The Law Librarian’s Role in the Scholarly Enterprise Colloquium

Friday, November 21, 2008

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On November 20-21, 2008, the Law School and the Coleman Karesh Law Library held a conference entitled, The Law Librarian’s Role in the Scholarly Enterprise. Approximately 50 law librarians from around the U.S. attended and discussed how law librarians can improve and support legal scholarship in light of technological advances. Stanley Katz, Professor at Princeton University, delivered the Keynote address focusing on the librarian’s core intellectual skill of selecting materials and building collections (both electronic and print) to support faculty scholarship. Other presentations focused on the use of bibliographic management software to manage scholarship, the instructional role of librarians in improving information competency in the age of the internet, a call for a formal institutional scholarly role of a “professional research associate” within law libraries, and a discussion of librarian status within the academy.

Video of the presentations are available on this web page. Selected papers will be published in a future issue of the Journal of Law and Education.

Email Duncan Alford for more information about this event.

Streaming Video

• Part 1: Welcome - Walter F. Pratt, Jr.; Duncan Alford
• Part 2: Keynote - Stanley Katz
• Part 3: Historical Perspective - Michael Slinger
• Part 4: The Librarian's Scholarly Role: Views from a Newer Generation of Librarians - Simon Canick; Dana Neacsu; Thomas Mills
• Part 5: A Dean’s Perspective - Walter F. Pratt, Jr.
• Part 6: A Faculty Perspective - Danielle Holley-Walker
• Part 7: Context and the Role of the Law Librarian in the Scholarly Enterprise - Barbara Bintliff
• Part 8: Supporting Scholarship: Thoughts on the Role of the Academic Law Librarian - Richard Danner
• Part 9: Roundtable - Danner, Neacsu, Canick, Bintliff, Mills, Slinger