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- From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
- Subject: Re: What's in a big law library?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.003026.25328@eff.org>
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- References: <1992Nov15.081016.8271@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:30:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.081016.8271@u.washington.edu> tzs@carson.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
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- >So, what do the large libraries and Harvard have that those of us with
- >medium or small libraries lack?
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- >For example, do they have the West state digests for each state and each
- >region so that one doesn't have to go to the Decennial Digest/General
- >Digest when looking for cases in a particular state? Do they have more
- >copies of the commonly-used things? Do they have a lot more weird material
- >that no one has looked at in fifty years? More historical material (e.g.,
- >older editions of things in addition to the current editions)?
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- The answer to these questions, for Texas at least, is "yes."
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- They have other nifty stuff too.
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- --Mike
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