Yesterday, we posted an item about six law libraries closing in Connecticut.

Today, via this article from the Newark Star-Ledger. we read about two courthouse law libraries closing in New Jersey.

Law libraries in Superior Courts in Morristown in Morris County and Newton in Sussex County are expected to be closed in about six months, said Morris-Sussex courts administrator Michael Arnold. The main reason is that the advent of the Internet has been supplanting law libraries, he said.

“Use of the libraries has diminished over the years because people can get a lot of what they need online,” Arnold said.

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Norman Maranz, an attorney based in Whippany who has been practicing law for 45 years, still uses law libraries when he happens to be in courthouses and needs to do some research. Maranz recalled the heyday of law libraries as having generally been bustling spots in courthouses, where attorneys would often gather to do research or to wait for their cases to be called.

“They’re not as crowded as they used to be. With computers now, everything is online,” Maranz said as he did research in a narrow aisle of the law library in Superior Court in Morristown.

Much More in the Complete Article

Source: Newark Star-Ledger/NJ.com

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