Thanks Steve.
Timely indeed.
This morning I engaged in a debate with a partner about throwing out one of our four print sets of our State's case reporters (to save floor space and reduce redundancy of resources).
At noon I will attend a seminar at the local Law School to talk with law students interested in careers as Law Librarians.
According to our partner, new attorneys don't bother reading and analyzing a case anymore. They are victims of the digitalization of the law library. They research by the copy&paste method (LOIS WEXIS).
This article includes a good discussion about the paradox of :
1) learning about the law--info retrieval and digital technology of law libraries versus
2) learning to be a practitioner of the law--conventional law school education
I think that my noon-hour theme will suggest that these law students carefully cultivate a balance of the two.
Bob Hughes
Librarian
Paine, Hamblen, Coffin, Brooke & Miller LLP
1200 Washington Trust Building
717 W. Sprague
Spokane, WA 99201
Phone: (509) 455-5392
FAX: (509) 838-0007
e-mail: bhughes@painehamblen.com
>>> "Steven C. Perkins" <sperkins@andromeda.rutgers.edu> 10/08/02 08:06AM >>>
First Monday has published an article of possible interest to Law-Lib readers:
Paul Duguid, The Social Life of Legal Information,
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_9/duguid/index.html
He argues that law libraries have been transformed by electronic resources
and law schools have not.
Regards,
Steven C. Perkins
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