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Per the 2021 LSO budget, the @ccla_abcc library grant will be reduced by 14% next year, a huge cut to our budget. Thank you to our Board and External Relations committee for this statement and for believing so strongly in the value of law libraries & law librarianship. https://twitter.com/ccla_abcc/status/1334546689957523458
Law libraries are critical, but it *does* come at a price. In the 13 years I’ve been at the CCLA, the LSO library levy has moved incrementally downward while publishing costs have soared.
The levy for 2021 is $159.00.
What could $159.00 get you if you used it on your own?
The levy for 2021 is $159.00.
What could $159.00 get you if you used it on your own?
That $159 also needs to go towards the staff you need (and want!) to help you select, purchase, find, and learn to use any of the print or electronic products.
It also pays for:
- computers
- internet
- a phone to call your librarian at
- copiers
- desks
- and and and
It also pays for:
- computers
- internet
- a phone to call your librarian at
- copiers
- desks
- and and and
Courthouse libraries have been making it work for so long, but it is hard and collections have and will continue to suffer, and the line from *that* to a reduced competency of the Bar is a straight one.
Anyways, here’s what you can do:
Let your benchers know the libraries are valuable to you. It’ll be 2022 budget time before you know it.
If libraries aren’t valuable to you personally, please have a think on how they might be valuable to your fellow lawyers.
Let your benchers know the libraries are valuable to you. It’ll be 2022 budget time before you know it. If libraries aren’t valuable to you personally, please have a think on how they might be valuable to your fellow lawyers.
Support your local association in 2021 if you can, as many use member dues to supplement the lawyer levy from the LSO / the LIRN grant. For those associations who do that (
) reduced membership fee revenue for 2021 will compound the cuts to the library budget.
Please don’t sneak out, or borrow and keep forever, our books! Margins are thin and re-purchasing missing books stinks. (Had to get that last librarian plead in there.)
