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Finding The Middle Ground In Collection Development: How Academic Law Librarians Can Shape Their Collections In Response To The Call For More Practice-Oriented Legal Education, Leslie A. Street, Amanda M. Runyon

Leslie A. Street

To examine how academic law libraries can respond to the call for more practice-oriented legal education, the authors compared trends in collection management decisions regarding secondary sources at academic and law firm libraries. The results of their survey are followed by recommendations about how academic and firm librarians can work together to best provide law students with materials they will need in practice.

The Hitchhiker’S Guide To Collection Development In Academic Libraries, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

Rachel Wen-Paloutzian

Collection Engagement With Create Lists And Excel: Tips For A Perfect Match, Richard Wisneski

Richard Wisneski

Presentation creating queries, basic Excel setup and best practices, and functionality within Excel for collection development investigation

Scholarly Communication Coaching: Liaison Librarians' Shifting Roles, Todd Bruns, Steve Brantley, Kirstin Duffin

Steve Brantley

Two and a half decades into the open access (OA) movement, rapid changes in scholarly communication are creating significant demands on scholars. Today’s scholars must wrestle with meeting funder mandates for providing public access to their research, managing and preserving raw data, establishing/publishing open access journals, understanding the difference between “green OA” and “gold OA,” navigating the complicated issues around copyright and intellectual property, avoiding potentially predatory publishers, adapting their tenure plans to OA, and discovering increasing amounts of OA resources for their research and their curricular materials. These demands present an opportunity and a need for librarians to step …

Collection Development Best Practices Toolkit For Srs Librarians At Colby College, Margaret Ericson

Margaret D. Ericson

I developed this presentation and library guide in my capacity as collections coordinator for the Scholarly Resources and Services Librarians of the Colby College Libraries. It outlines the role of Scholarly Resources and Services Librarians in the building of library collections at Colby College, informed by best practices in the profession.