Cornell University A Year in Review 2011 /2012 Message from the Director

As I reflect on my first year as Law I have often been asked if the library still Librarian, it is gratifying to read through gets foot traffic. The answer is “yes.” The the pages of our annual report to see how library is frequently busy, and usage of amazingly busy and productive a year it the library continues to be evidenced by has been. I invite you to also read through well-worn carpets and circulation statistics this report for an overview of what the which are on the upward trend. Last winter, Cornell Law Library has been doing. Much our library was featured in Flavorwire as of what we have accomplished has been one of the world’s 25 most beautiful college made possible through the efforts of a libraries and the Gould Reading Room was dynamic team of professional librarians beautifully depicted. To further enhance and support staff, who wholeheartedly users’ experience in our wonderful space, embrace our service mission to the law a designated eating area was added in school, the university community, and the spring and planning began to create our friends at large. I would also like to a comfortable seating area in one of the acknowledge the unwavering support of reading room alcoves. We expanded our our benefactors, listed on the last page of virtual presence on social media platforms, this publication. including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The latter features videos of faculty book The library continues to anticipate and talks and will also host oral histories of the proactively meet the dual challenges of in the near future. space constraints and flat budgets, which have made a significant impact on our On the personnel front, our long-serving collections. Despite these challenges, Associate Law Librarian, Pat Court, and our focus remains on maintaining a Head of Research Services, Jean Callihan, first-rate collection by focusing on retired at the end of the spring semester. the acquisition of scholarly materials We also welcomed new librarians into necessary to support the research needs positions created to respond to rapid of our faculty and students, which include changes in library operations prompted expanding our digital offerings. With by the digital era. The newly created current and forthcoming law school position of Continuations Management renovation projects, we are using space Librarian was filled by Jackie Magagnosc more effectively than ever. We have started in November 2011; a Digital Resources the process of reassessing our collection Librarian, Nina Scholtz, was hired in the and moving infrequently used materials spring of 2012; and Dan Blackaby joined to the Annex, the library’s remote storage the professional staff as Technology facility. More information on this move Services Librarian in early summer. can be found in the collections section In the coming year, we intend to revisit of this report. We are also forging ahead our strategic directions and launch a new with special projects, which fulfill our initiative in e-book lending. It promises mission of making our excellent resources to be another exciting and vibrant year, discoverable by our patrons at home and and I extend a warm invitation to visit worldwide. In the spring, we launched the library in person or virtually through the library’s digitized trials pamphlets our website or by following us on social collections website, featuring trials from media. the late 1700s through the 1800s. This project, spearheaded by the Law Library’s Femi Cadmus Thomas Mills in collaboration with Cornell Edward Cornell Law Librarian & University Library, was made possible by Associate Dean for Library Services a grant from the Save America’s Treasures Grant Program.

Compiled by Thomas Mills Photography by Carol Clune, Thomas Mills, and Chris O’Hara Collections

Collection development trends that electronic resources: the Law Library States and, similar to NEFLLCG, aims began with the financial crisis in 2008 can subscribe to a resource and pay an to build collaborative relationships continued in the 2011/2012 fiscal annual subscription fee or purchase across academic law libraries. year. Namely, the collections budget perpetual rights to an e-resource was held flat as the price for legal and pay a much smaller annual In light of the fact that the Dawson materials and the cost of shipping maintenance fee. We tend to opt for Rare Book Room will be closed due to continued to rise. In response, the the second option, even though the the Myron Taylor Hall construction, Law Library’s collection development up-front costs are greater. Electronic the Law Library held a series of open policy continued its transition away databases the Law Library purchased houses in February, March, and from a “just in case” model towards in the 2011/2012 fiscal year include: April to give students and faculty an a collections policy that is more opportunity to see highlights from the tailored to the immediate research • The module of rare book collection in the grandeur needs and interests of the faculty and the Making of Modern Law series of the rare book room itself. The open students. This transition has included • The American Indian Law houses proved popular and visitors an emphasis on purchasing more Collection (Hein OnLine) enjoyed seeing documents from the electronic resources for the collection, • Congress and the Courts (Hein Nuremberg Collection, the copy of which is a trend that will continue OnLine) the Napoleonic Code presented to as the Law Library is slated to lose • Foreign and International Law Napoleon’s sister, and the Statutes of approximately 40-45 percent of its stack Resources (Hein OnLine) the Province of Pennsylvania printed New Popular Reading Collections space in the renovation and expansion • Foreign Relations of the United and sold by Benjamin Franklin, among During the spring 2012 semester, the of Myron Taylor Hall. States (Hein OnLine) other treasures. Law Library introduced a popular read- • The History of International Law ing collection, which has both non- From a collections perspective, this past Collection (Hein OnLine). In addition to the open houses legal popular fiction and nonfiction year has also been focused on getting and classes taught for faculty using books. Books are chosen from best- the collection ready for the eventual Moving towards a narrower, more materials from the rare book and seller lists and include such titles as The loss of space. Thus, a good portion of tailored collection policy has made special collections, a number of Litigators by John Grisham, Steve Jobs the year was spent on cancelling print collaboration with other academic projects involving these materials by Walter Isaacson, and Too Big to Fail materials. Areas of the collection that law libraries more important. Thus, began in the last year. Through a by Andrew Ross Sorkin. The collection were most affected include looseleaf the Law Library has continued to grant from Save America’s Treasures expanded in fall 2012 to include e- services, student-edited law reviews, maintain and build cooperative program, the Law Library’s trial books and audiobooks via OverDrive, a digital distributor of downloadable and most of the National Reporter relationships with other major law pamphlet special collection is being digital resources. Law school students, system. The vast majority of this libraries. We are a long-standing conserved and digitized (see page 11 of faculty, and staff are able to download material remains available to Law member of the Northeast Foreign this report). The Law Library has also e-books and e-audiobooks via a link on Library users in electronic formats, Law Librarians Cooperative Group been helping law reform commissions the Law Library’s website. and we retained subscriptions to some (NEFLLCG), along with Harvard, Yale, in Liberia with research conducted of this material in paper at the request Columbia, Fordham, NYU, University in its Liberian law collection, and a of faculty. Back issues of cancelled of Pennsylvania, and Georgetown. new special collection focusing on the material are being moved to the This group shares information American jury system and its influence University’s high density storage, from and expertise about foreign and around the world was begun. which users can have a book or article international law resources, and allows delivered within 24 hours to the Law everyone access to the print collections Library circulation desk. of the entire group. The Law Library also participated in a broader Canceling print material freed up cooperative endeavor initiated by money in the collection budget to Harvard Law Library three years ago. acquire more electronic resources. This group includes most of the major Page 5 There are two acquisition models for academic law libraries in the United Information Management

The staff in Information Management Information Management and Access continued their intense focus on Services, staff began to inventory and cancellations during fiscal year barcode the rare collection in June. Figure A 2011/2012, nearly doubling the number of titles that were cancelled Transitions last year (see Figure A). American In November 2011, Jackie Magagnosc law reviews constituted a significant was promoted to the newly portion of the titles cancelled, and created position of Continuations various titles of the National Reporter Management Librarian. Jackie was system were also cancelled this fiscal originally hired into a staff position, year. Loose-leafs, treatises with and her promotion created a need supplementation, and other non-serial for an additional staff member. This continuations were also among the position was filled by Cynthia Lange, titles cancelled. who was hired in February 2012 to work half time in Access Services and Cancellations were driven not only half time in Information Management. by a need to conserve and reallocate A temporary, part-time employee, Figure B funds, but also in response to a Nicole Mormilo, was hired in June to planned renovation of Myron Taylor assist with the transfer of materials to Hall that will result in a 40-45 percent the Annex. Library Materials on the Move reduction in the Library’s stack capacity. The impact of cancellations Digital repository Now that construction is underway in is evident in the decreasing number In August 2011, a six-month-long Myron Taylor Hall, the Law Library is moving many of its print materials of print volumes added to the library’s process culminated in the launch of to Library’s collection during the past fiscal year, the online version of Zambia Social state-of-the-art high-density storage representing a decline of nearly 50% Science Journal, hosted on the Law facility, which is two miles from the over the past five years (see Figure B). Library’s digital scholarship repository. Law Library. The Library Annex is The repository, Scholarship @ Cornell a climate- and humidity-controlled The projected reduction in stack Law (http://scholarship.law.cornell. facility for materials from libraries space means that the Law Library, for edu/), started in 2003 to provide open, all over campus; in fact, it is now the first time, is sending material to global access to the scholarship of Figure C Cornell’s largest “library” in terms Cornell University Library’s off-site Cornell Law School faculty, students, of the number of volumes it holds. storage facility. Between January and visiting scholars. It currently Circulating resources housed at the Annex may be requested for use and and mid-May 2012, the Law Library hosts nearly 1,000 papers. In January delivered to the Law Library. The transferred 14,095 physical volumes to 2012, a staff member was assigned to Annex also has a reading room for the Annex. Unneeded duplicate copies work part-time on the retrospective on-site use. are being withdrawn (see Figure C) population of our digital repository. and recycled or targeted for sale as She was assisted in this work by two part of this project, which we expect law students, who uploaded articles to last for several years. Also related and supplied both descriptive and to the building renovation is a project subject metadata to enhance discover- to relocate all materials from the Rare ability. Between January and July 2012, Book Room, which is scheduled for 267 faculty articles were added to the demolition in November 2012. Most repository. During the fiscal year, the materials will be moved to the Annex total number of full-text downloads until a new rare book room is built. increased by 54%, to 477,838. Page 7 In a collaborative effort between Reference and Research Services

The Reference and Research Services five for-credit research courses Specifically, visiting scholars need Department had another successful and numerous research sessions in assistance with Westlaw, Lexis, and year and looks forward to continuing to doctrinal courses. The for-credit other online research databases. serve our users in new and innovative courses taught by librarians included Because most of the scholars are ways. Providing excellent research Administrative Law Research, from abroad, they typically request Student Research Prize services continues to be a multi-faceted Business Law Research, Foreign both a basic overview of American The 2011/2012 academic year was endeavor. We continue to staff the and International Research, Online legal resources in the Law Library’s the second year for The Cornell Law reference desk from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Legal Research and Resources, and collection and training on using Library Prize for Exemplary Student during the week, and we added Online Legal Research: Subscription the U.S. versions of the major legal Research. The winners from the 27 weekend desk hours on Sundays from Sources. These courses continue to be databases. submissions received were: 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. in response to student popular with students and, according • First place to Steven Madrid (2L) requests. In addition, we started to offer to evaluations, are very practical and for “Annexation of the Jury’s Role chat reference so that researchers can useful in preparing students for their in Res Judicata Disputes: The Silent get quick and convenient assistance academic work and legal careers. Migration from Question of Fact to online during the hours that the Question of Law” • Second place to Louis Guard (3L) desk is staffed. The department also Faculty research support is another for “Targeted Killing and Just War: uses social media to reach out to our important focus of the Reference and Reconciling Kill-Capture Missions users. Through our blog, InfoBrief Research Services Department. Each and the Combatant Civilian (http://infobrief.blogspot.com/), we reference librarian works with 10 Framework” provide users with research advice and to 12 members of the law faculty to Funding for the prizes is provided by an information about new databases and provide them with research and course endowment given to the Law Library other resources. Our blog is linked assistance. This includes training by Barbara Cantwell in honor of her to our Facebook and Twitter pages, student research assistants, conducting late husband, Robert Cantwell, a 1956 offering real-time current awareness of research for individual faculty graduate of Cornell Law School. research information. members, and research instruction in doctrinal courses and seminars. These Reference librarians are also heavily activities expanded collaboration involved in orientations and classroom between the Law Library and faculty teaching. In August, the reference and increased the number of requests librarians participated in the LL.M. from students for further research orientation program, instructing 75 assistance. After receiving research incoming international students on instruction in a course, students the basics of researching U.S. law over often seek out reference librarians for three two-hour sessions. Reference one-on-one discussions of effective librarians also provided instruction research strategies for papers and during the orientation programs for other course projects. This past year, new law journal associates and assisted reference librarians also provided students with research for their journal research consultations on a broad notes throughout the fall semester. range of topics ranging from tax to competitions are an area animal law to jury nullification. that research librarians have expanded their reach, helping teams with research Recently, the Law School has been resources and practices moots as they welcoming a growing number of prepare for competition. visiting scholars, who spend anywhere from a month to a full year in During the 2011/2012 academic residence. The Reference Department Page 9 year, reference librarians taught supports this constituency, as well. Access Services

The Access Services Department ex- library news and events on an LCD Room will be furnished with com- perienced a year of significant growth screen located near the circulation fortable seating to provide a place for in the 2011/2012 academic year. We desk. In the spring, a state-of-the- library users to relax and read or visit expanded our services, hired new art scanner with a book cradle and quietly with a colleague. Just outside staff, and began planning to redesign touchscreen was added to one of the the Reading Room, a designated eating Therapy Animals portions of the library to better accom- research alcoves. The scanner allows area now offers library users a conve- modate the needs of our users. The fall users to produce high-quality scans nient place to enjoy a snack without In April, the Law Library hosted started with a library open house to and save them to a flash drive or endangering books. Also in response Cornell Companions, a pet visitation introduce our services and staff to the email them to their accounts. to feedback provided by student focus program sponsored by the Cornell entering first-year class and others in groups, every library carrel is now University College of Veterinary equipped with modern, wheeled chairs Medicine. Three dogs and a llama the Law School community. The entire Planning also began in the spring to greeted law students in the student and, starting in the fall 2012 semester, Law Library staff took part in various improve space in the Reading Room lounge the week before finals to talks and demonstrations in the Read- in response to a student survey and use of the carrels will be restricted to help them de-stress and have a bit ing Room, which attracted over 150 focus groups conducted by the law law students only. of fun. Approximately 175 students students, faculty, and staff. library. An alcove in the Reading attended. The event was cosponsored by the Student Animal Legal Traffic at the circulation desk has Defense Fund and the Graduate and seen a steady increase over the past Figure A Professional Student Association three years (see Figure A) as students Finance Commission, which provided continue to borrow books, pick up refreshments. interlibrary loan materials, and check out material on course reserve. Interli- brary loan activity through traditional interlibrary loan, Borrow Direct (with other Schools), and Rapid (for articles sent electronically) has also held steady over the past three years. (See Figure B)

Over the past year, the type of material available for check out at the circula- tion desk has also expanded. Students, faculty, and staff can now check out a variety of electronic devices, including Figure B iPads, Kindle Fires, flashdrives, Mac- Book chargers, and digital recorders. For fun, the Law Library also offers a variety of board games and sports equipment for loan.

The Reading Room remains the center of activity in the Law School and continues to provide the aesthetic and functional environment for which it is well known. Patrons passing through the Reading Room are informed of Page 11 Trial Pamphlets Collection

In July 2011, the Law Library, along As a collection, these trial pamphlets also contains numerous accounts of with the Cornell University Library’s are a unique resource that captures a trials involving important events and Programs preservation and digitization formative period in American history figures in American history. From departments, started work on from the early years of the republic the Civil War period, the collection A Faculty Technology Workshop conserving and digitizing the Law through the turmoil of the Civil War includes pamphlets on the trial of in February featured Professors Clermont, Eisenberg, and Barceló Library’s Trial Pamphlet Collection. to the emergence of the United States John Brown for the raid on Harper’s presenting the technologies they use Ferry, the trial of John Surratt for The Library received a $155,700 grant as a leading industrial nation in the for research and in the classroom. from the federally funded program late 1800s. The pamphlets mirror the murder of President Abraham Professor Clermont demonstrated Save America’s Treasures, which is the political, social, and economic Lincoln, and the impeachment how he has successfully incorporated part of the National Trust for Historic transformation of the country during trial of President Andrew Johnson. the use of clickers to track student Preservation. The collection, purchased this period. While each individual trial Examination of these pamphlets shows responses during classroom in 1927, consists of more than 450 pamphlet is a valuable snapshot of a how information of keen interest to discussions. iPads and special apps pamphlets ranging in date from the period in American legal and social the general public was packaged and were central to Professor Eisenberg’s late 1600s to the late 1800s, with the history, by tracking the changes in presented via these unofficial sources. presentation, and Professor Barceló majority dating from the late 1700s to their content over time, researchers can provided an overview of software (other than PowerPoint!) that he the late 1800s. The pamphlets vary in trace the evolution of the United States Because cases were not officially uses for class presentations. Barbara reported until the 1830s, the collection length from as little as 20 pages to more as it was reflected in the courts. Friedman from Cornell Academic than 200 pages. is one of the few ways to research trials Technologies rounded out the The collection contains a wealth of from the 18th and early 19th centuries. workshop by presenting some of the Trial pamphlets are contemporary information about the daily lives of In addition, the pamphlets document useful academic technologies and accounts of trials that involved ordinary people of the period, with the transfer of legal traditions, and the services that her department provides prominent citizens or that dealt with a special focus on the treatment of biases within that system, from Great in support of instruction. especially controversial or lurid topics. women and minorities. They also Britain to the United States. Thus These pamphlets were produced reflect society’s attitude towards the collection is of immense value to The Law Library also hosted three quickly and inexpensively, and then issues such as capital punishment, the legal historians, and it serves as an workshops for library staff. In the fall, Agata Gluszek (B.A.’05, PhD) of sold on the street soon after the trial to institution of marriage, and abortion, important resource for sociologist, Parlez Consulting led a workshop on criminologists, and other scholars. a mass audience. The pamphlets were issues that American society still cross-cultural communication. In the printed on low-quality paper and they struggles with today. The collection spring, we had an information sharing were not bound, because they were not visit with Julian Aiken, Access Services meant to survive long past their initial Librarian from the Lillian Goldman use. Law Library at . Mr. Aiken provided the library staff with The content of the individual an overview of the operations of his pamphlets varies widely. They were department at Yale. The visit also gave sold to an eager public as both a form him an opportunity to learn about Cornell Law library’s operational of entertainment and as cautionary model. Finally, at the Law Library’s tales. Some include the details and annual retreat in June, Linda Bryan, illustrations of scandalous crimes and Associate Director for Organizational others include “execution sermons,” Development for Cornell University which were meant to serve as moral Library, led a workshop and discussion examples to the readers. Most of on communication styles. the pamphlets also have valuable information that is not available anywhere else, such as verbatim transcripts of testimony and arguments of counsel, depositions of parties, and Page 13 illustrations or copies of evidence used in the trial. Professional activities We gratefully acknowledge generous giving to the Dan Blackaby Member, CUL Fuerst Award Selection Committee. “From Library Catalog to Discovery Search Tools.” Participant, Immersion Program: Teacher and Cornell University Law Library by friends and alumni in 2011/2012: Presentation, annual meeting of the Southwestern Program tracks, Association of College and Research Association of Law Libraries, San Antonio, TX, Libraries, Ithaca, NY, May 2012. March 2011. Jackie Magagnosc Earl J. Bennett Memorial Book Fund Legal History Column Editor. LH&RB: Regular contributor, TSLL TechScans, http:// NEWSLETTER OF THE LEGAL HISTORY & RARE tslltechscans.blogspot.com. BOOKS SPECIAL INTEREST SECTION OF THE Member, Serials Standing Committee, American Jack G. Clarke (LL.B. ’52) International Law Collection Fund AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES. Association of Law Libraries Technical Services Member, Innovations in Technology Awards Special Interest Section. Committee, American Association of Law Libraries. Robert Cantwell (A.B. ’53 J.D. ’56) Law Library Fund Senior Member at Large of Board, American Thomas Mills Association of Law Libraries Computing Services “The History of Liberian Law at Cornell Law Library: Cuccia Honor with Books Fund Special Interest Section. 1950 to the Present.” Presentation, annual meeting of the Liberian Studies Association, Ithaca, NY, March Femi Cadmus 2012. Mary Heagen Cuccia Memorial Book Fund Who Let the Dog Out? Implementing a Successful Book Review Editor, International Journal of Legal Therapy Dog Program in an Academic Law Library Information. Arthur H. A.B. (’19 & LL.B. ’23) & Mary Marden Dean Library Fund (with Julian Aiken), 21 TRENDS IN LAW LIBRARY Co-Chair, Instruction Committee of the CUL Public MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY 13 (2011). Services Executive Committee. Things in Common: Challenges of the 19th and 21st Member, CUL Collection Development Executive Thomas B. Gilchrist Memorial Endowment Century Librarians, 14 GREEN BAG 2D 193 (2011). Committee. “Do Employees Have a Right to Happiness?” Member, CUL Information Literacy Taskforce. Sheppard Guryan (J.D. ’67) Law Library Endowment Presentation, Academic Law Libraries Special Member, Northeast Foreign Law Libraries Interest Section Middle Managers Breakfast, annual Cooperative Group. meeting of the American Association of Law Participant, Immersion Program: Teacher and Guryan Family Law Librarian’s Endowment Libraries, July 2011, Philadelphia. Program tracks, Association of College and Research “Who Let the Dog In: Service Innovation.” Libraries, Ithaca, NY, May 2012. Presentation, Computers in Libraries Conference, Kurt Hanslowe Memorial Fund Washington D.C., March 2012. Matt Morrison “Change Management.” Presentation, Lillian Chair, CUL Economic Status of Librarians Herbert D. Laube Endowment Fund Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School, New Haven, Committee. CT, May 2012. Member, Awards Committee, American Association of Law Libraries Academic Law Libraries Special Judge Alfred J. Loew (LL.B. ’21) Memorial Fund Jean Callihan Interest Section. Chair, Public Relations Committee, American Participant, Immersion Program: Teacher and Lindseth-Martina Library Director’s Discretionary Fund Association of Law Libraries Academic Law Libraries Program tracks, Association of College and Research Special Interest Section. Libraries, Ithaca, NY, May 2012. Member, CUL Academic Assembly Steering Nelson & Hattie Rosenbaum Book Fund Committee. Jean Pajerek Member, CUL Promotion Review Board for “How to Manage in an Age of Austerity” and “What Associate Librarians. Will the Implementation of RDA Mean for Me and Arthur H. Rosenbloom (J.D. ’59) Law Library Endowment My Library?” Presentations, annual meeting of the Pat Court American Association of Law Libraries, Philadelphia, Sonya A. Sasuta Memorial Fund Chair, Academic Law Libraries Special Interest July 2011. Section Breakfast and Business Meeting program, “Resistance is Futile: What Library Administrators annual meeting of the American Association of Law Need to Know about RDA.” Presentation, annual Libraries, July 2011, Philadelphia. meeting of the Association of Law Libraries of Membership Chair, Indiana University School of Upstate New York, October 2011, Syracuse. Library and Information Science Alumni Board Regular contributor, TSLL TechScans, http:// Law Library representative, CUL Public Services tslltechscans.blogspot.com. Executive Committee. Co-Chair, CUL RDA (Resource Description and Amy Emerson Access) Training Committee. “Using the Internet to Do Legal Research.” CLE Member, Cataloging and Classification Committee, seminar presentation, Tompkins County Bar American Association of Law Libraries Technical Association, Ithaca, NY, October 2011. Services Special Interest Section. Co-Chair, International Legal Research Interest Nina Scholtz Group, American Society of International Law. UCLA’s Department of Information Studies: Member, Schaffer Grant Fundraising Committee, California’s Oldest Existing Law School, SCALL American Association of Law Libraries Foreign, NEWSLETTER, Nov.-Dec. 2011, at 6. Comparative & International Law Special Interest Participant, Immersion Program: Teacher and Section. Program tracks, Association of College and Research Member, Instruction Committee of the CUL Public Libraries, Ithaca, NY, May 2012. Services Executive Committee. Member, CUL Academic Assembly Steering Committee.