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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
This familiarity is further facilitated
by the fact that almost all
academic law libraries are physically situated within the
law school.
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 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.
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).