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85 Law Libr. J. 767 (1993)
The New England Law Library Consortium Experience

handle is hein.journals/llj85 and id is 777 raw text is: The New England Law Library Consortium Experience* Martha Berglund Crane* M-s. Crane describes the beginnings of the New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO) and traces the evolution of its resource-sharing projects. In particular, she highlights the NELLCO CD-ROM Union Catalog project experience. History and Organization The New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO) was created in 1983 in direct response to a suggestion from several New England law school deans. The deans were trying to deal with rising library costs (although many law library directors consider escalating library costs a myth in terms of total law school budget increases). The directors quickly took it upon themselves to work together to form a consortium to deal with these apparent rising costs, the legal information explosion, and the impact of technology, as well as to provide a mechanism for resource sharing and mutual benefit. The directors preferred to be in charge of the consortium rather than have the deans control it. This organization is here today because sixteen law library directors took the initiative to resolve to cooperate. Consortium members want to provide full access to the comprehensive regional collection of legal research materials by law students, faculty, the legal community, lawyers, judges, and the general public in the New England region. This user population is approximately 200,000 patrons. NELLCO, which is composed of academic, private, and government libraries, is incorporated in Massachusetts as a nonprofit organization. The Consortium is governed by a Board of Directors from each of the member libraries. The Executive Board is composed of the elected officers, all of whom serve two-year terms. The bylaws require that there be two directors' meetings per year. In 1991 we changed from consensus voting to majority rule. * 0 Martha Berglund Crane, 1993. This is a revised version of papers presented at the 84th and 85th Annual Meetings of the American Association of Law Libraries, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 24, 1991, and San Francisco, California, July 18, 1992. ** Executive Director, New England Law Library Consortium, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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