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Consumer Advocacy & Aall: Where We Have Been & Where We Are Going, Todd Melnick
Consumer Advocacy & Aall: Where We Have Been & Where We Are Going, Todd Melnick
Staff Publications
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Access To Justice & Academic Law Libraries, Todd Melnick, Christine Park
Access To Justice & Academic Law Libraries, Todd Melnick, Christine Park
Staff Publications
"A review of current A2J efforts, including lessons learned and best practices from Fordham Law School's parole Information Project."
Making The Case For Law Tech, Janet Kearney
Making The Case For Law Tech, Janet Kearney
Staff Publications
As the concept of a “practice-ready” attorney continues to grow in both law firms and law schools, law school libraries are meeting this need by offering programming related to legal technology. In this article, a law librarian from the United States discusses their successes and failures in creating and maintaining legal technology programming, a first step in a larger conversation on practice-ready law graduates. This article is based on a June 2021 presentation given at the annual conference of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians.
It Takes A Village: Developing Library Of Congress Genre/Form Terms, Janis L. Young, Yael Mandelstam
It Takes A Village: Developing Library Of Congress Genre/Form Terms, Janis L. Young, Yael Mandelstam
Staff Publications
The Library of Congress (LC) is in the process of developing a separate thesaurus of genre/form terms, which describe what a work or expression is, rather than what it is about. From the beginning, LC policy specialists realized that to accomplish this undertaking, it would be both necessary and desirable to collaborate with the library community. This article examines and evaluates the various methods of collaboration used by LC in the creation of the genre/form thesaurus.
(E-Book) Patron Driven Acquisitions (Pda): An Annotated Bibliography, Thomas Kaczorowski
(E-Book) Patron Driven Acquisitions (Pda): An Annotated Bibliography, Thomas Kaczorowski
Staff Publications
Patron Driven Acquisitions (PDA), also known as Demand Driven Acquisitions (DDA) and Purchase on Demand (POD), has been used by libraries since the early 1990’s. PDA allows libraries to acquire items based on the immediate needs of their patrons, often without library intervention. With the arrival of e-books in the late 1990’s, libraries soon began including them in their PDA workflows. PDA is controversial for several reasons, and PDA of E-books adds further issues to the debate. This bibliography covers PDA and the issues academic libraries face when devising a PDA program. Articles outline the benefits and problems of print …