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Reaping the Digital Dividend: Is it Time to Take the Great Leap?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Nicholas Pengelley
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Five years ago I wrote about some of the key issues and problems that confronted academic law libraries, and speculated about what the future might hold. I discussed trends in legal education and developments in legal research instruction; the changing physical environment of the library, including an idea that was once anathema, the growing move to allow patrons to eat and drink in the library. Time has passed all too quickly and there have been many momentous changes in the world, including the trauma of September 11, 2001, and the protracted war in Iraq.

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , Winter 2006 , pp. 513 - 525
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Copyright © 2006 by the International Association of Law Libraries 

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