Finding the Middle Ground in Collection Development: How Academic Law Libraries Can Shape Their Collections in Response to the Call for More Practice-Oriented Legal Education

Authors

Leslie A. Street, William & Mary Law SchoolFollow
Amanda Runyon, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2010

Abstract

To examine how academic law libraries can respond to the call for more practice-oriented legal education, the authors compared trends in collection management decisions regarding secondary sources at academic and law firm libraries. The results of their survey are followed by recommendations about how academic and firm librarians can work together to best provide law students with materials they will need in practice.

Keywords

Legal education & practice, librarianship, collection development, empirical studies

Publication Citation

102 Law Libr. J. 399 (2010)

Repository Citation

Street, Leslie A. and Runyon, Amanda, "Finding the Middle Ground in Collection Development: How Academic Law Libraries Can Shape Their Collections in Response to the Call for More Practice-Oriented Legal Education" (2010). Librarian Scholarship at Penn Carey Law. 2.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/librarian_scholarship/2