Reworking the Reading Room: An Analysis of Pandemic Responses in Special Collections Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University

This qualitative study was conducted to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on digital projects led by special collections libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. Specifically, this research utilized case studies to analyze the shift to digital resources following the closure of universities in the spring of 2020, and compared this data to the current operations of special collections libraries at both a public and private university.Master of Science in Library Scienc

Research Data and the Duke Digital Repository: Building a Service-Driven Data Curation Workflow

This year, Duke University Libraries launched the Duke Digital Repository (DDR), a service that supports the activities of the University\u27s faculty, researchers, students, and library staff by preserving, securing, and providing access to digital resources. The DDR is built on three program areas: research data, scholarly publications, and library collections. The research data area of the DDR reflects a new focus on research data management services at Duke, which includes preservation-level storage in the DDR, as well as consulting and instruction. The new program of services is supported by four new staff members (two research data management consultants and two digital repository content analysts), as well as a CLIR postdoctoral fellow. Along with two subject specialist librarians and the head of Data and Visualization Services, we form the Research Data Working Group at Duke Libraries, which provides policy, procedure, and technical recommendations on data curation and management issues related to the library’s repository program. We are currently piloting new services, policies, and workflows to promote data sharing and curation, quality metadata, and reproducible research, offering consultations and workshops in research data management best practices. This poster will report on the organizational structures, data sharing policies, metadata requirements, and workflows for data ingest that are currently in place

Advertising Icons: Preserving the Cultural Record of Brand Ambassadors

The authors discuss the background and implementation of the Brandcenter Advertising Icons image collection, available at https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/brandcenter_icons

International Legal Collections at U.S. Academic Law School Libraries

This study examines how law librarians are participating in the process of creating new fields of international legal research and training. It investigates the current state of international legal collections at twelve public and private U.S. academic law school libraries, illuminating in the process some of the significant shifts that characterize the nature of professional librarianship and information science in the twenty-first century. Included in the study is a discussion of the reference works, research guides, and databases that make up these international legal collections. This is followed by a brief assessment of the trends and challenges that librarians face who work in the field of professional legal education and scholarship

The Durham Statement on Open Access One Year Later: Preservation and Access to Legal Scholarship

The Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship calls for US law schools to stop publishing their journals in print format and to rely instead on electronic publication with a commitment to keep the electronic versions available in “stable, open, digital formats.” The Statement asks for two things: 1) open access publication of law school-published journals; and 2) an end to print publication of law journals. This paper was written as background for a July 2010 American Association of Law Libraries conference program on the preservation implications of the call to end print publication

The Durham Statement Two Years Later: Open Access in the Law School Journal Environment

The Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship, drafted by a group of academic law library directors, was promulgated in February 2009. It calls for two things: (1) open access publication of law school–published journals; and (2) an end to print publication of law journals, coupled with a commitment to keeping the electronic versions available in “stable, open, digital formats.” The two years since the Statement was issued have seen increased publication of law journals in openly available electronic formats, but little movement toward all-electronic publication. This article discusses the issues raised by the Durham Statement, the current state of law journal publishing, and directions forward

Google Library: Beyond Fair Use?

Last December Google announced the formation of partnerships with select major libraries to begin digitizing and storing the libraries\u27 collections online. Google aims to provide individuals with the ability to search the full text of these books from anywhere using the Google search engine. This project will greatly increase access to those works in the public domain, but what about the books still under copyright protection? This iBrief examines the copyright implications of this ambitious project and concludes that the project, as described, does infringe the rights of copyright holders. It further concludes that while such infringement is unlikely to be found to be a fair use, it may ultimately be in the copyright holders\u27 best interests to acquiesce to Google\u27s infringement

Supporting Scholarship: Thoughts on the Role of the Academic Law Librarian

Discussing the role of the law library in legal education is necessary and essential, both because of the demands libraries place on increasingly tight law school budgets and space, and the challenges that libraries face as the information they collect and organize has moved largely from print to digital formats. This paper explores the roles of academic law librarians in supporting faculty scholarship within the context of the forces affecting libraries, librarians, and legal education in the (still early) twenty-first century. Although it has been more than 30 years since the widespread adoption of the legal research databases in the 1970s, the legal information environment continues to be seen as changing and uncertain, roiled by such new developments as working paper services providing pre-publication looks at new articles, growing interest in blogs and other varieties of short form legal scholarship, and the potential for open access publishing to reduce or eliminate reliance on printed law journals. As these developments continue to affect the processes of legal research and scholarly communications in law, what implications do they have for the role of law librarians in those processes