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…is “the driver for thinking about information.”

A history of efforts to provide digital access to scholarly and legal materials; lessons for the future. A history of efforts to provide digital access to scholarly and legal materials; lessons for the future.

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…is “the driver for thinking about information.”

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  1. A history of efforts to provide digital access to scholarly and legal materials; lessons for the future

  2. A history of efforts to provide digital access to scholarly and legal materials; lessons for the future

  3. A history of efforts to provide digitalaccessto scholarly and legal materials; lessons for the future • …is “the driver for thinking about information.” • “[T]here will be no access through time without preservation.” • Preserving Legal Materials in Digital Formats(2005)

  4. Basic Issues for Legal Texts 2010 1800 2000 1900 • Authentication • Preservation • Accessibility

  5. Legal Research = Search for Authority

  6. 2010 2000 1800 1900 • “How can I get this stuff?” • Little published U.S. case law • Reliance on English cases • Kirby’s Reports (1789): first “fully developed” volume of state law reports in the U.S.

  7. 2010 2000 1800 1900 • “Here comes the stuff!” • Requirements for written opinions • Appointments of official reporters • Wheaton v. Peters (1834) • Banks v. Manchester (1888) • James Kent

  8. 2010 2000 1800 1900 • “Whoa!! There’s way too much of this stuff!” • “multiplicity of reports” • Official v. unofficial • West Publishing Co.

  9. 2010 2000 1800 1900 “The West Century” “It is the work of the National Reporter System to make most available to the legal profession the law as the courts enunciate it, – to collect, arrange in an orderly manner and put into convenient and inexpensive form in the shortest possible time, the material which every judge and lawyer must use.” John B. West, A Symposium of Law Publishers (1889)

  10. 2010 2000 1800 1900 Rise of the great law libraries at law schools and bar associations Harvard Law Library Federal Depository Library Program (est. 1813) Unknown Book Lover

  11. 2010 2000 1800 1900 “The materials of our law seem to be marked by an accelerating birth rate, an almost non-existent mortality rate, and a serious resistance to contraception on the part of both judges and legislators…” Morris L. Cohen (1969)

  12. 2010 2000 1800 1900

  13. 2010 2000 1800 1900 New Questions/ Same Questions “How can I get this stuff?” “There’s (still) way too much of this stuff!” “Where did this stuff come from?” “Where did it go?”

  14. 2010 2000 1800 1900 • Does anyone care? • “While the issue of authenticated legal information appears to be of essential importance, are these really concerns for judges and attorneys? For most attorneys, free seems to be the guiding force, so accuracy and authenticity fall behind the desire for free legal information.” • Jason Wilson, “Screw authenticity. I just want it for free.”

  15. 2010 2000 1800 1900

  16. Basic Issues for Legal Texts 2010 1800 2000 1900 • Authentication • Preservation • Accessibility

  17. 2010 2000 1800 1900 Law.Gov Law.Gov Law.Gov Law.Gov Law.Gov Law.Gov Law.Gov Law.Gov Law.Gov Law.Gov Law.Gov

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