Post on 30-Dec-2015
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Mary Catherine LennonLS 531
Dr. Rachel Fleming-May
Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center
Mission Statement
“To serve the teaching and research needs of the faculty and students of the Fredric G. Levin College of Law.”
Fall Semester Regular & Finals Hours
Library Monday – Thursday 7:30 A.M. - 11:30 P.M. Friday 7:30 A.M. - 7:30
P.M. Saturday 11:30 A.M. - 6:00 P.M. Sunday 10:00 A.M. - 11:30 P.M.
Final Exams Monday – Saturday until 2 A.M Sunday until 5:30 P.M.
Reference Assistance Hours
Monday-Thursday 9:00 A.M. - 9:00 P.M. Friday 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Saturday 11:30 A.M. - 6:00 P.M. Sunday 11:30 A.M. - 7:30 P.M.
Closings & Alternate Hours
Closings All Home Football Games Labor Day (Sun.) Thanksgiving (Thurs. & Fri.)
Shorter Hours Labor Day (Mon.) Homecoming Veterans Day Thanksgiving (Wed.)
Collection Size
629,199 volumes in open stacks Students also have access to:
3.5 million+ volumes in UF libraries
43 million titles throughout the world
Databases that provide access to: Federal and state laws Periodicals News articles Background materials
Collection Expenditures*
Library Materials account for 36.35% of total budget
$875,726 Monographs = $401,733 (46%) Current Serials = $473,993 (54%)
Electronic Materials = $247,534 28.27% of materials expenditures Electronic Serials = 52.22% of current serials expenditures 10.27% of total budget
*From ARL Law Library Data Tables 2005-2006
Since When & According to Whom?
Faculty members keep “personal” libraries in their offices.
Library used to buy them.
Now, faculty has to buy out of their own discretionary budgets.
Staff Size
Full-time faculty: 9 Tenure: 5 Tenure track: 3 Non Tenure: 1
Library Employees Visiting: 1 Total: 33
Staff Lounge
Law Library Faculty Degrees
Masters: 9 Multiple Masters: 1 Doctor of Education: 1 Doctor of Philosophy: 1 Juris Doctor: 6
Management & Personnel Issues
Within the next two years, two librarians are retiring Another is planning to leave to take another position Only one librarian does not have a JD Have 7 years to earn tenure 12 month schedule Sabbaticals are granted, just not the last year before
retirement.
Collection Management
Librarians are liaisons to different areas of law.
UF vs. NYU for #1 LLM program in Tax Law in the country. So, Tax Law has carte blanche.
That said, oversight is fairly loose. If the money is there, librarians can order whatever they see fit…requests, Yankee slips, librarians’ recommendations.
Materials Processing and Technical Services
All processing is done in house.
Do download some catalog records from vendors.
Most is done by staff cataloguer…quality issue.
Budget & Financing*
Total Library Expenditures = $2,409,100 Salaries & Wages = $1,392,139
Professional Salaries & Wages = $776,424
Library Materials = $875,726 Contract Binding = $20,919 Other Operating Expenditures = $120,316
*From ARL Law Library Data Tables 2005-2006
Budget & Financing*
Total Library Expenditures = $2,409,100 Salaries & Wages = 57.79% Professional Salaries & Wages
55.77% of salaries & wages 32.23% of total
Library Materials = 36.35% Contract Binding = .87% Other Operating Expenditures = 4.99%
*From ARL Law Library Data Tables 2005-2006