One of the fun things about doing interlibrary loan work is that you get to see what other schools are requesting from us. (Actually, that's the most fun part of working on lending requests--the copying, the faxing, the scanning, and the boxing up and shipping of materials, all involve different levels of tediousness.) For the past few months, we've gotten several requests from one library for copies of country entries from Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia. Aside from these requests really being too much to copy without raising rather troubling copyright concerns (if you've never seen this work, many of the "chapters" would really qualify as books in their own right), one has to wonder why an academic law library doesn't have this set. More specifically, one wonders why an academic law library at a Tier 1 law school doesn't have this. I mean, it's not like we're talking about a CBA law school here, but one at a major university (it's certainly not in the bottom part of Tier 1). You'd think it would be a basic reference work for a large research collection. Bizarre.
