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Proposed Change to ABA Standard 601: Written Assessment of Law Library Effectiveness

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The recent proposed change to ABA Standard 601(a)(3) , calls for the removal of a written assessment of the effectiveness of the library in achieving its mission and realizing its established goals.  Standard 601. Library and Information Resources, General Provisions Explanation of Changes: The current version of Standard 601(3)(a) was developed during the Comprehensive Review as a method of involving a law library in the process of strategic planning required of a law school. It was envisioned that the planning and assessment taking place for a law school (under what was then Standard 203) would incorporate the work done by the library under this new Standard. To ensure that incorporation, it was decided that a written assessment should be completed by the library. However, when the requirement for strategic planning for a law school was removed during a later phase of the Comprehensive Review, no change was made to the new Standard 601. As a result,