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Friday, January 7, 2000 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m..	Virginia Suite A Marriott Wardman Park Hotel Lobby Level
AALS Committee on Libraries and Technology
Leina'ala Robinson Seeger, University of Hawaii, and Chair and Program Co-Chair Marci A. Hamilton, Yeshiva University, Co-Chair Daniel W. Martin, Pepperdine University, Program Co-Chair

Robbing Peter to Pay Paul?: Funding Law School Information and Technology

Moderator:
	Leina'ala Robinson Seeger, University of Hawaii
Speakers:
	Penelope A. Hazelton, University of Washington Mickie A. Voges, Chicago-Kent College of Law Stephen Zamora, University of Houston

This program will focus on the budgeting dilemmas that beset law schools in this age of flat, and often declining, budgets. Squeezed by escalating pressures from constituents, consumers and peers to do more with less, law school coffers are stretched thin by the rush to adopt and upgrade ever more expensive, rapidly changing technologies and the competing push to nurture and maintain traditional library collections preferred and heavily utilized by influential members of our communities.

Panelists will consider and comment on such budget related factors as: spending on books versus spending on digital equivalents of books—is everything really online? the belief that a virtual library is a less expensive substitute for a traditional library space planning for the collection-of-the-future, including off-site storage as an alternative to building expansion spending on related technology (labs, multimedia in the classroom) and its impact on institutional budgets preservation concerns posed by digital information creation of revenue-generating projects staffing, governance, and organizational issues strategic initiatives to augment flat budgets. The challenges and choices these factors pose to deans, faculty, librarians, and students will be explored by the panelists. A question and answer session will follow.

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