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Worldwide Access To Foreign Law: International And National Developments Toward Digital Authentication, Claire M. Germain Jan 2013

Worldwide Access To Foreign Law: International And National Developments Toward Digital Authentication, Claire M. Germain

UF Law Faculty Publications

This paper was originally presented at the World Library & Information Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), Helsinki, Finland, August 2012, as part of a panel on Promoting Global Access to Law: Developing an Open Access Index for Official Authenticated Legal Information, Part II. Europe. It focuses on worldwide access to the official word of the law, specifically to statutes, codes, regulations, court decisions, and international agreements in different foreign countries. The importance of improving global access to foreign law was highlighted at a 2012 joint European Commission/Hague Conference on Private International Law, with the …


Remembering Harry Bitner: Law Librarian, Professor, And Wonderful Colleague, Claire M. Germain Apr 2002

Remembering Harry Bitner: Law Librarian, Professor, And Wonderful Colleague, Claire M. Germain

UF Law Faculty Publications

Professor Harry Bitner was an outstanding law librarian who shaped many of our best libraries, who was a mentor to many younger law librarians, and who provided leadership to the law library profession and to legal education generally.


Books Vs. Non-Book Information, Betty W. Taylor Jan 1996

Books Vs. Non-Book Information, Betty W. Taylor

UF Law Faculty Publications

Book survival, particularly in the field of law, is faced with various challenges in this modern age of computer technology." Are law librarians at the crossroads where we have chosen non-book resources over books because of their superiority in content and value? Will books survive? Will only some types of books survive? These questions serve as fodder for futurists, happy solutions for financial woes of administrators, and concern of librarians about service, space, and, perhaps most important of all, their own survival.


Law Library Consortium Data Base Components And Standards Study Group Report, George S. Grossman, Dan F. Henke, Betty W. Taylor Feb 1977

Law Library Consortium Data Base Components And Standards Study Group Report, George S. Grossman, Dan F. Henke, Betty W. Taylor

UF Law Faculty Publications

The Data Base Components and Standards Committee of the Law Library Consortium recommends the establishment of a national law data base to meet the multi-faceted needs of the legal community for legal and law-related information. The scope of the Report includes bibliographic description and control, as well as subject and full-text access to Anglo-American, foreign, comparative, and international law materials in monographs, serials, non-book media including audio-visual and computerized information, computerassisted instruction, confidential data control and resource persons. Standardsf or inputting information are suggested.


Bibliographic Control And Guides To Historical Sources, Part I - American Law Library Book Catalogs, Betty W. Taylor Aug 1976

Bibliographic Control And Guides To Historical Sources, Part I - American Law Library Book Catalogs, Betty W. Taylor

UF Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Book Selection And Acquisitions: Comments And Annotated Bibliography, Betty W. Taylor, William W. Gaunt Feb 1970

Book Selection And Acquisitions: Comments And Annotated Bibliography, Betty W. Taylor, William W. Gaunt

UF Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.