Recommended Publications for Legal Research, 2017 Volume

Save hours of collection development time with this easy-to-use and well-established tool. The new compiler, Patricia Roncevich, is a librarianship expert with years of experience! All the titles in this publication are classified by subject and ranked to help determine the most essential resources for your library.

About Recommended Publications for Legal Research

For nearly 40 years, this annual publication has been providing guidance to law librarians to assist them in developing collections that support the curriculum and research needs of their users. The volume for each year contains a subject index, a main entry index, and a list of recommended titles organized by subject areas. Following the pattern established by the AALS publication Law Books Recommended for Libraries, the letters “A”, “B”, and “C” have been assigned to indicate recommendations for various types and sizes of collections. The previous editors of Recommended Publications were Oscar J. Miller & Mortimer Schwartz (1970-2000) and Mary F. Miller (2001-2016). For related material, please see Hein Item #11739 for Advance Bibliography of Law and Related Fields (Green Slips); and Hein Item #11739 for Current Publications in Legal and Related Fields.

About the Compiler

Patricia Roncevich has been the Acquisitions/Serials Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law since 2003. As the co-head of Technical Services Department, she leads the Collection Development team and is responsible for collection maintenance. Since coming to Pitt she has overseen a complete review/weeding project of the periodical and treatise collections and worked as part of the team to establish an Arabic law collection. Prior coming to Pitt she was the Serials Librarian and a cataloger at the Clifford E. Barbour Library at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. She also served as the Head Librarian on the Semester at Sea program.

Pat has published and presented programs on issues dealing with ownership of electronic data. She is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries, the Western Pennsylvania Law Libraries Association (WPLLA) and NASIG. She has served on the AALL Technical Services Special Interest Section Executive Board as well as on the WPLLA board over the years.

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