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The research librarian in the educational mission of the law school
Abstract
Professor Attanasio discusses the contributions of academic law librarians in support of faculty research and through their own teaching and research. He comments on the implications of these activities for research librarians' professional stature and future roles in a period of scarce resources.
Ms. Millican and Professor Wallace describe a project to identify areas of research for academic law librarianship using a consensus-building methodology based on the Delphi Technique. Responses were ranked according to the immediacy of the research need, in an attempt to stimulate thought on the topic and perhaps provide the impetus for action.
Many non-director academic law librarians publish and teach legal research classes. Some hold faculty status as well. Law librarians have expertise in the development and delivery of legal research instruction methodologies and are developing a body of literature documenting their efforts to create and share a pedagogy of legal research instruction. Principles of shared faculty governance entitle library faculty to contribute to the development and delivery of a curriculum of legal research instruction. Encouraging law librarian participation in the shared governance of law schools should lead to increasing opportunities for the successful reform of legal education curricula with respect to legal research instruction.
How do legal scholars seek, find, and manage information in the course of producing a scholarly article or book? While the topic of legal research has been explored in the literature, few studies have been conducted exploring the research process of legal scholars, and the variety of information work that they do when they produce scholarship. This article organizes and addresses the most important research questions for understanding the research process of legal scholars. The article also addresses practical applications of this work for librarians, including the process of assessing faculty service and collection needs. Finally, it suggests a path for exploring these research questions with an empirical study, using qualitative methods.
Revised version of winning paper in 1990 Open Division competition. Advances in information technology and changing patterns of faculty research interest have created windows of opportunity for academic law library staffs to integrate their services and activities more fully into the law school community. Professor Slinger discusses how to take advantage of these opportunities, with examples from a successful program at the Notre Dame Law School Library.
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