The legal information environment is deep, wide, and dynamic with many participants, including courts, parliaments, legislatures, and administrative bodies. None exemplifies the agile, knowledge-engaging legal player better than the law firm. Current, authoritative information is essential for the successful representation of clients. The firm's most dependable resource for retrieving information is its library staff. Law Firm Librarianship introduces the reader to the challenges, qualifications, and work conditions of this distinct type of research librarian. The book begins by asking what law firm librarianship is, whilst the second chapter focuses on the law firm and its culture. The third chapter covers the law firm library itself, including the practical aspects of the firm librarian's interaction with his or her professional environments. The next chapter considers the effects of legal publishing practices, and the penultimate section surveys the various research tools the firm librarian relies on for sound knowledge. The book concludes by looking at the dynamic qualities of law firm librarianship. Offers an up-to-date overview from an experienced practitioner Adds to the library literature by addressing a type of librarianship that usually receives little attention Applies field knowledge about legal information trends that will inform related areas of inquiry
Leading Law Firm Librarians Offer Strategies for Adapting to a Changing Role The Changing Role of Law Firm Librarianship is an authoritative, insider's perspective on key strategies for understanding and...
Written by leading practitioners and visionaries like Robert Ambrogi, this groundbreaking survey of current practices and future trends offers an incisive examination of the evolving roles for law librarians.
Where can librarians turn? Okay, that one's easy--to Anthony Aycock s The Accidental Law Librarian.--From publisher description.
Law Librarianship in the Digital Age offers a one-stop, comprehensive guide to achieving both of those goals.
should also teach legal research skills.122 They should create online information portals that provide students ... Robert C. Berring Jr., “A Brief History of Law Librarianship,” in Law Librarian- ship in the Twenty-First Century, ed.
In this book, Hamilton teaches librarians how to teach themselves about legal research and resources, as well as offering practical ideas for types of legal programs and outreach that they can proactively offer patrons.
CONTEXTUAL PROBLEM I: “LIKE SANDS THROUGH THE HOURGLASS ... ”6 The next part of this article provides two examples of how a contextual research problem was developed. In the first example, the student is told he is a law clerk working ...
The report also looks at plans for spending on many specific, major legal publishers, and at librarian views on new innovations in legal publishing, particularly the use of artificial intelligence.Also covered in detail: plans for in-person ...
This fourth edition of Oregon Legal Research continues its process-oriented approach to state legal research.
"The modern legal library is caught in a transformative stage.