Pub Date : 2022-08-13DOI: 10.1080/0270319x.2022.2109342
Alex Zhang
As indicated in the previous issue, I want to begin a new column to promote dialogues and exchanges on law library services and operations using commonly recognized thinking concepts and intellectual models developed in different disciplines. The hope is to promote active thinking and occasionally, perhaps, unconventional thinking to help assess our past, examine our present, and forecast our future collectively. The purpose of this column is to recommend several areas for consideration as a starting point. The recommendation never intends to be comprehensive or conclusive.1 We invite your contribution as a response or an independent article under this broad theme to help make this dialogue more progressive, open-ended, and dynamic.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-10DOI: 10.1080/0270319x.2022.2109343
C. Nejdl, Shamika Dalton
Abstract Legal issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are critical for attorneys to recognize and understand in the practice of law. Legal research is one part of the law school curriculum through which students can significantly examine DEI issues. This article provides practical insights for managing legal research classrooms to support productive discussions about legal issues affecting diverse groups, including race, gender, sexual orientation, and religion. The authors explore DEI-related classroom management for in-person, online, and hybrid formats; provide classroom management scenarios to consider; and discuss how each scenario might be handled to maintain a healthy classroom environment.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-18DOI: 10.1080/0270319x.2022.2089809
Catherine M. Dunn, M. Whiteman
Abstract A long-standing gap exists between the legal research skills of many new law school graduates and the ones they need to succeed in the practice of the law. It is simply too difficult to teach legal research solely as part of the first-year required Legal Research & Writing course, which involves a single faculty member trying to teach a whole new way of writing at the same time as a whole new way of researching. Law librarians are the legal research experts in every law school, and they deploy a variety of solutions to try to address this gap. This article addresses one such solution: a noncredit legal research competency program to help students develop and strengthen their legal research skills. It is a flexible model that provides legal research instruction through a variety of techniques and across a variety of mediums.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-25DOI: 10.1080/0270319x.2022.2089810
Valeri Craigle, Aaron Retteen, Benjamin J. Keele
Abstract Though the vast majority of law reviews are now published online, very few law review publishers use persistent URLs, like DOI, to provide stable online access. The purpose of this article is to encourage law reviews to implement DOI, and demystifies the process for doing so.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-24DOI: 10.1080/0270319X.2022.2089808
Latia Ward
Abstract Information literacy focuses on knowing how to use information for work and civic duties, however, critical information literacy goes a step further to recognize that a source’s good reputation does not mean that the source is accurate or unbiased. Critical information literacy questions the motives of the systems that produce the information and includes the knowledge of students so that they influence the lesson as well. Librarians have made critical information literacy a part of their lessons in a variety of ways, and teaching critical information literacy is rooted in critical pedagogy. A review of the literature on critical information literacy and a discussion of the American Association of College and Research Libraries’ framework “Authority Is Constructed and Contextual” in a critical information literacy lesson in an advanced legal research class is considered.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-16DOI: 10.1080/0270319x.2022.2082810
Brian van Pottelsberghe
Abstract As institutions adapt to the new hybrid work environment brought about by COVID, they would be well served to reexamine their institution’s culture. In doing so, library administrators will assure that hybrid and onsite team members maintain a closer and purposeful connection to the organization along with a vested interest in its success.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-23DOI: 10.1080/0270319x.2022.2068278
Lori-Ann Craig, S. Davis
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic upended the lives of billions of people as well as the many services that people have come to rely upon for their needs. Libraries, and in particular, government law libraries, were not immune from this upheaval and were forced to reposition themselves to continue to provide valuable legal information services to a population that is underserved, selfrepresented litigants. In this article, the authors describe how one county law library expanded its reference services to include more virtual components.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-19DOI: 10.1080/0270319X.2022.2068280
Sam Williams
Abstract American law has long expressed preferences regarding its own presentation. This article explores those aesthetic preferences in the context of legal research tools. This article applies four aesthetics that appear across American law—The Grid, Energy, Perspectivist, and Dissociative Aesthetics—to traditional tools of legal research, which predominately reflect the Grid Aesthetic. Then this article engages in a conceptual evaluation of a new legal research tool within Lexis+, Ravel View, which is an exemplar of the Energy Aesthetic. This analysis explores the assumptions built into the presentation of the law and how to bridge the visual language divide in legal research.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-17DOI: 10.1080/0270319x.2022.2068279
Kincaid C. Brown
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