The fact that law is the best-documented of the professions is at once a blessing and a curse to Darcy Kirk, associate dean for library and technology and professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law.

Her job is to acquire and manage exploding quantities of material from a decreasing field of legal publishers, often at less competitive prices. Fortunately she comes armed not only with a J.D. and a Master’s in library science, but also an M.B.A.