[LAW-LIB:57749] Law Library Journal - responses requested for article on changes in law libraries

From: Sinder, Janet (JSinder@law.umaryland.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 12:15:53 PST

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    At the beginning of a new year, and in the last year of the first decade
    of the 21st century, it seems appropriate to think about the way our
    lives, and our workplaces, have changed. For an article I hope to
    publish in the Spring 2009 issue of Law Library Journal, I'm collecting
    responses from law librarians on the following topic:

     

    In these days of rapid change in the way we do everything from
    circulation to cataloging to reference (in fact almost everything in
    libraries has changed) what do you miss most about the way things used
    to be in your law library and why?

     

    It could be a particular reference book or a database, a way of doing
    something, , or even a type of interaction you used to have with
    patrons.

     

    If you're too new to the profession to remember "the way things used to
    be," is there a source or a procedure in your law library that strikes
    you as the most likely to disappear within the next few years? Why?

     

    Once I receive your responses, I will edit them into an article which I
    hope will give a good picture of how law librarians are experiencing all
    the changes in their libraries.

     

    As the deadline for the spring issue is approaching soon, please send me
    anything you'd like to submit by Friday, January 21. Your contribution
    can be contained in the text of an email or in a separate Word or
    WordPerfect document.

     

    Thanks,

    Janet

     

    Janet Sinder

    Editor, Law Library Journal

     

    Associate Director for Research Services

    Thurgood Marshall Law Library

    University of Maryland School of Law

    501 W. Fayette St.

    Baltimore, MD 21201

    Phone: 410.706.0792

    Fax: 410.706.0794

    Email: jsinder@law.umaryland.edu

     

     

     



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