Researchers in institutions of higher education depend on access to the scholarly record, and academic libraries play a critical role in supporting this research. As academic collections shift to primarily electronic format, research support is in jeopardy. Copyright holders, through the use of licensing and contracts to control electronic works, limit or prohibit interlibrary loan and other means of research support. As predominantly digital library collections increase, libraries may find that they have locked collections. They will be unable to lend or to borrow. This article examines how increased reliance on e-collections impacts the ability of academic libraries to support research and explores and assesses various approaches to ensure research support. The article urges that libraries actively pursue agreements that reinforce their mission to support the creation, dissemination and preservation of knowledge. At the same time, libraries must be agents of change, serving as active participants in the transformation of the scholarly communication system.
{"title":"Locked Collections: Copyright and the Future of Research Support","authors":"D. Jones","doi":"10.31228/osf.io/tbqw9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31228/osf.io/tbqw9","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers in institutions of higher education depend on access to the scholarly record, and academic libraries play a critical role in supporting this research. As academic collections shift to primarily electronic format, research support is in jeopardy. Copyright holders, through the use of licensing and contracts to control electronic works, limit or prohibit interlibrary loan and other means of research support. As predominantly digital library collections increase, libraries may find that they have locked collections. They will be unable to lend or to borrow. This article examines how increased reliance on e-collections impacts the ability of academic libraries to support research and explores and assesses various approaches to ensure research support. The article urges that libraries actively pursue agreements that reinforce their mission to support the creation, dissemination and preservation of knowledge. At the same time, libraries must be agents of change, serving as active participants in the transformation of the scholarly communication system.","PeriodicalId":44477,"journal":{"name":"Law Library Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2013-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69640764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In August 2012, the American Bar Association, recognizing the influence of technology, amended the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. These changes to the standards of professional conduct require attorneys to have some basic technological competence. This work focuses on specific areas in which law librarians may find opportunities to share both newly developed and well-established technological expertise with attorneys.
{"title":"Lawyers Can't Be Luddites Anymore: Do Law Librarians Have a Role in Helping Lawyers Adjust to the New Ethics Rules Involving Technology?","authors":"Darla W. Jackson","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2330333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2330333","url":null,"abstract":"In August 2012, the American Bar Association, recognizing the influence of technology, amended the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. These changes to the standards of professional conduct require attorneys to have some basic technological competence. This work focuses on specific areas in which law librarians may find opportunities to share both newly developed and well-established technological expertise with attorneys.","PeriodicalId":44477,"journal":{"name":"Law Library Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2013-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68110101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores the costs and benefits of publishing tribal law. Part I analyzes why tribal law is not more widely available; part II illustrates the benefits of making tribal law more accessible, and part III describes publication options for tribes. An appendix lists currently available tribal law collections.
{"title":"'Whatever Tribal Precedent There May Be': The (Un)Availability of Tribal Law","authors":"Bonnie J. Shucha","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2308056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2308056","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the costs and benefits of publishing tribal law. Part I analyzes why tribal law is not more widely available; part II illustrates the benefits of making tribal law more accessible, and part III describes publication options for tribes. An appendix lists currently available tribal law collections.","PeriodicalId":44477,"journal":{"name":"Law Library Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2013-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68084590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Academic law libraries face a challenging future. The cost of legal information sources continues to rise while law library budgets continue to shrink. As budgets tighten the tension between collecting print and electronic sources has come to a juncture where law libraries might need to choose one over the other. Academic law libraries are not necessarily free to make a wholesale switch from print to online. Standard 606 of the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools must be considered before an academic law library can truly pitch the majority of its print resources. This article examines the evolution of Standard 606 and its impact on academic law libraries. There is great hope that Standard 606 has evolved to a point where academic law libraries might be free to make the hard collection choices that will help them thrive in the twenty-first century.
{"title":"Book Burning in the Twenty-First Century: ABA Standard 606 and the Future of Academic Law Libraries as the Smoke Clears","authors":"M. Whiteman","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2284375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2284375","url":null,"abstract":"Academic law libraries face a challenging future. The cost of legal information sources continues to rise while law library budgets continue to shrink. As budgets tighten the tension between collecting print and electronic sources has come to a juncture where law libraries might need to choose one over the other. Academic law libraries are not necessarily free to make a wholesale switch from print to online. Standard 606 of the ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure for Approval of Law Schools must be considered before an academic law library can truly pitch the majority of its print resources. This article examines the evolution of Standard 606 and its impact on academic law libraries. There is great hope that Standard 606 has evolved to a point where academic law libraries might be free to make the hard collection choices that will help them thrive in the twenty-first century.","PeriodicalId":44477,"journal":{"name":"Law Library Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2013-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68061291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article suggests a new set of filters through which to evaluate law library services, in particular those that support faculty scholarship. Factors include profound changes in legal education, and motivators of today’s law professors. Understanding the needs of self-interested deans and professors, libraries can fill new roles that are consistent with our core values. In particular we can focus on dissemination and promotion of faculty work, especially through innovative open access projects.
{"title":"Library Services for the Self-Interested Law School: Enhancing the Visibility of Faculty Scholarship","authors":"S. Canick","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2184432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2184432","url":null,"abstract":"This article suggests a new set of filters through which to evaluate law library services, in particular those that support faculty scholarship. Factors include profound changes in legal education, and motivators of today’s law professors. Understanding the needs of self-interested deans and professors, libraries can fill new roles that are consistent with our core values. In particular we can focus on dissemination and promotion of faculty work, especially through innovative open access projects.","PeriodicalId":44477,"journal":{"name":"Law Library Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67973872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores the evolving public mission of the public law school library. Following a brief overview of the history of the public university and its public mission, the article examines the mission of state-supported law schools — particularly those affiliated with public research universities — and explores how that mission is affected as those law schools transition to a model of greater financial self-sufficiency. This consideration of the public mission of the public law school is crucial to understanding the public mission of the public law school library, as the library exists to support the law school’s mission. The article next reviews the public law school library’s traditional public mission and the unique challenges the public academic law library now faces in fulfilling that mission. The article concludes by encouraging public law school libraries to examine and, as necessary, redefine their public missions and to take a broader view of their role in supporting their law schools’ public missions. Public law school libraries also are encouraged to collaborate with one another and with state-supported university libraries to fulfill their public missions on a national basis.
{"title":"The Public Mission of the Public Law School Library","authors":"Connie S. Lenz","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2101234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2101234","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the evolving public mission of the public law school library. Following a brief overview of the history of the public university and its public mission, the article examines the mission of state-supported law schools — particularly those affiliated with public research universities — and explores how that mission is affected as those law schools transition to a model of greater financial self-sufficiency. This consideration of the public mission of the public law school is crucial to understanding the public mission of the public law school library, as the library exists to support the law school’s mission. The article next reviews the public law school library’s traditional public mission and the unique challenges the public academic law library now faces in fulfilling that mission. The article concludes by encouraging public law school libraries to examine and, as necessary, redefine their public missions and to take a broader view of their role in supporting their law schools’ public missions. Public law school libraries also are encouraged to collaborate with one another and with state-supported university libraries to fulfill their public missions on a national basis.","PeriodicalId":44477,"journal":{"name":"Law Library Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2139/SSRN.2101234","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67911052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Librarians are well positioned to improve law journal publishing and help it evolve in the ever-changing digital environment. They can provide student editors with advice on a variety of issues such as copyright, data preservation, and version control. Librarians can also help journals adopt technical standards and improve the discoverability and usability of journal content. While few libraries will be able to adopt all these suggestions, a checklist of ideas is provided to help librarians select those that are most suitable to their libraries and journals.
{"title":"How Librarians Can Help Improve Law Journal Publishing","authors":"Benjamin J. Keele, Michelle Pearse","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1993283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1993283","url":null,"abstract":"Librarians are well positioned to improve law journal publishing and help it evolve in the ever-changing digital environment. They can provide student editors with advice on a variety of issues such as copyright, data preservation, and version control. Librarians can also help journals adopt technical standards and improve the discoverability and usability of journal content. While few libraries will be able to adopt all these suggestions, a checklist of ideas is provided to help librarians select those that are most suitable to their libraries and journals.","PeriodicalId":44477,"journal":{"name":"Law Library Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67835791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright","authors":"Benjamin J. Keele","doi":"10.31228/osf.io/zgms4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31228/osf.io/zgms4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44477,"journal":{"name":"Law Library Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69641204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In the academic law library hiring process, candidates are assessed based on a variety of factors. The study conducted here focuses on education - specifically the institutional rank of degree-granting law and library science institutions - to explore how the rank of one's graduate education might influence hiring decisions at academic law libraries.
{"title":"Degree Pedigree: Assessing the Effect of Degree-Granting Institutions' Ranks on Prospective Employment at Academic Law Libraries","authors":"Ashley A. Ahlbrand, Michael Wright Johnson","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2204577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2204577","url":null,"abstract":"In the academic law library hiring process, candidates are assessed based on a variety of factors. The study conducted here focuses on education - specifically the institutional rank of degree-granting law and library science institutions - to explore how the rank of one's graduate education might influence hiring decisions at academic law libraries.","PeriodicalId":44477,"journal":{"name":"Law Library Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2139/SSRN.2204577","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67985796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Today’s technology permits students, academics in non-law fields and lay persons to be exposed to the political views, theories and philosophies of legal scholars. Law journals and their supporting institutions should provide background and context to this scholarly output by summarizing the published works and linking them, using devices such as QR codes, to readily understood, simply-expressed background materials. This effort will make the published scholarship accessible – at an education-appropriate level – to the inquiring reader. There is an essential element of social responsibility in the exercise.
{"title":"Driving Pedestrian Traffic to Law Journals","authors":"Michael N. Widener","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1962690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1962690","url":null,"abstract":"Today’s technology permits students, academics in non-law fields and lay persons to be exposed to the political views, theories and philosophies of legal scholars. Law journals and their supporting institutions should provide background and context to this scholarly output by summarizing the published works and linking them, using devices such as QR codes, to readily understood, simply-expressed background materials. This effort will make the published scholarship accessible – at an education-appropriate level – to the inquiring reader. There is an essential element of social responsibility in the exercise.","PeriodicalId":44477,"journal":{"name":"Law Library Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2011-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67814109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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