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Remembering Harry Bitner: Law Librarian, Professor, And Wonderful Colleague, Claire M. Germain
Remembering Harry Bitner: Law Librarian, Professor, And Wonderful Colleague, Claire M. Germain
Claire Germain
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.
Michael Brown, Eric Garner, And Law Librarianship, Ronald E. Wheeler
Michael Brown, Eric Garner, And Law Librarianship, Ronald E. Wheeler
Faculty Scholarship
Professor Wheeler discusses the police killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. He posits that racialized fear is part of what fuels such violence and discusses examples of how racialized fear have impacted his personal life. Wheeler then discusses how and why law librarians can and should be prepared to discuss such events with their law library patrons.
Issues And Trends In Collection Development For East Asia Legal Materials, Xiaomeng Zhang, Joostaek Lee, Keiko Okuhara, Evelyn Ma
Issues And Trends In Collection Development For East Asia Legal Materials, Xiaomeng Zhang, Joostaek Lee, Keiko Okuhara, Evelyn Ma
Jootaek Lee
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.
Managing Disruptive Patron Behavior In Law Libraries: A Grey Paper, Nicole P. Dyszlewski, Kristen R. Moore, Genevieve B. Tung
Managing Disruptive Patron Behavior In Law Libraries: A Grey Paper, Nicole P. Dyszlewski, Kristen R. Moore, Genevieve B. Tung
Librarian Scholarship at Penn Law
Nearly all law library staff has encountered or will encounter challenging patron behavior. In this article, the authors develop best practices based on their 2014 online survey of law library staff, follow-up correspondence with several survey respondents, and a review of case law and relevant literature within law librarianship and other fields.
Libraries And Legal Education, Jonathan Franklin
Libraries And Legal Education, Jonathan Franklin
Librarians' Chapters in Books
Academic law libraries are in the midst of radical change, probably more so than at any time in the past 100 years. Two factors are converging that make business as usual no longer viable for academic law libraries: transition of legal resources from print to digital formats and economic changes in legal education.
Best Practices for Legal Education did not address the role of law libraries in the delivery of legal education. The changes facing law schools suggest now is the time to articulate how libraries can best contribute to the endeavor. How can best practices for law libraries be …
Library Director As Educator: Analysis Two, Case Analysis And Commentary, Sally H. Wise
Library Director As Educator: Analysis Two, Case Analysis And Commentary, Sally H. Wise
Books and Book Chapters
No abstract provided.
Law Libraries And Laboratories: The Legacies Of Langdell And His Metaphor, Richard A. Danner
Law Libraries And Laboratories: The Legacies Of Langdell And His Metaphor, Richard A. Danner
Faculty Scholarship
Law Librarians and others have often referred to Harvard Law School Dean C.C. Langdell’s statements that the law library is the lawyer’s laboratory. Professor Danner examines the context of what Langdell through his other writings, the educational environment at Harvard in the late nineteenth century, and the changing perceptions of university libraries generally. He then considers how the “laboratory metaphor” has been applied by librarians and legal scholars during the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. The article closes with thoughts on Langdell’s legacy for law librarians and the usefulness of the laboratory metaphor.
Implementing Effective Education In Specific Contexts, Ruth Anne Robbins, Amy E. Sloan, Kristen Konrad Robbins-Tiscione
Implementing Effective Education In Specific Contexts, Ruth Anne Robbins, Amy E. Sloan, Kristen Konrad Robbins-Tiscione
All Faculty Scholarship
This chapter of Building on Best Practices: Transforming Legal Education in a Changing World includes contributions from many authors:
- Section A, The Socratic Method, is by Elizabeth G. Porter
- Section B, Analysis, Research, and Communication in Skills-Focused Courses, is by Ruth Anne Robbins, Amy Sloan & Kristen K. Tiscione
- Section C, Use of Technology in Teaching, is by Michele Pistone and Warren Binford
- Section D, Law Libraries and Legal Education, is by Jonathan Franklin
- Section E, Cross-Border Teaching and Collaboration, is by Kimberly D. Ambrose, William H. D. Fernholz, Catherine F. Klein, Dana Raigrodski, Stephen A. Rosenbaum & Leah Wortham …
Mental Illness In The Library: Ten Tips To Better Serve Patrons, Nick Harrell, Cindy Guyer
Mental Illness In The Library: Ten Tips To Better Serve Patrons, Nick Harrell, Cindy Guyer
Publications
No abstract provided.
Indiana's Government Information Day Focuses On Change, Access & Continuity, Jennifer Morgan, Sally Holterhoff
Indiana's Government Information Day Focuses On Change, Access & Continuity, Jennifer Morgan, Sally Holterhoff
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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The Career Path, Education, And Activities Of Academic Law Library Directors Revisited Twenty-Five Years Later, Michael J. Slinger, Sarah C. Slinger
The Career Path, Education, And Activities Of Academic Law Library Directors Revisited Twenty-Five Years Later, Michael J. Slinger, Sarah C. Slinger
Michael J. Slinger
No abstract provided.