Sentences with phrase «many academic law»

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.

The academic law department would be located in a separate building from the law school, closer to the other social science departments of the university.

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

The academic law department would be very different from the professional school.

Throughout the entirety of my career as an Academic Law Librarian and Legal Research Professor, my colleagues and I debated with the question of whether or not we should be (1) tenure track and, if so, (2) considered part of the law school faculty and invited to participate in the governance of the school.

Academic law librarians are increasingly involved with the development and management of institutional repositories, with research intensification and scholarly communications.

Academic law librarians have to be grounded in legal theory and have a grasp of international issues, but they are far removed from practice; and if they misdirect, nobody is going to jail.

In mid-May, the Council of Canadian Academic Law Library Directors adopted the Calgary Statement on Free Access to Legal Information.

Sarah is a former academic law librarian and legal research professor.

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

Black - Branch, who was a teacher before beginning his academic law career, is currently a professor and chair in international law, as well as associate dean of education at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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.

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

From the perspective of an academic law librarian, and after having heard from and spoken to law librarians from many sectors last month at CALL, I'd say you've pointedly and accurately summed up our concerns about looseleaf titles generally and, specifically, about their supplementation.

This discussion is an important reminder that students must be prepared to expect a very different level of online database access once they leave law school, and academic law librarians and legal research educators must teach to that end.

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 concept of real tenure for academic law librarians becomes a shining artifact of the past.

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

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

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.

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

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

It has been a tough year for academic law librarianship in the United States.

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.

It is helpful for law firm librarians and academic law librarians to talk about student training, whether in a formal setting such as a conference or something more informal.

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 conference was attended almost exclusively by law firm librarians, with a sprinkling of academic law librarians and vendors sprinkled in.

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:

In my own patch, academic law librarians are losing ground in terms of status, pay and control.

We could continue to offer purely academic law degrees, acknowledging their worth in the imparting of a certain kind of learning, but insist that anyone who actually wants to practise law undergo an apprenticeship, getting the bulk of his or her education from an experienced professional — or ideally, professionals, moving around during the apprenticeship period through a minimum of three practice areas, much like a medical resident would.

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

Academic law libraries: gov. docs.

In law, the interesting action seems to be with further retrenchment by CCH, this time in academic law publishing in Australia, the likes of venture capitalist - held ALM and the strategic directions that they are taking and, of course, with Bloomberg.

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

If a law school curriculum already has such a requirement, this is a ripe opportunity for academic law librarians to seize.

Textbooks: Many academic law textbooks will be relevant, so you can try to grab a recent year's syllabus online (Google arbitration syllabus [insert law school here]-RRB- and use that as a reference to start with.

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

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has just released a report on Academic Law Library Statistics 2007 - 2008.

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

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.

They include the academic law departments who really should be taking up the challenge of integrating technology into their courses.

She has also worked as an academic law librarian, a professor, a Director of Content Management...

Gary J. Bravy & K. Celeste Feather, The Impact of Electronic Access on Basic Library Services: One Academic Law Library's Experience, 93 LAW LIBR.

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

One role for academic law librarians in promoting access to justice is to provide training to p...

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.

That needs to be done with a mind open enough to believe that there are lawyers called to the Bar in Ontario prior to the 1950s who were just as admirable as those who attend academic law schools, so that «admirable» becomes a term accessible to a variety of forms of legal education.