Sentences with phrase «academic law library in»

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).

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 communitieIn 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 communitiein their local communities.

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.

She worked in law firm and academic libraries for over thirty years, in two countries, moving from the modern antipodes for the more traditional old world.

This applies in academic libraries, small law firms, barristers» chambers, smaller court systems, etc..

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.

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.

From a budget perspective, academic libraries generally and law libraries in particular have not had too onerous a time of maintaining their collections of monographs (though the time required to monitor the publishers» lists and select relevant titles can be onerous indeed).

Although I work in a private law library while the report deals with academic libraries, I found the report very interesting; a number of challenges that it identifies are also faced by private law libraries.

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

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.

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 collectiolaw 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 collectioLaw» [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 greatest impediment to the Osgoode library's goal of fully integrating itself into the academic and social fabric of the law school was physical: Though the library was large and spread over five floors in the law school building, the entrance to the library was poky and hidden in a remote corner of the basement level.

Earlier this month, the International Labour Organization and a group of academic partners that includes the Yale and Cornell law school libraries launched GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information), a program that will give users in more than 115 developing countries free access to a wide range of essential legal information.

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 schoolIn 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 schoolin 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 schoolin the rest of the university libraries do not have to contend with, unless they also work in professional schoolin professional schools.

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

Traditional library metrics are less helpful for law firm libraries compared to public or academic libraries; for example, circulation statistics are often used as an indicator of library usage and what parts of the library collection are in highest demand.

Updates address issues that are both emerging and long - standing, and the archives are a great library of information from some top academics and practitioners in this area of law.

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As noted in the American Association of Law Libraries Access to Justice White Paper, legal research instruction has always been core to academic librarianship.

While the drivers in academic and private law libraries might be different, all of us are dealing with the same basic problems.

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.

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.

Only in partnership with others — ideally not just among research institutions, but also among academic, private and courthouse libraries — can we develop the shared and sustainable expertise, methodologies, infrastructure and funding required to build and maintain a digital law library in Canada.

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]

Most of the digitization initiatives described by Lyonette in her article have been organized and are being funded by academic, research or national libraries, so it's perhaps not surprising that the emphasis has been on digitizing «books»; consequently, if any inherently legal materials are included in the collections, it's by chance, and they are secondary sources, not primary sources of law.

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.

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 20Law 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 20Law Libraries, Berring was named the author of the most influential work on the profession of law librarianship from 1957 to 20law librarianship from 1957 to 2006.

While the copies of early (pre-1930) law reports and statutes in both academic and private (law firm) libraries are disintegrating from age and overuse, mint - condition copies of them will be preserved in Osgoode's special collections.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But these projects — in both the academic and private law libraries — are small - scale, serving small audiences with specific needs.

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.

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.

Many of my academic colleagues (but certainly not colleagues in private law libraries) might find this policy drastic.

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.

The Edmonton Law Libraries Association also tries to bridge between academic style research and the type of research that is necessary in a firm.

Designed to be «high level» these Institutes were to attract faculty who were otherwise respected professionals in the law library community, leading scholars, academics, authors, think tank specialists, futurists, philosophers, jurists, lawyers and historians.

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..