I have never had the opportunity to practice my craft in a law school library having only
worked as a law librarian in private firms.
Although a few of the attendees had specific experience with knowledge management, many had not, and my hope was that I was able to convince them that they all had opportunities to augment their skills by bring knowledge management principles into their daily
work as law librarians.
To
work as a law librarian with either a government agency or a non-profit organization where I can utilize my skills and knowledge to provide information on a wide range of legal terminologies and cases
To
work as a law librarian where I can organize materials according to their topics and relevance in the library database and present the information whenever I am asked to
Not exact matches
I don't intend to discuss these cases in this column, here I will write about the development of the deep research skills needed by professional researchers such
as lawyers and
law librarians to provide the enhanced expertise needed to be paid professionally for this
work.
But
as a former
law librarian, who
worked for provincial Ontario govn't organization, the Ontario courts and also a major global accounting firm, my thoughts on a commenter's excerpted remark:
The challenge for
law society
Librarians is budgetary — we do have our budgets from the Members» fees and
as such our collections must support their
work, there isn't the money to have a general public collection of materials that those not trained in the
law can use and databases comes with licenses that prevent us from allowing the public to use them.
Prior to
working as a Litigation Support Manager and
as a Adjunct Professor of eDiscovery and Litigation Support, I
worked in the legal arena
as a Legal Records Clerk, a
Law Librarian, a File Clerk, a Litigation Paralegal -LSB-...]
Prior to joining the University of Toronto John
worked at a number of Toronto
law firms
as a reference
librarian... [more]
Tim is Associate
Librarian and Head of Technical Services at the impressive Osgoode Hall Law School Library and has worked as a librarian at the Great Library and at the Ontario Institute for Studies in E
Librarian and Head of Technical Services at the impressive Osgoode Hall
Law School Library and has
worked as a
librarian at the Great Library and at the Ontario Institute for Studies in E
librarian at the Great Library and at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
«
As more young
law librarians enter the field and more Google generation patrons enter the practice of
law will Twittering for
work - related communications increase?»
So, AALL, stay
as you are and keep up the good
work as the centre of gravity for
law librarians (even those of us in Canada, and elsewhere outside the US).
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.
With associate positions hard to come by, new graduates — desperate to find a paying job in the legal profession — are applying for
work as paralegals, legal secretaries and
law librarians, according to Long Island Business News.
This would be problematic especially
as my
work as a foreign and international
law librarian involves locating resources beyond my local physical boundaries.
Cecilia previously
worked as a Liaison
Librarian at McGill's Nahum Gelber
Law Library.
As a legal research educator and a librarian who has worked with law students and attorneys as well as judges, I can tell you that there are users who won't know a product like ALR is gone from an online service until they really need i
As a legal research educator and a
librarian who has
worked with
law students and attorneys
as well as judges, I can tell you that there are users who won't know a product like ALR is gone from an online service until they really need i
as well
as judges, I can tell you that there are users who won't know a product like ALR is gone from an online service until they really need i
as judges, I can tell you that there are users who won't know a product like ALR is gone from an online service until they really need it.
Ann was extremely influential in being a positive influence in my development
as a
law librarian, having had the opportunity to
work for her while a student in the Master program at U of Toronto and then subsequently being given the opportunity to replace her when she left for Dal.
In defence of LRW instruction in
law schools, at least from the point of view of
law librarians, I should point out that we
work at universities, and
as such we have to make sure our students know how to do academic research and writing,
as well
as how to do practical legal research and writing — something colleagues in the rest of the university libraries do not have to contend with, unless they also
work in professional schools.
Yet they did not feel the need for radical change to their teaching and learning practices; they relied on academic
librarians to impart these skills.2 They felt this was justified on the grounds that,
as one
law professor stated, students had limited time available, had difficulty
working independently, and would perhaps «get more confused and... just throw a lot of stuff in?
I see a social obligation both in my chosen profession
as a
librarian and in my
work on the fringes of the
law.
He uses his background
as a
law librarian and CLE consultant to
work with
law firms to explore how they use and improve efficiency and management techniques in the day - to - day practice of
law.
She has also
worked as an academic
law librarian, a professor, a Director of Content Management...
However,
librarians employed in fast - paced environments such
as law firms may
work long hours.
As a
law librarian having
worked in the largest
law firms, a parallel issue being discussed is that the library has to promote itself more.
Connie is a
law librarian who now
works as a consultant specializing in Knowledge Management, Information Management and Social Media for the legal industry.
SLA awards were handed out last night, and I am delighted to report
law librarian Sabrina Pacifici was honoured with the J.J. Kellar Innovations in Technology Award for her long - standing
work as creator, founder and sole editor of
law and technology blog beSpacific and e-zine LLRX.com.
Connie wins for her «leverage of
law librarians» — both for the triple alliteration and the truth that none of us, practitioners or academics, would be able to
work as we do without the leverage provided by the
law librarians.
I'm not sure publishers still «get» the way
law firms
work now
as PSLs, transactional lawyers, litigators, etc differ significantly; and non bear any real relation to the
librarian.
I entered the profession in the dog days of this
law library Eden, but not so late that I wasn't trained to believe that all of us —
librarians and publishers —
worked best when we
worked together; and that we,
as law librarians, had a professional responsibility not only to our institutions but to society, too.
They might be unknown to many of my younger colleagues, so I'll take the liberty of naming a few (without details of their distinguished careers): McGill's Marianne Scott had just recently been appointed National
Librarian of Canada; Diana Priestly was just finishing her tenure
as founding
Law Librarian at the University of Victoria; Balfour Halévy, Osgoode's founding Chief Law Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so full of spritely humour) was in full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada) as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the law firm library at Osl
Law Librarian at the University of Victoria; Balfour Halévy, Osgoode's founding Chief
Law Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so full of spritely humour) was in full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada) as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the law firm library at Osl
Law Librarian, was still in charge at Osgoode and leading the charge nationally; Tom Shorthouse was centre - stage at the University of British Columbia (and wherever there was a piano); Edmonton was doubly - blessed with Lillian MacPherson (passionate about both women's studies and Iceland) at the University of Alberta and Shi - Sheng Hu (reluctant to discard superseded loose - leaf supplements) at the courthouse; the dynamic duo of Denis Marshall (at Queen's University, always so kind and supportive) and Denis Le May (at Laval, always so full of spritely humour) was in full swing; Ann Crocker was hard at
work at the University of New Brunswick (though she hadn't yet been awarded the Order of Canada)
as was Guy Tanguay at Sherbrooke; while Vicki Whitmell was re-inventing the
law firm library at Osl
law firm library at Osler.
As has
worked in the past, when the neutral citation system for Canadian courts was created and adopted, and equally a uniform naming convention for Canadian judgments, I would suggest the
work be entrusted to a core
working group supported by an advisory board representative of all the affected communities: the Courts (and the Canadian Judicial Council), the
law publishers both print and digital (especially CanLII and Lexum), legal writing and research faculty,
law librarians and practising lawyers from both our French and English legal communities.
As a result
law schools like ours included a compulsory pass / fail subject at first year to cover this, and employs a teacher to
work with the
librarians.
As law librarian at City University of London, where I
worked for 14 years before changing to legal academia, I created a website for
law students called Lawbore.
In his
work as a
law school
librarian, he has noticed a tendency in his users to shun legitimate secondary sources in favour of the results of keyword searching.
René Winter
works as Liaison
Librarian Law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
However,
librarians employed in fast - paced environments such
as law firms may
work long hours.
Law librarians can
work for legal firms, government agencies or private companies and they must have technical expertise to locate the right document
as soon
as possible.
Librarian may
work in variety of settings such
as schools, colleges, museums,
law firms, government agencies or even ngo's.
Librarians working in a special library, such
as a
law, medical, or corporate library, usually supplement a master's degree in library science with knowledge of their specialized field.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, other
work - related experiences might include managing a local public library, serving
as a technical service
librarian,
working as a media specialist at a high school or serving
as an information professional at a
law firm, hospital, museum or government agency.