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标  题: Top Twenty Law Schools Based on the Library Index
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Top Twenty Law Schools Based on the Library Index

The size of a law school's library will always be a major consideration in evaluating the status of the
school. The Library Index is a measure of a library's size in terms of its hard bound and microform
volumes. It also includes the ratio between the number of volumes and student enrollment and the
ratio between volumes and number of faculty members. You would expect the oldest law schools
in America, like Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, to have well-established libraries with extremely
large hard volume collections, and they do. Schools that are over one hundred years old,
well-funded, and well-endowed should have large volume counts, but newer law school libraries
should not necessarily be discounted by their lower hard volume count. Younger libraries tend to
grow their microform and electronic collections, knowing how much space and resources it takes
to store and maintain a hard volume collection. The most efficient way of maintaining a law library
today is to look at alternative formats, of which microforms is one. Currently, the ABA counts only
hard volumes and microform volumes, a technology that has been around for about 40 years.
Libraries are looking to the newer technologies, such as networks, compact discs, and the Internet,
to increase the resources available to their patrons. These library resources will be measured
before long. Individuals comparing law schools are encouraged to inquire at individual schools
about their newest technologies.

   1.Harvard University
   2.Yale University
   3.University of Iowa
   4.University of Minnesota
   5.Columbia University
   6.University of California Berkeley
   7.University of Illinois
   8.Louisiana State University
   9.Wayne State University
  10.Indiana University
  11.New York University
  12.District of Columbia
  13.University of Chicago
  14.University of Michigan
  15.Ohio State University
  16.Southern University
  17.Cornell University
  18.University of California Davis
  19.University of Pennsylvania
  20.Northwestern University

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