Legal Research Boot Camp: One Approach to Meeting the Research Needs of Law Students

This article describes the legal research boot camp offered at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. It is an intensive, one-week course offered the first week of the summer break to prepare students for their summer clerkships. It is also a vehicle to teach law librarianship students how to teach legal research.     

A Methodical Approach to Legal Research: The Legal Research Plan,an Essential Tool for Today's Law Student and New Attorney

This article lays out an approach to teaching legal research through an examination of historical and contemporary approaches to legal research and research instruction. It discusses creating a research plan and reviews the most commonly used legal research texts. It concludes with sample research assignments and assessment tools.     

Use of Electronic Information Resources Among Research Scholars in the Islamia University of Bahawalpur,Pakistan

This study examined the use of electronic resources among academic scholars of The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB), Punjab, Pakistan. A quantitative survey was found most convenient and useful for this study. The total population of the study was 169 research students in IUB. The response rate was 79% and 133 utilizable responses were coded and analyzed by using SPSS software. Results of the study showed that most of the researchers (61%) used electronic resources daily for many purposes and reasons. Most of them (57%) were “satisfied” with the usage of electronic resources. Learning, education, and research were the main purposes, and easy use and easy access to documents were the major reasons of using these resources. Lack of internet connection is the major problem faced by the respondents.     

The Pedagogical Value of an Integrated Approach to Legal Research Instruction: Overcoming Student Resistance to the Use of Print Sources and Striking a Balance That Instills an Appreciation of the Strengths and Weaknesses of Both Print and Online Sources

The ABA Legal Technology Survey Reports from 2006 to 2012 reported that, on average, 51% of attorneys “regularly” used print materials. Given the propensity of law students to default to online research, this article describes the results of a three-year longitudinal study of an integrated approach to teaching first-year legal research. This approach required students conduct legal research tasks both online and in print sources, and to evaluate their experience. The objective of this approach was to transform the legal research experience from a “treasure hunt” into a much higher level of engagement based on Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning.     

电子信息资源自动编目的研究与实践

文章阐述了电子信息资源自动编目的策略问题 ,介绍了军队院校图书馆联合书目中心实现电子书刊自动编目所采用的策略及技术原理 ,探讨了电子信息资源集成服务所产生的效益 ,特别阐述了自动编目软件的功能及编目实践的结果。     

May It Please the Court: Law Students and Legal Research Instruction in Prison Law Libraries

According to the administrative office of the U.S. Courts, a significant part of the present docket of federal district courts consists of prisoner litigation. This category of litigation, composed largely of habeas corpus petitions, civil rights suits, and suits related to prison conditions, is often pressed by prisoners whose only legal assistance is the resources and materials available in their prison law library. Although prisoner litigation is an essential means of ensuring that our prisons and criminal justice systems operate within the confines of the U.S. Constitution, these often poorly researched and poorly written lawsuits also present special challenges to the federal courts tasked with processing them. This article explores how establishing programs that involve law students in teaching legal research in prison law libraries could help to both ameliorate the burdens that prisoner litigation places on the federal court system and improve prison law libraries’ ability to provide prisoners with meaningful access to the courts. The article begins by discussing the history of prisoner litigation in federal courts and describes four models of legal research instruction and assistance that have been employed in prisons. Based on the lessons learned from these efforts, the article presents a proposal for a prison legal research clinic that could be established by interested law schools and their librarians, and discusses the benefits to law students, prisoners, and the courts that such a program has the potential to deliver.     

我国档案馆电子文件信息资源公共获取现状及策略研究

运用实地调研及案例分析法调查、分析我国公共档案馆电子文件信息资源公共获取的现状,指出目前我国公共档案馆可供公众获取的电子文件信息资源数量有限、内容单一、电子文件信息资源真实性、完整性、可读性缺乏保障,而公民在线可获取的电子文件信息资源尤其匮乏,在线获取电子文件信息资源的检索系统设计不完善,针对这些问题提出完善立法、加强在线电子文件信息资源全文数据库及检索系统的建设、培育公民的信息素养及加强档案馆工作人员公共服务意识等若干策略建议。     

Joining the Conversation: Law Library Research Assistant Programs and Current Criticisms of Legal Education

Law libraries should play a greater role in addressing the current crisis in legal education. Proponents for educational reform often view libraries as a vehicle for cost savings, while overlooking the ability of libraries to train students in the skills and competencies that are essential for the practice of law. Libraries’ research assistant programs can be particularly effective in imparting workplace values and lawyering skills beyond the traditional law school curriculum. This article encourages libraries to build on the strengths of their research assistant programs as a substantive way to equip law students with essential skills for today's legal marketplace.     

Meeting Business Students' Legal Research Needs: A Selected List of Periodicals on Corporation,Securities, and Bankruptcy

Business students and practitioners are expected to understand the legal framework and the legal environment in which businesses function, but not the complicated black letter law and lengthy judicial opinions. In terms of legal research, different from law school students, business students and practitioners need more secondary legal source support from their libraries. This article will bring the unique legal research needs of business students and practitioners to librarians' attention. A list of selected legal periodicals on corporate law, securities regulations, and bankruptcy will be supplied for libraries to better meet those needs.     

网上中文社会科学信息资源利用研究--培训对用户利用行为的影响分析

本文试图从培训的角度,通过调查统计,研究网上中文社科信息资源的利用规律,侧重培训对用户利用行为的影响分析,结果表明,有些用户行为不因是否受过培训而改变,有些则因是否受过培训而不同,为了提高用户对网上中文社科信息资源的利用效率,建议用户主动参加图书情报方面的培训,网上资源提供者为用户培训提供方便。     

Assessing the Health Information Needs of Unaffiliated Health Professionals and Using Training on Openly Available Search Tools and Resources to Provide Solutions to Their Information Access Challenges and Barriers

This article will describe a year-long (2010–11) joint project between Columbia University Medical Center's Health Sciences Library and the Institute for Family Health (IFH), a network of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) serving disadvantaged populations in New York State. This National Institutes of Health-funded pilot project aimed to (a) determine the medical literature and training needs of IFH personnel, (b) develop generic licensing agreements with publishers that would enable a health sciences library to provide access to electronic resources for FQHC personnel, and (c) develop reference/education services for IFH personnel. How the reference and education aims were met will be described and discussed here as the lessons learned from this project may be useful to librarians considering doing instructional outreach to unaffiliated health professionals working at FQHCs nationwide.     

国外信息资源管理学科布局的考察与启示——基于29所iCaucus院校的调研数据

[目的/意义]国外将信息资源管理作为一门独立学科进行建设的实践较早,对其学科建设实践进行考察,有助于为我国信息资源管理学科建设提供新视野。[方法/过程]采用网络调查法和内容分析法,对29所iCaucus院校的专业设置情况以及英国、美国、加拿大、澳大利亚以及德国等五个国家的学科目录设置情况进行调查。[结果/结论]发现国外信息资源管理类专业设置具有传统图书情报档案管理专业与新兴专业并存、回应行业发展需求、学科交叉色彩浓厚等特征,并结合我国学科发展的情况提出以下建议：保留图书馆学、情报学与档案学的二级学科地位;结合院校学科优势,建设“行业+信息”模式的新兴二级学科;以开放主动的心态,推动学科交叉融合。     

Meeting the E-Resources Challenge through Collaboration: An OCLC Perspective on Effective Management,Access, and Delivery of Electronic Collections

The session explored how collaboration among libraries, suppliers, and the OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC) cooperative can address some of the problems being faced with the management of electronic resources. Examples of specific challenges that impact budgets and services are: libraries’ reliance on multiple non-interoperable systems; the difficulties in getting and maintaining high quality and timely metadata; and the issues with managing workflows that cross system and staff boundaries. As work continues to introduce and enhance integrated systems for electronic resource management, these cooperative efforts can improve both the quality of the services and the associated data and workflows.     

电子政务信息资源建设绩效评估研究——体系构想与保障机制维度

文章首先对电子政务信息资源的概念进行了界定 ,这是对我国电子政务信息资源建设进行科学评估的必要前提。第二部分 ,文章在借鉴国内外已有研究的基础上 ,初步构建出符合我国国情的电子政务信息资源建设绩效评估体系。最后 ,文章认为 ,开展电子政务信息资源建设绩效评估需要建立相应的保障机制 ,包括思想保障、法制保障、体制保障、技术保障等。     

网上中文社会科学信息资源利用研究——在校与非在校用户对比分析

本文试图从在校与否的角度对网上中文社科信息资源的利用情况进行研究,着重于在校与非在校人员信息利用行为的对比分析,总结出在校与非在校人员利用行为上的异同,建议网上中文社科信息资源建设针对使用对象的不同而有所不同,从而提高资源的针对性和使用效率。     

中美电子资源国家标准发展比较研究:方法与现状

[目的/意义]通过对中美电子资源国家标准的比较研究,发现中国现有电子资源标准规范的发展优势和缺失,理解和学习先进产业行业标准规范的具体工作流程,为中国电子资源标准规范建设提供参考,推动产业行业发展。[方法/过程]通过对中美大学图书馆联合项目"中美电子资源国家标准比较研究"方法论和中美电子资源国家标准的介绍,阐述中美电子资源标准规范的体系架构、制定原则、内容、标准化组织、更新维护、国际化程度等方面的发展现状,并进行初步分析。[结果/结论]总结中美电子资源国家标准和行业标准的发展特点,提出我国电子资源行业产业如果想有很大发展,就必须坚定创新标准规范与产业行业发展并行的思想,让标准规范成为推动行业产业发展的基础之一,引领产业行业的发展,提高产业发展效益。     

The Slavic Humanities Index: A New Electronic Tool for Scholarly Research in the Field of Central,Eastern, and Southeastern European Studies

In this article, the author discusses the creation of an electronic index of scholarly Slavic periodicals in the humanities, which will launch in early 2012. The aim of this project is to create a standard electronic reference tool in the field of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Studies, which will help professors, students, and researchers. The index contains important scholarly journals from Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine. Indexing begins with 1994 issues and is ongoing. In the future, significant retrospective journals will be indexed in order to improve the tool's research capabilities. The index contains not only articles, but also all book reviews and information on conferences, workshops, organizations, and foundations. The index currently contains citations of over 125,000 articles from more than 143 Slavic journals in the humanities. The use of the Library of Congress transliteration scheme and subject headings will assist users to perform effective searches.