Sentences with phrase «academic law libraries»

Taryn Marks — Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section (ALL - SIS), Continuing Status & Tenure Committee; Government Documents Special Interest Section (GD - SIS), Federal Depository Libraries Program (FDLP) Committee (Chair); LexisNexis Research Grant Jury

I hear from those in large law libraries that are somewhat open to the public, such as academic law libraries, that they get a number of pro se litigants — i.e. people who intend on representing themselves in court — trying to do legal research.

However, I suspect many academic law libraries might be subject to their central university web management policies, etc..

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.

Our SIGs, as we call them, are communities of practice whether that be a workplace type, like the Academic Law Libraries SIG or a broader topic like the Access Services and Resource Sharing SIG.

This is especially so in academic law libraries, where we are losing or have already lost our connection to the «technical» aspects of our profession and are unfamiliar with resources outside of law.

As our community of academic law libraries becomes smaller and more anemic, our university libraries may be able to provide us with a transfusion of new skills and influence within a wider information environment with greater collaborative potential, which we could use to further and promote legal information initiatives in our institutions and nationally.

For links to other Oregon state, county, and academic law libraries, link to the directory of Oregon county law libraries and to Oregon Law Libraries: Hours and Types of Service.

In a survey conducted by the Academic Law Libraries section of the American Association of Law Libraries, Berring was named the author of the most influential work on the profession of law librarianship from 1957 to 2006.

I am currently writing an article which basically looks at and updates a piece I published five years ago on the future of academic law libraries.

Almost all Canadian law libraries outside of the law schools have rejected this belief, but the academic law libraries hold fast.

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 libraries.

The group is comprised of four member libraries - two academic law libraries, the Georgetown Law and Harvard Law School Libraries, and the State Law Libraries of Maryland and Virginia - and is part of the Legal Information Archive.

TAGS: Legal informatics conferences; Law library conferences; Academic law libraries; Academic law libraries Faculty services; Legal scholarship; Legal scholarly communication; Legal research.

[Source: ALL - SIS Newsletter — Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries]

Nothing to see here folks... unless institutional law libraries (government ministries, courts, academic law libraries) are not supported.

Academic law libraries: gov. docs.

The discussion was mostly around digital preservation, in the course of this it became apparent that the biggest growing concern in academic law libraries is wholesale tossing of print book and journal collections in favour of databases such as the «Making of Modern Law» [http://www.galeuk.com/trials/moml/] in addition to the plan of Google and large research libraries (Harvard, Yale, Oxford, etc.) to digitize their entire collections.

The directors of the Canadian academic law libraries recently met with representatives of the national library to get them to purchase the silver halide fiche from the LLMC project so that the digital records are preserved in and for Canada.

This familiarity is further facilitated by the fact that almost all academic law libraries are physically situated within the law school.

CALL or CanLII or one of the academic law libraries could host the work (or a new site could be set up).

Academic law libraries, too, are different from other libraries in the university.

As many academic law libraries are open to the public and are a filler of the Access to Justice, it's important that the library has resources available to them.

The fist of the academic law libraries to abandon KF Modified was the University of Toronto's Bora Laskin Law Library.

But most of these were smaller libraries in law firms and courthouses: most Canadian academic law libraries never did adopt KF Modified, and some of those who did have recently given it up, reverting to unmodified Library of Congress Classification, using KE for their Canadian law holdings.

A blog about all things academic law libraries and legal research.

Would there be an academic law library willing to host the Table of Contents?

This reality has required me seriously to consider the function of an academic law library in the digital age.

The concept of the online course, now fighting its way to legitimacy, may be the last straw to the centrality of the academic law library in the United States.

Ideally, one of our colleagues in an academic law library in Canada would take ownership... [more]

Outside of the academic law library world a couple of noteworthy bibliographies include the Suggested Textbooks section of Catherine Best's Guide to Canadian Legal Research and the Legaltree.ca website's Resources by Subject Area

Most academic law library and law society websites include some research guides or bibliographies — here are some of the ones I use the most:

The Harvard law library is the largest academic law library in the world.

In general, and speaking for what I think is the academic law library community in Canada, this idea is probably not an immediate priority.

So, the title is likely referring to the management of a Library, Research, or Information Services, or KM operations, within the context of a law firm or academic law library setting.

This all - encompassing regard for the client and the distinct workplace aura it creates are noticeably different from the public library and academic law library environments.

One of my colleagues among the Canadian academic law library directors recently conducted a survey of our libraries to discover who continues to subscribe to The Canadian Abridgment in print and why.

Working in a an academic law library that is open to the public I've found that it is often on Friday, and more specifically, Friday afternoon that the individual who wants to challenge the constitutional validity of income tax arrives at the library looking... [more]

I use these as examples because its very unlikely that any academic law library in Canada has given any thought to canceling the print and probably most would recoil at the suggestion.

Working in a an academic law library that is open to the public I've found that it is often on Friday, and more specifically, Friday afternoon that the individual who wants to challenge the constitutional validity of income tax arrives at the library looking for an orientation to our legal system and advice on the best way to prove that income tax is illegal, or substitute whichever conspiracy theory you like in here.

Ideally, one of our colleagues in an academic law library in Canada would take ownership of this type of customized search engine since Google search engines customized by Universities are eligible for «ad - free» sites (the foregoing link includes Google ads as part of the search results, something which I would prefer to do without).

Does anyone think this resource would be useful in an academic law library?

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

Not exact matches

These academic programs enable students to complement their theological and biblical studies with secular skills in public management and policy, law, music, social work, business administration, information and library science or health - care administration.

Like many academic libraries all over the world, Harvard's law library was «good at getting people their books when they came through our door,» he said, «but not as good when they came through our virtual door.»

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

In 1983, the Library Network Law was enacted establishing the New Jersey Library Network as a mechanism for academic, institutional, public, school and special libraries to cooperatively provide New Jersey residents with full and equal access to library materials, programs and information that might not otherwise be available in their local communities.

Below is the letter from Annette Demers on behalf of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL / ACBD) and John Papadopoulos and Jeanne Maddix on behalf of the Canadian Council of Academic Law Library Directors which was also endorsed by Robert Thomas on behalf of the Saskatchewan Library Association.

One would think that West would have the technology in place to detect suspected password sharing and Hodnicki's point, echoed by Betsy McKenzie, director of the Suffolk University Law School Library, is that library and academic users are a key «market» for this kind of technology.

So the onus comes back to major academic libraries (and national law libraries where they exist) to take up the responsibility to purchase paper versions of key resources for as long as they are able to afford it.