Calling All Academic Librarians in All Departments: Let’s Evaluate the ABA Standards for Academic Law Libraries
As part of a continuing effort to keep the law school accreditation process current, the American Bar Association Committee on Legal Education will soon turn its attention to reviewing law school library standards and considering revisions. The 2004 standards appear in chapter 6, Library and Information Resources (http://www.abanet.org/legaled/standards/chapter6.html) and in chapter 7, Facilities, standard 702, Law Library (http://www.abanet.org/legaled/standards/chapter7.html).
The American Bar Association is soliciting input from various groups, including AALL, AALS and CALI members. The ABA Law Library Committee has been charged with gathering the ideas of AALL members and presenting them to the American Bar Association. Towards that end, Judith Wright will post individual standards to the Professional Development Online Forum and solicit your comments. She will gather, compile, and report to the Committee about the discussion on this listserv. There is much at stake and she hopes that you can take the time to comment on the Standards.
In most states students cannot be admitted to practice without graduating from an accredited law school. All academic law librarians need to understand the Standards that must be met in order to be accredited by the American Bar Association. This Online Forum will promote an essential competency:
1.3 Understands and supports the culture and context of the library and its parent institution
In addition, this Online Forum will enhance competencies of the participants for the following Competencies:
2.7 Provides leadership within the parent organization to ensure that the library is vital to that organization
2.9 Tracks, anticipates, and influences changes in policy and legislation that impact the library and the profession
5.1 Creates collection development policies that are appropriate to the overall mission of the parent organization
6.4 Designs curricula and methods to meet the educational needs of clients and evaluates the educational process for effectiveness
6.5 Educates clients in the methodologies of legal research
6.6 Provides training and guidance on the organization and use of legal resources in various formats
The moderators will be Judith Wright, Glen-Peter Ahlers, Pauline Aranas, Steve Hinckley, Timothy Kearley, Rita Reusch, Charles Ten Brink, Chris Simoni, and Carol Nicholson. The discussion will begin on May 17-31.
We hope that the forum will provide an interesting discussion. You are invited to join in. To do so, just click on this link: www.aallnet.org/prodev/listserv.asp to subscribe. If that is a problem contact Pam Deemer at libped@law.emory.edu.
The good news is that the discussion is just for two weeks, beginning [date], but after that the list subscribers will be purged; you will not be subscribing to a permanent list that will fill your mailbox with mail for ever and ever. Subscribers to past Career Development/Prodev forums, please note: Because Prodevs subscriber list is purged after each forum, you will have to re-subscribe for this new one.
Join in, and hear what your colleagues will be talking about over for those two weeks.
Judith Wright
Associate Dean for Library and Information Services
University of Chicago D’Angelo Law Library
Pam Deemer libped@law.emory.edu
Assistant Law Librarian
Cataloging and Acquisition Services
Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library
Emory University
1301 Clifton Road
Atlanta GA 30322-2780
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