But O'Grady also takes close looks at new legal research platforms, interviews legal publishing leaders, and explores the evolving
role of law librarians as the profession absorbs new technology and law firms rethink how they serve clients.
In the evolution of library from place to service,
the role of law librarian is shifting to problem solver, consultant, and expert researcher.
Learn more about
the role of law librarians in a variety of work environments.
It will be interesting to see how this will change
the role of law librarian in the firms, and how the firm cultures will gradually be transformed.
Not exact matches
The goal
of this pro-bono state - level support project is to ensure that each state's ESSA Implementation Plan has school library stakeholders at the table during development, a robust professional engagement during public comment to support the stakeholder objectives, and that every avenue to expand the
role and stature
of school
librarians in each state is, as authorized under federal
law, explored.
At the Private
Law Libraries Summit during this summer's AALL meeting in San Antonio, Susan Hackett, CEO of Legal Executive Leadership, gave a great keynote on re-engineering the role of the private law librari
Law Libraries Summit during this summer's AALL meeting in San Antonio, Susan Hackett, CEO
of Legal Executive Leadership, gave a great keynote on re-engineering the
role of the private
law librari
law librarian.
Law firm
librarians may no longer maintain print collections, but they have compensated by expanding their
roles into new areas
of information management such as knowledge management, business information, competitive analysis and marketing support.
The full report — The Strategic New
Roles Of Marketing And The Library In Big
Law — suggests that competitive intelligence is a convergence point between law librarians and law firm marketi
Law — suggests that competitive intelligence is a convergence point between
law librarians and law firm marketi
law librarians and
law firm marketi
law firm marketing.
I hope Ryerson will seriously consider the nature and
role of a
law library — and
law librarians — in this brave new legal world.
Although the foregoing article is a shortened version
of my longer paper from last year entitled «Project Management in
Law Firms: A New
Role for
Librarians?»
I had the pleasure last week
of presenting at the annual meeting
of the Canadian Association
of Law Libraries / / L'Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit on the topic «Legal Project Management: Is There a
Role for
Law Librarians?»
If the
law librarian moves into a strategic
role within a firm, and has oversight for standards on data governance, develops strong working knowledge
of information and document workflows with a firm, the person offers faster capacity to pinpoint breadcrumb trail
of document workflows for e-discovery situations as well as executing the usual, ie.
She noted a change over the last conference she had attended over a decade earlier, that
law librarians are taking more
of a leader
role.
In particular, I identify practice groups as a type
of community
of practice and add this as an area in which
law librarians can play a
role.
Members
of a working group
of BIALL, representing British and Irish
law librarians, were interviewed by the reviewers, and along with two colleagues, I was given the opportunity to explain the
role that the recently formulated Legal Information Literacy Standards could play in legal curriculum planning for the future.
Law librarians, law practitioners, and others interested in thoughts on the future of law practice will be interested in a provocative new piece by Jordan Furlong: The Future is Now: Eight Emerging Roles for Law Libraria
Law librarians, law practitioners, and others interested in thoughts on the future of law practice will be interested in a provocative new piece by Jordan Furlong: The Future is Now: Eight Emerging Roles for Law L
librarians,
law practitioners, and others interested in thoughts on the future of law practice will be interested in a provocative new piece by Jordan Furlong: The Future is Now: Eight Emerging Roles for Law Libraria
law practitioners, and others interested in thoughts on the future
of law practice will be interested in a provocative new piece by Jordan Furlong: The Future is Now: Eight Emerging Roles for Law Libraria
law practice will be interested in a provocative new piece by Jordan Furlong: The Future is Now: Eight Emerging
Roles for
Law Libraria
Law LibrariansLibrarians.
Although in my paper I also provided a brief overview
of legal project management and what various
law firms were doing about it, the focus
of my talk was instead on the third part
of my paper on whether there was a
role for
law librarians in project management (this being a conference whose attendees were largely
law librarians).
Of the 8
roles identified, this is perhaps the most obvious
role (or at least the one most closely associated with what
law librarians do).
A copy
of my paper, entitled «Project Management in
Law Firms: A New
Role for
Librarians?»
Therefore, to the extent that there are overlaps between legal knowledge management and legal project management, there are, I think, a number
of roles for
law librarians to play.
I wonder how the
law firm
librarian role as «trusted adviser» will adapt to the type
of change outsourced services would bring to an organization.
J. 575, 578 (2011)(suggesting that «
law librarians with recent practice experience» can «draw on their experience in a contemporary legal research practice setting to enhance their instruction»)(citing Nolan L. Wright, Standing at the Gates: A New Law Librarian Wonders About the Future Role of the Profession in Legal Research Education, 27 Legal Reference Services Q. 305, 332 — 33 (2008)-RR
law librarians with recent practice experience» can «draw on their experience in a contemporary legal research practice setting to enhance their instruction»)(citing Nolan L. Wright, Standing at the Gates: A New
Law Librarian Wonders About the Future Role of the Profession in Legal Research Education, 27 Legal Reference Services Q. 305, 332 — 33 (2008)-RR
Law Librarian Wonders About the Future
Role of the Profession in Legal Research Education, 27 Legal Reference Services Q. 305, 332 — 33 (2008)-RRB-.
A Word About
Law Librarians I asked McKinstry to comment on the role and contributions of l
Librarians I asked McKinstry to comment on the
role and contributions
of librarianslibrarians.
Though the practice is counter-intuitive, competent and cost - effective
librarians are being squeezed out
of law firms, their
roles filled by «KM lawyers» at one end or technicians at the other.
Frey offers his own views on the future
of the
law library emphasizing function over form and concluding that «
law librarians have continually added
roles to their repertoire — we find, create, organize, use, and show how to use legal and non-
law resources, and we implement and troubleshoot technology too!»
How fortunate
law firm
librarians are to have this opportunity to enhance the crucial nature
of their own teaching
role within a firm!