Academic librarians are being asked to ensure provision of a percentage of their collection in electronic formats. This requirement is heavily based on a perceived need to work smarter and more efficiently to support virtualisation for anywhere, anytime access. This has led to a budget shift towards virtualisation and digital collections. A critical question is whether this shift is acceptable to users of academic law libraries. The presenter will focus on: • Whether the needs of law students and faculty are enhancing or inhibiting this mandate for collection development managers to increase e-resource content provision, in an increasingly global electronic information environment. • The nature of Caribbean students and faculty’s changing expectations for e-resources access provision, • The challenges faced by on campus, off campus and mobile users, and • Recommendations for academic law libraries, with lean budgets, when considering collection development shift to e-resources.
