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Critical Collections: Bringing A Critical Eye To Law Library Collection Development, Nicholas Norton
Critical Collections: Bringing A Critical Eye To Law Library Collection Development, Nicholas Norton
Cornell Law Librarians' Publications
Law schools throughout the United States are considering strategies to embed the concepts of antiracism, diversity, equity, and inclusion into legal education. How does the work of their law libraries intersect with this effort? One potential point of intersection is through law library collection develpment. This article offers an overview of strategies to both curate and bolster representation of diverse voices in an academic law library collection using the theories of critical legal information literacy and epistemic injustice.
Law Library Collection Development Policy (January 2013), Georgia State University Law Library
Law Library Collection Development Policy (January 2013), Georgia State University Law Library
Law Library Policies
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Issues And Trends In Collection Development For East Asia Legal Materials, Joostaek Lee, Xiaomeng Zhang, Keiko Okuhara, Evelyn Ma
Issues And Trends In Collection Development For East Asia Legal Materials, Joostaek Lee, Xiaomeng Zhang, Keiko Okuhara, Evelyn Ma
Law Librarian Scholarship
The authors delineate the general policy and guidelines for developing foreign and transnational law collections in U.S. law libraries, and they analyze factors that shape East Asian collections, such as law libraries’ preservation and digitization efforts and their related cost-efficiency, and the availability and quality of English translations. The authors then discuss the main sources for Korean, Japanese, and Chinese law.
Finding The Middle Ground In Collection Development: How Academic Law Libraries Can Shape Their Collections In Response To The Call For More Practice-Oriented Legal Education, Leslie A. Street, Amanda Runyon
Finding The Middle Ground In Collection Development: How Academic Law Libraries Can Shape Their Collections In Response To The Call For More Practice-Oriented Legal Education, Leslie A. Street, Amanda Runyon
Librarian Scholarship at Penn Law
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.
How Many Copies Are Enough? Using Citation Studies To Limit Journal Holdings, Kincaid C. Brown
How Many Copies Are Enough? Using Citation Studies To Limit Journal Holdings, Kincaid C. Brown
Law Librarian Scholarship
Mr. Brown introduces the University of Michigan Law Library’s use of citation study literature to develop a new policy regarding the number of duplicate copies of law review titles to be held in the library’s collection. The specifics of the new policy are described
Capturing The Literature Of The Bar: A Proposal For Library Package Plans, Georgia Briscoe
Capturing The Literature Of The Bar: A Proposal For Library Package Plans, Georgia Briscoe
Publications
Publications of state and local bar associations are difficult for libraries to acquire and maintain because bar associations' publication activities are often not centralized. Standing orders or package plans will enhance services of bar associations. The American Bar Association and Illinois State Bar Association offer models for other states to follow.