Preservation

Preservation

In addition to meeting the current needs of its patrons, the Law Library also has an obligation to acquire and preserve historical legal materials as a resource for future scholarship. To this end, preservation of materials is an important element of collection management at the Law Library.

Within the scope of collection management, preservation efforts include:

Proper shelving and handling procedures and resources;
Specialized care and storage of materials as protection from damage and deterioration;
Recommending conversion to a different format, where the quality of the original format, the importance of the materials, or the requirements of users and programs so dictate;