Public Services Issues with Rare and Archival Law Materials

By Michael Widener

This helpful book gives practical advice and information on providing access to rare and archival law collections and promoting their use by scholars, teachers, and students. Public Services Issues with Rare and Archival Law Materials offers detailed instructions for the care and use of rare legal materials, ideas for creating exhibits and outreach activities (including Web sites), suggestions for working with early books on Roman and canon law, practical techniques for using archives in litigation, and a bibliography of law-related archives and rare-book librarianship. In addition, it discusses the ethical implications of using archives and the research habits of legal scholars. An essential reference for law librarians and archivists.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789014076
• ISBN13: 9780789014078
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.5"