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This report closely
examines trends for law libraries in materials spending,
technology purchases, personnel and space allocation, web use
and other issues. The study presents detailed data on spending
on journals, books,newspapers and magazines, print reporter,
eBooks, online databases and other information vehicles, as
well as data on salaries and overall budget, in aggregate, and
as a percentage change from prior years. Data presented
on the extent of materials spending accounted for by print
resources and plans for both print resource and digital
resource spending for the future.
In addition to spending
data the report examines law library plans in areas such as
cloud computing, tablet computer and eBook readers, use of
blogs and other social media, including extensive data on the
extent of use of specific legal blogs by law
librarians.
The study also covers
policies on cost recovery of online database expenses, giving
detailed information on charge backs and the extent to which
clients pay for online searches, with data for both external
and internal clients of the library, as well as data on how
the policies governing these charge backs have changed in
recent years, or may change in the future.
