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Beyond The Expected: Creating And Sustaining Relationships For Your Institutions, Claire M. Germain
Beyond The Expected: Creating And Sustaining Relationships For Your Institutions, Claire M. Germain
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In this day of upheaval in the library and information world, many law librarians have found ways to reaffirm their value to their parent organizations. They have created and now sustain relationships for their institutions—law schools, law firms, government entities, and other organizations—because they have the common good of the institution in mind and are there to stay. The purpose of this article is to inform, inspire, celebrate, and provide concrete examples for other libraries to follow. Library initiatives can lead to benefits for the institution that are larger than the library itself. They also reinforce the value of the …
Law Library 2.0: New Roles For Law Librarians In The Information Overload Era, Sasha Skenderija
Law Library 2.0: New Roles For Law Librarians In The Information Overload Era, Sasha Skenderija
Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers
WWW has rapidly evolved from a technological into a social medium. Web 2.0 has become a metaphor for the distributed and decentralized collaboration networks on a global scale. With the recent trends of new media development, the sources available have reached a critical mass resulting in an unprecedented information overload. The urgent challenge to all information professionals, in this case law librarians, is no longer availability and direct provision of resources, but rather the filtering and highlighting the ubiquitous Infosphere. The recent transformation of legal information has had more drastic consequences than in many other cases. The Cornell Law Library …