Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-hc48f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-18T15:18:46.295Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Recession Mounts the Ivory Tower: How the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale has met the Challenges Posed by a Declining Economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 December 2010

Femi Cadmus  and
Blair Kaufmann
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The global recession has wrought havoc on the budgets of libraries worldwide, forcing administrators to reassess priorities and change direction midcourse. Privately funded academic libraries which typically rely heavily on large endowments have not been exempt and in fact have probably been hit the hardest. The challenges encountered by this long drawn financial crisis have ultimately provided opportunities to reassess priorities and conduct business more efficiently. This paper was presented at the BIALL Conference in June 2010 by Femi Cadmus and Blair Kaufmann.

Keywords

academic law librariesUnited Statesbudgetsrecession
Type
BIALL Conference Papers
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , December 2010 , pp. 275 - 279
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2010

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Footnotes

1 AALL Economic Outlook Survey 2009 http://aallnet.pbworks.com/f/Economic_Outlook_Survey_Results_April09.pdfGoogle Scholar

2 AALL Economic Outlook follow-up Survey October 2009 http://aallnet.pbworks.com/f/Comparative+Summary.pdf

3 The Yale Daily News reported that Harvard's endowment dropped by 30 percent and Yale's by 30.4 percent in the 2009 fiscal year. Zuckerman, Esther “Harvard's Endowment sees Sharp Decline” (11th Sep 2009) Yale Daily News http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/11/harvards-endowment-sees-sharp-decline/

4 Malan, Douglas S. “The Final Chapter for Court Libraries?” (25th Nov 2009) Connecticut Law Tribune http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202435819329

5 http://aallnet.pbworks.com/Examples-from-Law-Libraries