Law librarianship refers to the profession of managing and providing access to legal information in a library setting. Law librarians help users find and understand legal resources such as books, journals, and online databases to assist in legal research and the practice of law. They play a crucial role in supporting lawyers, judges, students, and the public in navigating the vast world of legal information.
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In 2006, the American Association of Law Libraries named Professor Berring's writing the most influential work on the profession
of law librarianship of the past 50 years.
I am a bit surprised that no one has posted the news on Slaw that Ted Tjaden received the Denis Marshall Memorial Award for Excellence
in Law Librarianship at the Canadian Law Libraries Association annual meeting on Monday.
The Canadian Association of Law Libraries List (CALL - L) is an e-mail discussion list fostering an interest in and discussion
on law librarianship in Canada.
The winner will be announced at the 28th Annual Course in
International Law Librarianship in Istanbul (Turkey), 11th — 15th October, 2009, and will be able to display the coveted.
I see excellence in
law librarianship at every turn: the panelists at our ACLEA conference, the always - interesting law librarian blog, and through my close connections with the Vancouver law librarian community.
He was also a professor in the University's graduate School of Information where he built the legal information /
law librarianship program.
This is an intensive, week - long program aimed at developing skills in the key competencies of
law librarianship developed and presented by the Canadian Association of Law Libraries.
For example, the Technical Services Special Interest Section (TS - SIS) has the Renee D. Chapman Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Technical
Services Law Librarianship.
Those people who know me well will know that I strongly believe in the connection
between law librarianship and legal knowledge management (and I in fact don't distinguish between the two activities since I think they are so closely entwined).
Jim is very interested in teaching those of us in the legal research /
law librarianship community, so I expect he is not just doing this for his students but also for the larger community.
A combination of factors prompted the development of this certificate, including changing trends in the job market, rising demands for management education and training for information professionals, and recommendations resulting from consultation with the
DLIS Law Librarianship Council and Advisory Board in 2015.
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.
The purpose of this paper is to review
where law librarianship finds itself six years into the new millennium, and what common challenges the profession faces in this new century.
Since the history
of law librarianship in CanadaI acknowledge the start made in the Diana Priestly festschrift, Law libraries in Canada: essays to honour Diana M. Priestly, edited by Joan N. Fraser and published by Carswell in 1988, and the recent CALL publication on Law Reporting and Legal Publishing in Canada: A History, but that's not really on topic.
In my area of specialty, foreign, comparative, and
international law librarianship, we've been fortunate to have a great mentor of new FCIL librarians, Dan Wade at Yale.
We are very pleased to have Penny Hazelton, Associate Dean for Library and Computing Services, Professor of Law, Director of the University of Washington's
Law Librarianship Program and Ernie Ingles, Vice-Provost and Chief Librarian, University of Alberta, author of the 8Rs Study, and founder of the Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute, as our facilitators for this one day event.
The conference is an exciting opportunity to explore and learn about emerging issues
in law librarianship, to acquire the tools for building both hard and soft skills, and to meet with vendors about their new products and the improvements of existing ones.
Ted Tjaden, a long - time member of CALL / ACBD and the 2010 recipient of the Denis Marshall Memorial Award for Excellence in
Law Librarianship, is the national litigation precedents lawyer in Gowlings» Toronto office.
The shrinking of options in the legal publishing world has been a pretty constant theme in my years in
law librarianship.
The extended economic downturn has had wide - ranging effects on law libraries and the practice of
law librarianship.
I would also suggest that legal research and
law librarianship are areas where introverts shine.
Now it looks like my profession of
law librarianship may be disappearing as well.
At least, that's my 15 year experience in
law librarianship, relations with publishers and not - for - profit organisations.
What if CALL or SLA or some other organization would establish some education and experience minimums and equivalencies that would get you a «certificate» in
law librarianship.
I hope all of us can recognize the significance of this award for the changes it presages in
law librarianship, law publishing and legal information.
The second was an overheated rebuttal of a piece on the nature of
Law Librarianship that the eminent Professor G. Edward White had written in the Green Bag a few years back.
This is a serious blow to academic
law librarianship in the United States.
It has been a tough year for academic
law librarianship in the United States.
Associations are asking us to nominate our colleagues for excellence in writing, marketing, service, leadership, and
law librarianship in general.
An example of another type of recognition is the Canadian Association of Law Libraries / Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit Denis Marshall Memorial Award for Excellence in
Law Librarianship.
2016 began with a strange drama in the world of
law librarianship in the United States.
It helps, of course, that the law library is committed to serving the information needs of one of the smallest and most tightly - knit faculties in the university, permitting the librarians a level of familiarity with their clients that is one of the special attractions of
law librarianship.
These traditional library skills are not generally available or even promoted in academic law libraries, at least in Canada, where the «technical» aspects of
law librarianship have generally been outsourced to central libraries and the focus is almost exclusively on legal research and reference.
Ann is a veritable legend in the field of
law librarianship, with a list of achievements that I could not do justice to with a Blog post.
He significantly contributed to
the law librarianship over a quite long career.
His contributions to the application of technology to law, and the professionalization of
law librarianship would fill a monograph let alone a blog.
Nearly 15 years ago, Judy Meadows, Library Director at the State Law Library of Montana, wrote in
Law Librarianship: a Handbook for the Electronic Age that «[T] he key to success in the future is to stop thinking about library needs and start thinking about user needs.»
Of course, there is her encyclopedic knowledge of
law librarianship, vendors, resources and all of her contributions to the profession.
Despite their proximity,
law librarianship and legal publishing are very different disciplines.
Now, she has found to way to combine
her law librarianship with her brewmanship in the form of a weekly column, Brewing With Stina, that will appear on Fridays on Law Librarian Blog.