- Outlines how library staff at the University of South Australia overcame the dual challenges of strict time frame and limited budget to establish a high quality special library to support a news undergraduate law degree.
- Challenges:
- Identifying core legal material and integrating this into a crowded library.
- It was difficult securing complete sets of authorised law reports for Australia and England.
- Legislation - only Cth acts as passed and reprints and SA acts as passed and reprints.
- Online collection is more extensive - Big 3 databases; journals databases; ebooks.
- First class graduate in 2010 - big need was providing legal reference training to the rest of the UniSA library staff.
- After hours reference service via phone, email, chat.
- Information literacy training - legal research workshop; an online tool - self paced info literacy resource, adapted from Deakin.
- They found that there's very little recent literature about the establishment of new libraries in Australia.