3 As to basic background information and a selected bibliography on OCLC, see Art Plotnik, OCLC for You – and Me?! A Humanized Anatomy for Beginners, 7 American Libraries 258 – 267 (No. 5, May 1976). See also Joe E. Hewitt, The Impact of OCLC, 7 American Libraries 268–275 (No. 5, May 1976).Google Scholar

4 As to Professor Atkinson's experience at the Ohio State University Library, see Atkinson, Hugh C., Circulation System of the Ohio State University, in E. Edelhoff and K.-D. Lehmann, Ed., On-line Library and Network Systems, (Frankfurt am Main, 1977, Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie, Sonderheft 23), at 94 – 103.Google Scholar

5 The UI-UC Library and other campus units which will tie into LCS have a total of over 40 shelf lists. Of these, the important ones are: the general Dewey Decimal shelf list for most of the titles in the Library; six music shelf lists; one children's collection shelf list; and the Law Library shelf lists.Google Scholar

6 At this time, no effort is being made to add serials in the Law Library to the serials record data base.Google Scholar

7 American Library Association, Anglo-American Cataloging Rules North American Text (Chicago: 19C7), Chapter 7, Serials, Rule 160 A, footnote 1 at foot of page 232.Google Scholar

8 Since a substantial part of the Law Library's collection consists of continuations, the non-circulating notation is very important.Google Scholar

9 Rodell, Fred, Woe unto you, lawyers ! (New York: 1939).Google Scholar

10 Martin, George M., Causes and Conflicts: The Centennial History of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Boston: 1970), at 329.Google Scholar