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The Library Without Walls: Striving for an Excellent Law Library Service Post-Earthquake

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2015

Sara Roberts
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Abstract

This paper is adapted from a presentation given by Sara Roberts at the 2015 BIALL Annual Conference. On September 4th 2010 Christchurch suffered the first of a series of catastrophic earthquakes which continued over the next two years and damaged much of the city. During this time the University of Canterbury suffered greatly, both through physical damage to the campus and from a loss of students willing to come and study in Christchurch. Subsequently, the dedicated Law Library on campus was closed and it was necessary to reassess the service in the light of severely reduced resources. More than four years on from that first earthquake, the law collection is situated in the central library on campus, and the number of professional law librarians supporting the service has reduced from four to two. Yet despite the changes the service has not diminished and, indeed, is stronger in some areas.

Keywords

disaster recoverybusiness continuity planningacademic librarieslaw librariesNew Zealand
Type
Selection of Papers from the Biall Conference 2015
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , December 2015 , pp. 252 - 260
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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Footnotes

1 Anna Turner, “11,000 quakes since Sept 2010” Stuff (17 January 2013) <http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-2011/8190585/11-000-quakes-since-Sept-2010> accessed 3 September 2015.

2 Wong, Yi Ling and Green, Ravonne, ‘Disaster Planning in Libraries’ (2007) 4(3) Journal of Access Services 71, 76CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Ibid.

4 University of Canterbury Library, Continuity Plan (version 2, May 2009) 3.

5 Cervone, H. Frank, ‘Disaster recovery and continuity planning for digital library systems’ (2006) 22(3) OCLC systems and services: International digital library perspectives 173, 174CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Charley Mann, “Sudden change shocks law students” Stuff (6 September 2012) <http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/7624294/Sudden-change-shocks-law-students> accessed 3 September 2015.

7 Tilley, Elizabeth, ‘Personalized boutique service: critical to academic success?’ (2013) 19(1) New Review of Academic Librarianship 78, 82CrossRefGoogle Scholar.