The University of Leicester is a pre-1992 University with a Law Faculty of more than 1000 students, 900 of whom are studying on qualifying law degree programmes. The collection that they use is housed in the main University Library, just next door to the Law Faculty. A large proportion of Leicester's total student population are distance learners, mostly studying on Masters' programmes. Partly because of this, the institution is extremely interested in pursuing electronic delivery of courses and has just appointed an e-learning professor, based in the central administration and responsible for introducing a radical new e-learning strategy. Leicester, like all other universities, will be introducing top up fees from the start of the next academic year. It is in this rapidly changing and increasingly demanding educational context that this comment on the JASB guidance should be placed.