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Passing the Baton:

One Intermediate Technology Meets Another

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Jerry Dupont
Jerry Dupont
Affiliation:
Jerry Dupont has been the Executive Director of the Law Library Microform Consortium since its founding in 1976. Prior to that he served as Assistant Director and founding Director respectively of the University of Michigan and University of Hawaii law libraries. He can be contacted at [email protected]
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I work for the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC), a cooperative with some 900 participating members. Most are in the US, with a fair number in Canada and some in Australia, the UK and sixteen other countries. For over a quarter of a century LLMC has provided its member libraries with a wide range of legal titles, including much Commonwealth material, on microfiche. We grew hoary in that task, but have been rejuvenated in a new role. We've just launched an on-line digital library, LLMC-Digital, which will provide vastly enhanced access to our materials. The foundation for this endeavour is our backfile of 92,000 volumes (some 49-million page images) filmed during the past 27 years. To that base will be added every new title acquired in LLMC's future filming or scanning.

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Research Article
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 3 , Issue 3-4 , Winter 2003 , pp. 191 - 195
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2003

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