In a digital age, the public deserves a free,
digital public law library.
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 re
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 re
digital and data privacy concerns to better serve the patrons who access their
library's technological resources
As revealed by research done by IFLA's
Law Libraries Section, there are a variety of inconsistent practices currently carried out by different government agencies that «pose a risk to sustainable access to
public legal information in the
digital age.»
And I wonder if, just as
law firm and
law school
libraries provide access to
digital legal resources for our in - house users, we must ensure sufficient
digital access is available to the
public we have always insisted we serve.
In this
digital information age, I don't think our «
public»
law libraries (
law school and
law society
libraries) are the first place a citizen would think to go to access legal information; and I wonder if our
libraries» maintenance of expensive print subscription services — like published
law reporters and
law digest services — is justified when these print resources are no longer used by our own «expert» users (students, faculty and practising lawyers), are incomprehensible and effectively inaccessible to the non-expert
public, unaffordable, and increasingly unmanageable.