AALS Committee on Libraries and Technology Program
San Diego Salon B, North Tower/Lobby Level, San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina
Roundtable Discussion: Using Libraries to Help Transform Legal Education
Law schools are continuing to examine their curricular offerings to ensure that they provide right mix of theoretical classes and skills training to their students. How can law libraries contribute to the development of the goals expressed in the Carnegie Report or, more generally, in curricular development? The Committee would like to open the discussion to the legal academy to gather a broader spectrum of viewpoints.
Toward that end, this program will examine two issues: (1) the desirability and likely effectiveness of building partnerships between academic law librarians and private law librarians designed to ease the transition for students from law school to practice, thereby transforming legal education (at least in relation to research); and, (2) are there other contributions that the library can make to curricular development?
The program's format is a roundtable discussion. Come and share ideas and debate about the possibilities of shifting roles and responsibilities of law librarians in your law school. In order to fully participate in this program, attendees are advised to read: William M. Sullivan et al., Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass (2007). Additional materials for review prior to discussion will be posted periodically on various listservs.
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