Budget cut means likely closure of Vermont’s state law library

A Vermont journalism website reports that cuts to the Vermont Department of Libraries will likely result in the closure of the state law library. The State Librarian says that The law library is “going to disappear.” If it is closed, Vermont would be one of the few in the country without a state law library.

• Budget cut means likely closure of state law library by Elizabeth Hewitt, VTDigger (Mar. 20 2015)

• State cuts could cause libraries to lose federal funding by Erin Mansfield, VTDigger (Mar. 30 2015).

Currently, the bulk of the expenditures of the Law Library pay only for a single librarian and access to Westlaw. Defender General Matt Valerio is quoted as saying, “As a practical matter, in this day and age you can get done what you need to get done without going to the law library,”

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