The Legal Research is Easy blog post, Hone Those Research Skills, is California - based, but the lessons it teaches apply to law students in every state
where public law libraries are supported.
Not exact matches
Unlike in the US
where an author is only paid when a
library purchases a particular title for lending from its catalog, under the UK
law Public Lending Right, authors are compensated at each patron checkout, as well.
Unlike in the US
where an author is only paid when a
library purchases a particular title for lending from its catalog, under the UK
law Public Lending Right, authors are... [Read more...]
Our justice departments, attorneys general,
law societies and bar associations must not overlook the potential of courthouse
libraries as the space
where their access to justice initiatives connect with the
public, with the courthouse librarians acting as the trained ambassadors.
This is
where I come in, as a librarian at a government
law library that is open to the
public!
Plus, publicly accessible
law libraries have the professional obligation, and the subject knowledge, to pick up the slack
where official, especially government bodies, fail to make their documents easily accessible to the
public, which has a right of access.
John energetically embraces a plethora of creative solutions including hackathons, opening
law school clinics up to business and engineering schools and making the
law accessible to people
where they are, for example, through
public libraries.