Sentences with phrase «academic law librarians»

See also the BIALL email forum (described above) and BI-ALLG, for academic law librarians in the UK.

One role for academic law librarians in promoting access to justice is to provide training to p...

If a law school curriculum already has such a requirement, this is a ripe opportunity for academic law librarians to seize.

In my own patch, academic law librarians are losing ground in terms of status, pay and control.

The conference was attended almost exclusively by law firm librarians, with a sprinkling of academic law librarians and vendors sprinkled in.

It is helpful for law firm librarians and academic law librarians to talk about student training, whether in a formal setting such as a conference or something more informal.

The concept of real tenure for academic law librarians becomes a shining artifact of the past.

This discussion is an important reminder that students must be prepared to expect a very different level of online database access once they leave law school, and academic law librarians and legal research educators must teach to that end.

Academic law librarians have to be grounded in legal theory and have a grasp of international issues, but they are far removed from practice; and if they misdirect, nobody is going to jail.

Academic law librarians are increasingly involved with the development and management of institutional repositories, with research intensification and scholarly communications.

Throughout the entirety of my career as an Academic Law Librarian and Legal Research Professor, my colleagues and I debated with the question of whether or not we should be (1) tenure track and, if so, (2) considered part of the law school faculty and invited to participate in the governance of the school.

Sarah is a former academic law librarian and legal research professor.

From the perspective of an academic law librarian, and after having heard from and spoken to law librarians from many sectors last month at CALL, I'd say you've pointedly and accurately summed up our concerns about looseleaf titles generally and, specifically, about their supplementation.

She has also worked as an academic law librarian, a professor, a Director of Content Management...

Hi Steve — of course accuracy and currency are important, and I don't know of any academic law librarian who does not try to impart this in the training the give in law school legal research sessions.

Not exact matches

This session will bring together a privacy law professor who is thinking about a world without intellectual privacy, an academic librarian who worked with an ALA committee to create Library Privacy Guidelines for E-book Lending and Digital Content Vendors, and a public librarian working on a grant - funded project to help library professionals increase their knowledge of digital and data privacy concerns to better serve the patrons who access their library's technological resources

What are seen as core academic tools (certain books and journals and law reports) by librarians, are mere assets to publishing houses and are often traded as such.

There are lots of very smart legal professionals out there in the world — practitioners, academics, librarians and even law students.

It is a medium in which leading lawyers, academics, technologists, law librarians, consultants, vendors and other legal professionals are regularly contributing their insights and knowledge.

«Across American law schools, you can hear the loud sucking sound of academic productivity being flushed down the drain today,» writes Joe Hodnicki at Law Librarian Bllaw schools, you can hear the loud sucking sound of academic productivity being flushed down the drain today,» writes Joe Hodnicki at Law Librarian BlLaw Librarian Blog.

About 120 prominent law librarians from around the world — primarily from academic, legislative and court house libraries — have arrived in Toronto and are enjoying the first day of programming.

We hope that our audience will include practicing lawyers, legal librarians, legal academics and students — anyone, in short, who uses IT in researching the law.

In defence of LRW instruction in law schools, at least from the point of view of law librarians, I should point out that we work at universities, and as such we have to make sure our students know how to do academic research and writing, as well as how to do practical legal research and writing — something colleagues in the rest of the university libraries do not have to contend with, unless they also work in professional schools.

Yet they did not feel the need for radical change to their teaching and learning practices; they relied on academic librarians to impart these skills.2 They felt this was justified on the grounds that, as one law professor stated, students had limited time available, had difficulty working independently, and would perhaps «get more confused and... just throw a lot of stuff in?

It was a noteworthy event, held in Middle Temple Hall and guests included many High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court judges, as well as leading barristers, academics, law librarians and other legal practitioners.

Law firm librarians should collaborate with local (or virtual) academic librarians to form cooperative alliances;

``... some proactive academic librarians are already involved in improving law student technology skills for entry into the practice of law.

These effective academics have demonstrated to their curriculum committees that the law librarians are well - suited to teach these skills to law students.»

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Connie wins for her «leverage of law librarians» — both for the triple alliteration and the truth that none of us, practitioners or academics, would be able to work as we do without the leverage provided by the law librarians.

In Friday's Law Librarian Conversations podcast (formerly the Law Librarian podcast) we talked about the up - take of this week by academic law libraries, especially considering that the focus tends to be on public librariLaw Librarian Conversations podcast (formerly the Law Librarian podcast) we talked about the up - take of this week by academic law libraries, especially considering that the focus tends to be on public librariLaw Librarian podcast) we talked about the up - take of this week by academic law libraries, especially considering that the focus tends to be on public librarilaw libraries, especially considering that the focus tends to be on public libraries.

The case law seems to suggest that, rather than deciding public access policies based solely on considerations of the public or private nature of their universities, the amount of public funding received, or their library's depository status, librarians can consider the individual characteristics of their own universities — the university's mission, their patrons» needs, their financial circumstances, and the place they see for their academic library in the larger community.

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Linna co-founded both the Detroit and Chicago Legal Innovation and Technology meet - up groups that have attracted lawyers, technologists, academics, law librarians, legal - services vendors, and others.

I think it would be especially useful for academic librarians to have insight into the way in which lawyers use firm libraries, and the kind of information they seek — useful in that we would be better able to equip our students (who will be those lawyers) while in law school.

As suggested in this article, a law degree is by no means necessary for law librarians except for senior academic (and perhaps courthouse) appointments but that a law degree does provide useful context and a competitive advantage in some circumstances.

I have described how financial realities have reduced our academic law libraries from comprehensive library environments to a rump body of librarians (or a single librarian) in a law school doing library reference duties and obsessing about teaching legal research.

There must be more to academic law librarianship than teaching legal research; if not, I've spent 35 years wasting my time as a law librarian.

Now, as a public services librarian in an academic law library, I do little targeted legal research.

Indeed, law libraries and librarians do not serve only legal academics and students, but the bar.

The article titled «Key to the Kingdom» quotes well respected academic librarians from law schools across the country about law student orientation week.

For example, a law librarian may be required to have a law degree or a librarian in an academic library may need a Ph.D..