Law Librarianship in the Digital Age [Hardcover]

It is absolutely essential that todays law librarians are digitally literate in addition to possessing an understanding and awareness of recent advancements and trends in information technology as they pertain to the library field. Law Libraries in the Digital Age offers a one-stop, comprehensive guide to achieving both of those goals.

This go-to resource covers the most cutting-edge developments that face todays modern law libraries, including e-Books, mobile device management, Web scale discovery, cloud computing, social software, and much more. These critical issues and concepts are approached from the perspective of tech-savvy library leaders who each discuss how forward-thinking libraries are tackling such traditional library practices as reference, collection development, technical services, and administration in this new digital age.

Each chapter explores the key concepts and issues that are currently being discussed at major law library conferences and events today and looks ahead to whats on the horizon for law libraries in the future. Chapters have been written by the fields top innovators from all areas of legal librarianship, including academic, government, and private law libraries, who have strived to provide inspiration and guidance to tomorrows law library leaders.

Law Librarianship in the Digital Age pulls into one place introductory information on almost every topic about which a law firm librarian might be curious. ... I read through many other chapters in this book and found that the quality of editing throughout was superb, the bibliographies were thoughtfully constructed, the book was extremely timely, and the writing and organization were clear and helpful. The table of contents is thorol“¡