Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0270319x.2023.2222558
Michelle M. Wu
This article will look at the recent Hachette decision against the Internet Archive, analyzing how the court’s reliance on past authorities with insufficient context distorted their meanings. It will focus only on the controlled digital lending (CDL) aspect, not discussing the other claims in the suit or exploring the specific implementation of CDL by the Internet Archive (IA). Since CDL programs can vary widely, IA is better situated than others to identify missing context related to the analysis of the unique components of their efforts. And other libraries engaging in CDL should be able to easily see where their programs differ from the judge’s description of IA’s. For that reason, the analysis below only delves into the language that might be used to chill all CDL programs or innovation more generally.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0270319X.2023.2196160
N. Norton
Abstract Law schools throughout the United States are considering strategies to embed the concepts of antiracism,diversity, equity, and inclusion into legal education. How does the work of their law libraries intersect with this effort? One potential point of intersection is through law library collection develpment. This article offers an overview of strategies to both curate and bolster representation of diverse voices in an academic law library collection using the theories of critical legal information literacy and epistemic injustice.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0270319x.2023.2161289
M. Cheney, H. Simmons
Abstract This article argues that print still has a place in legal research pedagogy and that some materials should still be collected in print in addition to online should the budget allow for it due to five primary reasons: (1) stability of legal information; (2) context; (3) information literacy; (4) algorithm bias; and (5) the discovery of information. Since many law library budgets are shrinking, there are creative ways for online legal publishers to make online material more print-like should libraries be unable to purchase both print and online material.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0270319x.2023.2196157
H. Tian, Duncan E. Alford
Abstract As the library of the sole law school in the world that offers a dual degree in American common law (Juris Doctor) and a Chinese law degree (Juris Master), the Peking University School of Transnational Law Library shoulders the burden of knowledge transfer between East and West. This article provides a detailed and comprehensive introduction to the STL Law Library located on the Shenzhen campus of Peking University.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-29DOI: 10.1080/0270319x.2023.2161290
Katharine Hanson
Abstract As researchers dealing with a high volume of requests daily, it can be tempting to value speed and efficiency over all else. However, it is vital that we learn the skill of slowing down and allowing new solutions and answers to emerge through effortful thought and the unencumbering of the mind.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/0270319X.2022.2151705
Alex M. R. Zhang
In this issue, I would like to continue to explore data in the DIKW (data-information-knowledge-wisdom) framework with a particular emphasis on the role that law librarians and libraries can play in ensuring data quality and transparency to help redress the issue of replicability (and reproducibility1) in the context of legal research and scholarship. As always, the point of this new column is to explore issues important to our profession and that could become a worthy topic to research and discuss in more depth. As mentioned before, this column never pretends to be exhaustive or conclusive; instead, it aims to suggest a few topics as a starting point. In a joint statement released in October 2022, eleven law reviews and journals from nine US law schools asked for the creation of rules requiring the disclosure of data and code used in published empirical legal studies. The joint declaration is an encouraging and constructive move driven by “concerns regarding the reliability and replicability of empirical social scientific results.”2 All academic fields, including science, engineering, social and behavioral sciences, and management, have long struggled with the problem of replication.3 A 2013 article in The Economist titled “How Science Goes Wrong” attracted the public's attention to the issues with reproducibility and
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/0270319X.2023.2161188
Jingwei Zhang
Abstract Chat reference has been a popular form of synchronous virtual reference used by academic libraries. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, many academic law libraries have also adopted this tool to provide reference services remotely. This article examines the current usage of chat reference among academic law libraries through a survey of law library websites of all ABA-Accredited law schools. The author discusses the advantages of using chat reference, the staffing issue, and possible solutions to that. The author suggests the usage of chatbot to extend reference hours and create a more interactive and welcoming atmosphere to library website users.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/0270319X.2022.2151708
Alex M. R. Zhang
Welcome to Legal Reference Services Quarterly. In this issue, we focus on three critical issues in the realm of legal information and law libraries. Law librarian, Jingwei Zhang, presents and discusses her study on chat reference services offered in academic law libraries in the US during the pandemic in her article, “User-Engaged Virtual Reference Service: A Survey of Chat Reference in Academic Law Libraries”. Zhang also suggests cost-effective tools that academic law libraries could use to think about putting these services in place. An essential component of democracy is open access to public information. On the other hand, a lot of government materials are unavailable to the public because they are labeled as classified information. “When the Goalposts Move” by Rebecca Chapman gives a thorough history of executive orders and their trends in the classification of government information. In the thoughtful conclusion to her article, the author discusses the important roles that law librarians may play in moving this important debate forward, both in theory and in practice. The column “Librarians as Model Thinkers” continues to explore data in the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom pyramid. The discussion centers on how librarians and legal-information scholars may help promote replicability in empirical legal research by improving data accessibility, drawing on our collective expertise in metadata creation.
欢迎浏览法律参考服务季刊。在这一期中，我们重点关注法律信息和法律图书馆领域的三个关键问题。法律馆员张经纬在《用户参与虚拟参考服务:高校法律图书馆聊天参考调查》一文中介绍并讨论了她对疫情期间美国高校法律图书馆提供的聊天参考服务的研究。Zhang还建议，学术法律图书馆可以使用经济有效的工具来考虑将这些服务落实到位。民主的一个重要组成部分是公开获取公共信息。另一方面，许多政府资料由于被标记为机密信息而无法向公众公开。丽贝卡·查普曼(Rebecca Chapman)的《当门柱移动时》(When the Goalposts Move)详细介绍了行政命令的历史及其在政府信息分类方面的趋势。在她文章的深思熟虑的结论中，作者讨论了法律图书馆员在推动这一重要辩论中可能发挥的重要作用，无论是在理论上还是在实践中。“图书馆员作为模范思考者”专栏继续探索数据-信息-知识-智慧金字塔中的数据。讨论的重点是图书馆员和法律信息学者如何利用我们在元数据创建方面的集体专业知识，通过提高数据可访问性，帮助促进实证法律研究的可复制性。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/0270319x.2022.2146922
Rebecca Elaine Tavares Chapman
Abstract This article reviews forty years of executive orders on classified information to compare what has changed over time. Over time, scholars note a negative impact on their work and what the public knows. This begs the question of what librarians can do in response to the limitations placed on access to information via executive orders. How librarians address these issues and how we can frame the issues in our approaches rounds out the discussion.
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