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FLAG Project: Survey Results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Peter Clinch
Peter Clinch
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This article reports the results of a survey into the needs of academic law librarians and researchers in relation to foreign and international legal materials. Peter Clinch is Project Manager of the Foreign Law Guide (FLAG) Project at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. This is an edited version of the survey report; for the full text see the FLAG Project Web site: http://ials.sas.ac.uk/rslp/forlegal.htm
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The Foreign Law Guide (FLAG) Project, which aims to build a Web inventory to the holdings of foreign legal materials in university and college libraries throughout the United Kingdom, is one of about 12 collection management projects, funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme (RSLP). It is believed to be the only project which included within its research proposal the requirement to carry out a survey of user needs to assist in the design of the end-product of the project: the Web inventory.The purpose of the survey, as stated in the bid document, would be to:

establish the present and future requirements for foreign, comparative and international legal materials

discover what information researchers need on foreign law, how they obtain it and what they expect libraries to provide

provide essential information for decision-making on collection development and influence the production of the law Web map.

The Project Management Committee considered it important to attempt to obtain the views of as wide a range of users of foreign legal materials as possible. Attempts were made to include (a) non-lawyers working in related disciplines, (b) research support staff and PhD. students as well as academics, and (c) law librarians and information officers.

Type
Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , Summer 2001 , pp. 45 - 58
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2001

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