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AALL/Aspen Law & Business Research Grant To Fund Information Management Survey
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Roger H. Parent, Executive Director
312/939-4764; publicrelations@aall.org
June 6, 1997. A comprehensive survey on the economics and management of
legal information will be funded by the American Association of Law
Libraries (AALL)/Aspen Law & Business Research Grant, a grant established
by Aspen Law & Business for the continued support of the AALL Research
Advisory Committee's research agenda.
The survey will focus on the improvement of data collection and analysis by
ascertaining the current status of old and new information systems. It
will also propose a new statistical database that will allow for
interpretive analyses and make recommendations to AALL, the American Bar
Association, and the American Association of Law Schools for the
improvement of data collection and analysis.
This survey was proposed by AALL members Betty W. Taylor (Clarence J.
TeSelle Professor of Law and Director of the Legal Information Center Legal
Information Center, University of Florida) and Dr. Robert J. Munro (Law
Librarian, College of Law, University of Florida).
Taylor will be the principal investigator for the survey and will
coordinate the questionnaire construction, revision, pretesting, and
administration and data analysis with direction from Professor Mary
Ferguson (Professor of Journalism and Assistant Dean for Research,
University of Florida). Professor Jeffery Harrison (Professor of Law,
College of Law, University of Florida) will contribute the insights of a
professional economist and lawyer in the analysis of the data. Munro will
assist Taylor, Ferguson and Harrison in all aspects of the project.
The AALL/Aspen Law & Business Grant Program has been designed to annually
fund one or more projects of practical value to a large segment of those
professions that create, disseminate or use legal and law-related
information. Aspen Law & Business views its contribution as an investment
in research that will provide a prospective look at the role of librarians,
researchers and legal information providers and will yield results to which
publishers can respond. The goal is to sponsor research that will have a
practical impact on our profession and inspire products and changes in the
marketplace.
The American Association of Law Libraries was founded in 1906 to promote
and enhance the value of law libraries to the legal and public communities,
to foster the profession of law librarianship, and to provide leadership in
the field of legal information.
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