Yale Law School lillian goldman law library in memory of Sol Goldman annual report 2012–2013 message from the director I begin my introduction to this Annual Report neutral but expands the professional staff by shortly after presenting a talk on The Service streamlining our processes and making smart use of Centered Library of the 21st Century at the Chinese technology. We found the once commonly accepted and American Forum on Legal Information and Law ratio for staffing law libraries, which required two Libraries (cafll). This organization is composed of support staff personnel for every professional, has law library leaders from China and the U.S. who are been reversed, and the need for more highly skilled interested in sharing best practices for advancing professionals has been addressed by automating access to legal information around the world. By many of the more routine functions once handled by way of example drawn almost exclusively from our support personnel who also are more highly skilled experiences at the Lillian Goldman Law Library, my and productive than ever before. The impact of these talk focused on the central role contemporary law changes on the Lillian Goldman Law Library can be libraries play in legal education. Propelled by the seen in this Annual Report and affects all aspects of transformation of formats from print to digital and the library’s operations. the improved efficiencies enabled by technology, Despite our emphasis on services, our exceptional law libraries now have access to a richer array of collection of information resources distinguishes information resources than ever imagined, provide us from most other libraries. Thus, we continue to more user-centric spaces than in the past, and are collect aggressively in both print and digital formats, better positioned to offer a wide variety of services while minimalizing duplication and calibrating the responsive to the needs of contemporary students, right balance. As noted in the section on Collection legal educators, and scholars. In a nutshell, this Development, we aspire to have the most extensive describes the direction continued by the Lillian collections of law-related digital resources available Goldman Law Library over the 2012–13 academic anywhere, and this year we added over a dozen year: we are building on our strengths, which major new databases to our assortment of digital include superb collections in all formats, stunningly resources. But print, too, remains critically important beautiful facilities, and a talented and committed to our users, especially in those areas where digital staff who offer an ever-expanding array of substitutes are inadequate. As a result, our most personalized services. newsworthy new acquisitions of the past year To illustrate the concept of the service-centered were the rare books we acquired from the private library, I summarized twenty-one new services collection of Anthony Taussig, an English barrister offered at Yale that were neither available nor who over the course of many years assembled the contemplated until the current century; that is, most significant collection of printed law books none of these services were available prior to 2000. and manuscripts ever held in private hands. We These newer services range from scanning services worked jointly with our colleagues at the Beinecke and virtual reference, to online legal research Rare Book Library on this acquisition, so that they video tutorials and non-mediated interlibrary acquired all of the manuscripts from this collection, design borrowing, allowing users to directly request and we acquired a large swathe of important printed Yale Printing & Publishing Services books from partner libraries when those books law books, including the first printed English law photography are not at Yale. The development of these new book and a number of titles not available in any Shana Jackson, Teresa Miguel-Stearns, services responds to the evolving expectations other U.S. law library. This acquisition was made Harold Shapiro, Tyson Streeter, Mike Widener and needs of contemporary users. For example, as possible with the generous financial support of legal scholarship draws more on the use of data Yale Law School’s Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund and analysis, we added a librarian with data expertise advances our goal of maintaining one of the world’s and services for supporting this type of specialized premier legal history collections. work. Adding such services has been enabled by restructuring the library in a manner that is budget Collections in any format, whether print or digital, reference and instruction; and Scott Matheson, who to a full level of staffing. The work of Jason Eiseman must be accessible to users, and this requires was hired initially as a reference librarian, is now as Head of Technology Services has continued to investing in cataloging and information discovery the Associate Librarian for Technical Services. This be an important element in supporting innovative tools. Thanks to the generous support of one of our shared understanding of the contributions made reference work for faculty and included the library’s graduates, Lizbeth Moody ll.b. ’59, we were able to across the library is one of the goals of the Spotlight first publication of a faculty book in both ebook and devote a full-time cataloger to uncovering the rich Series described in the next section on Library print-on-demand formats. He also took the lead in resources of our rare book collection this past year. Administration; working in multiple areas takes bringing responsive website design techniques to Consequently, one of our major accomplishments this concept one step further and creates invaluable our library’s website. We were not surprised that was completing the cataloging of the rare books we synergies across departments. he won this year’s American Association of Law acquired earlier from the Association of the Bar of Libraries (aall) Emerging Leader Award, and we are Shifting attention from collections to services, the New York, while also bringing most of our other rare proud to add this to the other two accolades the creative work of our Access Services department book cataloging up-to-date. Further, by the end of library won from aall this year: the Innovations in has been remarkable for winning the praise and the year we completed our search for a new Digital Technology Award and the Publications Award. support from our users. One of the most successful Resources Librarian who will help us make better achievements this year is the continuing expansion Finally, worthy of attention is our library-sponsored use of the best technologies and search engines of the Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository. and published Oral History Series, which documents for making our digital resources fully discoverable. This open access database now holds more than the history of the Yale Law School through Lastly, after 40 years of superb service, Mary Jane 5,000 articles including nearly every article interviews conducted with former deans and faculty Kelsey’s excellent transition planning enabled Scott published by a Yale Law School faculty member in an members who have strong institutional ties to Matheson to succeed her mid-year as the Associate academic law review over the past 100 years. These the law School. Five of these oral histories were Librarian for Technical Services without any articles have been downloaded over two million published in 2012 and 2013 and are now available disruption in our operations. times from users across the globe, making Yale Law in print. The interviews were conducted by Bonnie Our library’s breadth of print and digital resources School scholarship freely available to anyone in the Collier, former Associate Librarian for Administration, in foreign and international law, as well as its world who has a connection to the Internet. Other and feature Abraham S. Goldstein, Louis H. Pollak, exceptional staff resources in this area, is another notable accomplishments include the introduction Eugene V. Rostow, Leon Lipson, and Boris Bittker. one of our unique strengths. Few other law libraries of a Deliver on Demand service, which follows up on I hope this Annual Report conveys the many offer a range of foreign and international legal our very successful Scan on Demand service. Both accomplishments the Lillian Goldman Law Library research materials comparable to Yale, where are intended to make our print resources nearly as managed to achieve over the past year. It is a serious comparative legal research can be conducted accessible as those in digital formats. wonderful privilege to work at this institution with the support and assistance of highly trained The Reference and Instructional Services department surrounded by a community of creative and brilliant professionals. The exhibits, educational programs, plays a key role in assisting our users in making colleagues who share a common goal of using our and acquisitions described in the foreign and sense of the maze of information resources they information resources to help advance the teaching international law section of this report highlight confront at Yale. The addition of Sarah Ryan as and research missions of the Yale Law School some of the major achievements of the year. Empirical Research Librarian at the start of the community while striving to be “the best academic Also notable is the lead role members of the academic year enabled the library to expand its law library in the world.” Foreign and International Law Collection play in depth of support for those working with data, S. Blair Kauffman the reference and instructional programs offered and she has been working with other librarians to Law Librarian and Professor of Law by the library. For example, two members of the improve their skills in this evermore critical area of foreign and international law team, Evelyn Ma reference support. Also, under the new leadership and Ryan Harrington, also serve in the general of Julie Graves Krishnaswami, our instructional reference rotation assisting library users.