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What's In A Name? A Gen Xer And Gen Yer Explore What It Means To Be Members Of Their Generations In The Workplace, Lauren M. Collins, Elizabeth A. Yates

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

In the NextGen Librarian's Survival Guide by Rachel Singer Gordon, the author cites several reasons this time is different than times before in librarianship. Those that are most relevant to law librarianship include:

• Flattening workplace hierarchies and participative management increase the input of newer librarians in workplace decision making

• New technologies require changing skills that affect attitudes toward the integration of those technologies into our daily work

• Outside pressures, such as the prevalence of the Internet, impose a need for librarians to continually prove our relevance and improve relations with younger patrons

• The much talked about …

Research And The Justice Mission Of Law Schools, Mark Tushnet

Cleveland State Law Review

There are some obvious things to say about research and the justice mission of law schools, and many other contributors to this discussion have said them. For example, jurisprudence lies at the core of the classical legal curriculum, and-at least in the contemporary law school-definitions of justice are part of the jurisprudence syllabus. Because the concept of justice is not self-defining, conceptual inquiry into the meaning of justice, a traditional mode of legal research, is recurrently needed. In this way, research is tightly linked to the justice mission of law schools. In this piece, I move from global concerns--jurisprudence in …

Information Science Techniques For Legal Searching, Deborah C. Goshien

Cleveland State Law Review

Information scientific methods can be combined with current legal searching techniques to improve the usefulness and cost-effectiveness of computerized legal research. By combining methods from several disciplines, the lawyer-user may be enabled to locate relevant material that might be missed in either a manual or a straight word-byword computer search.

A Case For Computers In Law Practice, Donald J. Elardo

Cleveland State Law Review

There is no profession which has more to gain from dramatic new technological developments for the automation of information than the legal profession.

Problem Of Selection In Law Libraries, Theodore Samore

Cleveland State Law Review

Law libraries, like soap, come in three sizes -large, giant, and super. It is also true that law libraries, like taxes, living expenses, populations and college enrollments are rapidly expanding and the end is not in sight. Use determines the growth of a library. As long as students, professors and practitioners ask for more books, more periodicals and more services the library must expand.