Access Policies for FDLP Collections in Law Libraries
1. REACHING OUR PEAK: RESOLVING ISSUES FOR LAW LIBRARIES IN THE FEDERAL DEPOSITORY LIBRARY PROGRAM Access Policies for FDLP Collections in Law Libraries Kate Irwin-Smiler
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8. COMMON RESTRICTIONS Restrictions Percent of Policies Number of Policies Identification 21.9% 34 Hours 20.0% 31 Reference Interview 9.7% 15 Identification & Hours 4.5% 7 Identification & Reference Interview 2.6% 4 Hours & Reference Interview 2.6% 4 No Restrictions 58.1% 90
12. RESTRICTIONS BY LOCATION Top 10: 41 libraries (26.5%); Next 10: 17 (11.0%); Outside: 97 (62.6%) Restriction Top 10 Cities Next 10 Cities Outside Top 20 Identification 39.0% 23.5% 14.4% Hours 24.4% 23.5% 17.5% Reference Interview 29.3% 0.0% 3.1% ID & Hours 9.8% 5.9% 2.1% ID & Ref. Interview 9.8% 0.0%* 0.0% Hours & Ref. Interview 4.9% 0.0%* 2.1% No Restrictions 31.7% 58.8% 69.1%
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Editor's Notes
Based on academic libraries; policies posted on the web Jan/Feb 2010 Top half of chart lists all occurences of the individual restriction whether that appears alone or in conjunction with another restriction 50 libraries had only ONE type of restriction ID only 14.8% (23/155) Hours only 12.9% (20/155) Ref Int only 4.5% (7/155) Bottom of chart shows the occurrence of overlapping restrictions –policies with multiple restrictive provisions. NO ONE had all three restrictions
Do these restrictions appear more in urban or rural locations? Used Census MSAs (2009 population estimate) Top 10 (4.5M), Next 10 (2.55M-4.49M), and others (2.54M and smaller) - #1 – NYC, 19M Note: Denver is cut off city, at 2.52M population (#21) Limitation: position of campus within urban areas hard to determine Explain layout – Groupings across the top (top 10, next 10, other), then types of access restriction down the side. So if you look across the rows, you can see that with one exception, these restrictions are more common in the larger cities, and get less common as your city gets less populous. This trend holds for the multiple restriction libraries. The exception is the Reference Interview requirement, but remember that this is the least common restriction to start with.
Privately funded – Southwestern Law School Primarily to serve the needs – Arizona, v. common theme – Golden Gate, Yale, Northwestern, WNEC, Missouri, Franklin Pierce
Welcome – Thomas Cooley Unimpeded access – Tulsa All gov docs avail – LSU Encouraged to visit – chicago Community at large – WNEC All individuals - Rutgers
Please note: I don’t mean “discouraging” in a judgmental way. Not picking on these libraries – valid reasons to post policies with stricter requirements. (Non-docs patrons trying to use docs to get into the library for other resources, even if you don’t generally enforce those policies; requirements from the parent organization) Closed to public – Golden Gate Only visitors - CWRU Email – Penn Specific docs - touro Fails to register: Franklin Pierce
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