Academic Freedom Issues for Academic Librarians

Professors Danner and Bintliff argue that understanding academic freedom and faculty tenure is important for academic librarians, both to provide better perspective on the concerns of faculty researchers and teachers, and to highlight matters of common concern to librarians and faculty. The authors discuss the basic tenets of academic freedom and tenure, then compare academic freedom with the intellectual freedom concerns of librarians. The article concludes by introducing several current issues of importance to librarians, faculty, and everyone concerned with academic freedom on university campuses

Open Law and Open Access

Presentation for the 2015 Open Access Symposium discussing open access to open law and the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act

Nowhere to Run; Nowhere to Hide: The Reality of Being a Law Library Director in Times of Great Opportunity and Significant Challenges

This is an edited version of remarks presented at \u27Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide\u27: The Reality of Being a Law Library Director in Times of Great Opportunity and Significant Challenges, January 5, 2015, at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C

Rebuilding the Profession: Recommendations for Librarians Interested in Becoming Academic Law Library Directors

Based on papers presented at a 2005 workshop for individuals interested in becoming academic law library directors, this article begins by exploring the duties of academic director jobs—administrative skills and faculty responsibilities—before examining how to build credentials in preparation for such jobs. It concludes by focusing on the skills and knowledge needed to interview for director jobs

Building and Maintaining Support for your Law Library

This session will address ways to increase awareness and support of the valuable work that library staff performs. Specific areas addressed include working with law school development directors to target potential donors and assist with fundraising and educating the law school community about work that goes on behind the scenes. Attendees will develop short “elevator pitches” designed to quickly inform stakeholders of important projects of the library

Building and Maintaining Support for your Law Library

This session will address ways to increase awareness and support of the valuable work that library staff performs. Specific areas addressed include working with law school development directors to target potential donors and assist with fundraising and educating the law school community about work that goes on behind the scenes. Attendees will develop short “elevator pitches” designed to quickly inform stakeholders of important projects of the library