Program C-3: Law Library Collections Post-Microform: Future Implications for the Newest Legacy Format

摘要

"Law Library Collections Post-Microform" was not set up as a debate between its two key speakers. Terrence McCormack and Jerry Dupont actually agreed on key issues, including the importance of foresight in preservation and the role microforms may play in that process. They both criticized the rash decisionmaking and rushed discard process that leads to the loss of microforms as an archival tool. Although they both spoke to law libraries' future as a place with fewer (or no) microform holdings, they focused on two different aspects of preparing for this future. McCormack addressed what libraries can and should do on their own, and Dupont dealt with how and why libraries should be working with groups like his own Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC).