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The Tools Of Our Trade, Richard Leiter
The Tools Of Our Trade, Richard Leiter
Marvin and Virginia Schmid Law Library
During the past 30 years, computers and other digital tools have evolved from scientific curiosities that promised to make our lives easy and paperless and threatened to make libraries go away to ubiquitous means of communication, research, entertainment, news, and much, much more. Access to technology for librarians today is as critical as having access to leather-bound books once was for the earliest librarians. In order to communicate with peers, patrons, and colleagues and to conduct legal research and create scholarship, today we need a device that lets us “see” the communication or information. This article explores the changing role …
Much Ado About Authentication, Richard Leiter
Much Ado About Authentication, Richard Leiter
Marvin and Virginia Schmid Law Library
Much can be said about how libraries are adapting and new ways that we can continue to adapt to the rise in importance of digital resources and services. But there is a unique challenge that law libraries face that this article will attempt to address: the problem of authenticating digital legal materials. This necessity of authenticating legal materials has been articulated many times. However, there may actually be no need for authentication at all.
The question of authentication is a very important one to answer because law libraries have the responsibility of providing accurate versions of primary legal materials. It …