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Leveraging Narratives: Communicating Value With Qualitative Content, Roger V. Skalbeck
Leveraging Narratives: Communicating Value With Qualitative Content, Roger V. Skalbeck
Law Faculty Publications
The contemporary law library is embodied by its information resources, physical space, technology infrastructure, and the people who make it all happen. Each of these elements can change dramatically with new information tools, shifting organizational demands and emerging service models.
One Person's Junk, Another Person's Treasures: Dissolving A Small Law Book Collection, Gail F. Zwirner
One Person's Junk, Another Person's Treasures: Dissolving A Small Law Book Collection, Gail F. Zwirner
Law Faculty Publications
Decisions to eliminate a book collection occur for various reasons, including retirement, downsizing a home library, or a sweet deal from an online vendor. Law librarians regularly receive inquiries about the purchase or donation of used law books. Many times these calls originate in a law school’s development office after an attorney school seeks his or her law school’s advice on eliminating a significant career investment. An attorney may turn to a law firm librarian for advice as well.
Building A Law Firm Library, Joyce Manna Janto
Building A Law Firm Library, Joyce Manna Janto
Law Faculty Publications
Opening a law practice is a daunting task. Renting space, equipping an office, and hiring staff are obvious first steps.But what about assembling a library?
Program Planning-Ideas For Improvement, Joyce Manna Janto
Program Planning-Ideas For Improvement, Joyce Manna Janto
Law Faculty Publications
Picture the scene: you're at the Annual Meeting, it's Tuesday, and you're listening to your fifth "talking head" presentation. At the front of the room are five librarians/speakers, each of whom has exactly 15 minutes to shower you with their words of wisdom on the selected topic. In the audience are scores of librarians, whose eyes are glazing over and whose thoughts are wandering to more congenial topics. Sound familiar? This describes way too many programs at the typical MLL Annual Meeting. Instead of a good, thought-provoking discussion, or vigorous give-and-take between panelists and audience, we get sound bites. Why …
A School Board's Authority Versus A Student's Right To Receive Information, Timothy L. Coggins
A School Board's Authority Versus A Student's Right To Receive Information, Timothy L. Coggins
Law Faculty Publications
This note examines the considerations which led the United States Supreme Court to determine that a school board's authority over the administration of the schools is not absolute if the exercise of this authority violates the constitutional rights of the students. Second. the note explores the development of a student's right to receive information through a school library as a guarantee of the first amendment, a right that cannot be ignored by a school board when the board removes books which it considers to be inappropriate either because of the ideas presented in the books or because of the local …