Teaching Specialized Legal Research: Business Associations

Business associations are a complex substantive topic that can be included in an advanced legal research course that teaches students sophisticated research, writing, and citation skills. This article presents the basic substantive law regarding business associations necessary to deliver instruction about advanced legal research, writing, and citation. This article also offers a model syllabus with suggested sources and assignments for students. These research assignments require students to perform tasks such as citing primary and secondary sources, learning advanced research skills using loose-leaf materials, assimilating information from multiple sources into cogent narratives, locating information using various electronic resources, digests, and other secondary sources, and locating and using forms pertinent to business association agreements. This article also provides an instructor with twenty-five suggested sources to use in assigning materials to students. These sources consist of both print and electronic versions. They additionally consist of treatises, monographs, guides, model statutory materials, electronic databases, Web sites, form guides, casebooks, a digest, and a citation manual.     

Stuck Behind the Curve: How the Academic Law Library Can Help Students Who Struggle in Law School

This article examines how academic law libraries can assist law schools in meeting the needs of students who struggle in law school. This article will describe the types of programs currently available to help struggling students within law schools, including academic support programs, and offer suggestions to improve the delivery of services to this growing population.     

The Road Oft Traveled: Collection Analysis and Development in a Modern Academic Law Library

While law students and faculty are content to research solely online, the librarians at Stetson University College of Law's Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library are actively involving every library department to analyze and develop both the print and digital collection. This case study will analyze the print to digital shift in academic law libraries and its effect on collection development. It will then describe the process of collection management at the Hand Law Library and how the entire library team is used to determine what is required of the collection to best serve our students, faculty, and the public.     

数字化文献传播中的法律控制

本文通过对数字化文献的界定 ,分析了数字化文献在传播过程中涉及的侵权行为以及国内外对数字化文献传播中的法律控制现状和存在的问题 ,并对我国数字化文献方面的立法问题提出了一些建议。     

数字化文献传播中的法律控制

本文通过对数字化文献的界定,分析了数字化文献在传播过程中涉及的侵权行为以及国内外对数字化文献传播中的法律控制现状和存在的问题,并对我国数字化文献方面的立法问题提出了一些建议。     

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.     

大学生数字教材购买行为分析架构

提出探讨不同人口统计变量与学习生活型态之大学生,其数字教材购买行为之实证分析架构。拟透过对数字教材发展趋势和大学生购买行为分析架构的陈述,为相关学术研究提供一个思考方向。这项架构假定大学生对于数字教材的购买行为,将因不同人口统计变量与学习生活型态之差异而有所不同。     

Collaborating for Success: The Digital Library of the Caribbean

This article will provide a brief overview of the successes of the Digital Library of the Caribbean, an open access, multi-institutional, multilingual, inclusive, international digital library. It will discuss factors that support the sustainability of robust technical infrastructures, collaborative partnerships, shared governance, and shared interests in advancing Caribbean scholarly research. Partner relationships and shared governance are at the heart of the creativity and solutions which continue to grow the largest Caribbean content digital library in the world.     

Collision or Coexistence? Copyright Law in the Digital Environment

SUMMARY

Digital technology and global economic trends present fundamental challenges to copyright law in the twenty-first century. On a practical level, librarians need to understand the particulars of current laws in order to make responsible decisions and to utilize to the fullest extent the possibilities that copyright law affords them in their missions. This article will identify the major copyright issues associated with library digital activities, and will discuss copyright protection in the digital environment of material originating in the Slavic, East European, and Eurasian nations. It covers use of Slavic and East European material in the U.S. in various contexts, including Internet activity, preservation and replacement, interlibrary loan, electronic reserves, classroom and educational use, text encoding, digitization of print and microform materials, and creation of digital content and databases.     

Innovative Instructional Methods

SUMMARY

Academic law librarians must teach law students the legal-research skills they will need both now and in the future. Furthermore, legal-research instruction should be consistent with a variety of learning styles in order to help all students learn more effectively and efficiently. This article discusses methods and tools that can be used to engage different learning styles, extend the learning environment beyond the classroom without unduly burdening the professor or student, and help students transfer what they learn to future legal research situations.     

Academic Libraries as Digital Gateways: Linking Students to the Burgeoning Wealth of Open Online Collections

ABSTRACT

Digital collections of full-text e-books are proliferating on the Web and provide a wealth of open content for students. To examine whether academic libraries are providing a digital gateway to these resources, ten e-book titles from open digital collections were searched in the online catalogs and Web pages of ten academic libraries serving distance learners. Only three of the digital collection e-books were available from any of the library catalogs, and none were found on library Web pages. Availability of the ten e-book titles through Google and other digital discovery tools also had mixed results. Continued projects for improved delivery of open online content are necessary. In order to fulfill their role as digital gateways for their academic communities, libraries must pursue metadata standards to support cross-searching, collaborative projects, and development of e-resource search software, which integrates with the library catalog.     

The Well-Furnished Business Law Library

Most business law faculty agree that their students should be exposed to outside reading in order to broaden their understanding of course materials, better relate the law to practical business situations, and become aware of future trends in the legal environment. For these reasons, many business law teachers send their students to the library to research and write reports using various source materials, including cases outside the textbook, historical background material on the various areas of the law and current journals and newspaper articles. For those teaching at large universities with well-stocked libraries, the choices of research sources are many and varied. However, for those teaching at small universities or community colleges, the choices may be quite limited indeed. Often, at the smaller schools, business law teachers may be given a very limited budget and allowed to order only a few books a year. The question arises, then, for the business law teachers at smaller schools: "What are the most important research sources to have in their libraries?" If a priority list could be drawn up, those business law faculties would be able to use the little library money they do have in a more beneficial way. This article will discuss the library materials which business law teachers feel are necessary as resource tools, and the order of priority in which they should be acquired. The information supporting this article will be acquired by a survey of randomly selected teachers of business law in AACSB-accredited schools.     

Promoting digital citizenship in first-year students: Framing information literacy as a tool to help peers

This article explores the creation and implementation of a high-impact, hands-on assignment that both challenges and transforms students' perception of the power of information. The author created a web-based project in which students designed, organized, and promoted their own web portal for peers who were struggling with substance abuse addiction. In order to create buy-in from the students, the assignment's purpose centered on the concept of digital citizenship. The idea behind this concept is to encourage students to use information ethically and to help their fellow digital citizens find and use information ethically as well. In realizing the power of credible, useful information, the project aimed to encourage students to use this power to help their peers who may be struggling. Once the students demonstrated a firm understanding of information literacy, the assignment provided the challenge to put their abilities to practice in student-led small groups that were each in charge of a section of the website. The structure of the class mirrored a workplace environment where the teams set deadlines that were approved by group vote. In the end, each of the students had a hand in creating an open access website that included information that could help their peers in the “real world.”     

From Information Reserve to Media Literacy Learning Commons: Revisiting the 21st Century Library as the Home for Media Literacy Education

Media literacy, while growing considerably during the past three decades, remains on the margins of educational establishments in the United States. Its interdisciplinary nature and broad definition have caused some confusion as to how best it can be utilized in school systems. At the same time, the school library has had to reinvent itself rapidly for a digital media age. Reconceived as a “learning commons,” the school library of the twenty-first century is no longer seen as simply a repository for information, but as a center for knowledge. This article will outline a framework for the media literacy learning commons designed to help students navigate information in a digital age. The school library, repositioned in this way, can excel as a place where students are free to express, explore, and empower themselves to become more active and engaged participants in their daily lives.     

The Search for Analogous Legal Authority

Analogous legal authority-authority that is persuasive because of similarity in some important aspects but is not directly on point-is difficult for even the most seasoned researcher to locate. It is especially difficult to teach first year law students the importance of this kind of authority and a methodology which will assist them in locating it. The problem is compounded by the specific term requirements of full text computer assisted legal research. This article challenges legal research specialists to devise ways of teaching law students manual and computerized methods of locating analogous authority.     

大学生数字化阅读倾向的调查分析与对策研究

以数字化阅读的涵义与特征为出发点,深入调查分析了大学生数字化阅读的现状与倾向,指出了大学生数字化阅读倾向的形成原因及突出问题,进而提出了提高大学生数字化阅读质量的策略方法。     

科学大数据时代数字图书馆的新定位与新挑战——第十六届数字图书馆前沿问题高级研讨班综述

“第十六届数字图书馆前沿问题高级研讨班”于2019年10月在成都召开,研讨班的主题是“数据科学、数据管理与数据应用”,来自国内外80余家高校和科研机构的260余名图书馆员、科研人员及师生等,围绕国内外数字图书馆在科学数据管理与服务领域研究与服务实践的最新进展和前沿动态等展开了深入交流和讨论,展示了数字图书馆在开放科学和科学大数据时代的新定位、新使命和新发展。文章从开放科学背景下科学大数据领域的发展态势、数字图书馆在科学大数据领域的定位与挑战、新技术对图书馆业务体系的深刻变革和影响等三个方面,讨论和分析了数字图书馆的发展现状以及未来的发展情景,特别是指出了未来图书馆(文献情报机构)将成为以数据知识生态系统的管理和服务为核心的“集成化跨界知识管理与服务咨询机构”的大方向。     

Libraries and Faculty Collaboration: Four Digital Scholarship Examples

ABSTRACT

About twenty years ago, the Internet began to change the way people create, access, publish, and share information. The impact of this information revolution has been felt in every industry. For instance, the Internet has enabled new models in the publishing sector, which has subsequently impacted education and changed the landscape of teaching and learning. About a decade ago, the introduction of new buzzwords such as open access, electronic publishing, digital humanities, and digital scholarship continued to challenge the scholarly production and dissemination of knowledge. Undoubtedly, these changes also created new opportunities for collaboration among multidisciplinary groups including researchers, scholars, students, technologists, librarians, and others. In this article, the author discusses four successful faculty-driven digital scholarship projects that his library system has supported in the last two years. His team's work serves as an example of how academic libraries and centers for digital scholarship at undergraduate institutions can support digital humanities and digital scholarship initiatives. Additionally, the case examples can contribute to the ongoing discussion of new roles for librarians and technologists in working with scholars and students to gain the skills necessary to implement digital scholarship projects.     

图书馆数字化建设的著作权管理方案

论述我国图书馆数字化建设过程中存在的著作权问题和解决这一问题的重要意义。指出可通过以下途径解决著作权问题,包括:利用合理使用和有效利用法定许可制度与著作权集体管理组织签订著作权许可使用合同;与编辑出版者签订著作权许可使用合同;直接由著作权人授权;通过各类学会、协会等行业团体出面组织、代理有关著作权事宜等。