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• Joint winner for Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award 2014.
• Joint winner of Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award 2014

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This title is an invaluable addition to the literature on law librarianship. As a professor of library and information science, Law Librarianship in the Digital Age will be a timely resource for students studying the issues and field of law librarianship. This is a valuable textbook to introduce students to law libraries and legal information management issues. It gives a current analysis of the new information world and access to resources that users expect in their law library collections. The chapters provide an in-depth resource to the evolving challenges of the legal information profession including copyright, digital resources, databases, and the internet. -- Yvonne J. Chandler, Associate Professor and Director, Legal Information Program, University of North Texas College of Information This book covers the broad sweep of a law librarian's role in the 21st century, addressing everything from the basics of legal research to high level decision-making by law library directors. Anyone working, or aspiring to work in a law library will find it a valuable resource. -- David A. Hollander, Law and Legal Studies Librarian, Princeton University Library A must read for even the most experienced law librarians and a great addition to law librarianship literature. From open access to marketing, from tablets to competitive intelligence, there is something for everyone! Many of these chapters will make excellent reading for law librarianship courses and newly hired law librarians. Great job! -- Penny A. Hazelton, University of Washington Law Librarianship in the Digital Age is the messiah of legal reference sources that has been long awaited. As the Executive Director of the New York Law Institute such a resource serves as a rubric of tools and techniques for managing a law library in the ever-expanding digital environment and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at St John's University Division of Library and Information Science it is a comprehensive manual for training students on how to manage a law library. Law Libraries and the Cloud to traditional Technical Services 2.0 , this resource encompasses the breath and depth of law library management. -- Ralph Monaco, executive director, The New York Law Institute

This title is an invaluable addition to the literature on law librarianship. As a professor of library and information science, Law Librarianship in the Digital Age will be a timely resource for students studying the issues and field of law librarianship. This is a valuable textbook to introduce students to law libraries and legal information management issues. It gives a current analysis of the new information world and access to resources that users expect in their law library collections. The chapters provide an in-depth resource to the evolving challenges of the legal information profession including copyright, digital resources, databases, and the internet. -- Yvonne J. Chandler, Associate Professor and Director, Legal Information Program, University of North Texas College of Information This book covers the broad sweep of a law librarian's role in the 21st century, addressing everything from the basics of legal research to high level decision-making by law library directors. Anyone working, or aspiring to work in a law library will find it a valuable resource. -- David A. Hollander, Law and Legal Studies Librarian, Princeton University Library A must read for even the most experienced law librarians and a great addition to law librarianship literature. From open access to marketing, from tablets to competitive intelligence, there is something for everyone! Many of these chapters will make excellent reading for law librarianship courses and newly hired law librarians. Great job! -- Penny A. Hazelton, University of Washington Law Librarianship in the Digital Age is the messiah of legal reference sources that has been long awaited. As the Executive Director of the New York Law Institute such a resource serves as a rubric of tools and techniques for managing a law library in the ever-expanding digital environment and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at St John's University Division of Library and Information Science it is a comprehensive manual for training students on how to manage a law library. Law Libraries and the Cloud to traditional Technical Services 2.0 , this resource encompasses the breath and depth of law library management. -- Ralph Monaco, executive director, The New York Law Institute Every law librarian, from the newest to the most senior, should read this book. The future of the profession is mapped out. The right people are writing about the right subject. Ignore it at your peril. -- Robert C. Berring, Jr., Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law, Berkeley Law I unequivocally endorse Law Librarianship in the Digital Age as it is an exceptional book that can be used as a textbook or supplementary text for an introductory Law Librarianship course. I would highly encourage students to make this book a permanent addition to their personal library. -- Renate Chancellor, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America, School of Library and Information Science Law Librarianship in the Digital Age pulls into one place introductory information on almost every topic about which a law firm librarian might be curious. ... I read through many other chapters in this book and found that the quality of editing throughout was superb, the bibliographies were thoughtfully constructed, the book was extremely timely, and the writing and organization were clear and helpful. The table of contents is thorough and serves as a handy checklist of our issues... Well-written and comprehensive in coverage, the book is engaging for both the merely curious and those in need of step-by-step instructions for implementing a change in their library's services or infrastructure. I highly recommend Law Librarianship in the Digital Age for any law librarian. American Association of Law Libraries Written by the director of information technology for the New York Law Institute and the esteemed editor of Neal-Schuman's Tech Set series, this book explores the issues that are most relevant to law librarians and that are at the forefront at law library conferences and events. The work is arranged into eight sections: Major Introductory Concepts (e.g., copyright in the digital age, law library management), Technologies (e.g., e-books in law libraries, the cloud), Reference Services (e.g., online information sources, major legal databases), Instruction (e.g., educational technologies), Technical Services (e.g., collection development, electronic resources management), Knowledge Management (e.g., the law library intranet), Marketing (e.g., digital age marketing, competitive intelligence), and Professional Development and the Future (e.g., associations and conferences, the future of law librarianship). Articles have been contributed by well-known law librarians from academic, government, and private law libraries. This book is a great overall handbook for anyone in the area of law librarianship. Its combination of scholarship and practical application make it a must-read for those in this industry. American Reference Books Annual

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Ellyssa Kroski is Director of Information Technology for the New York Law Institute, as well as a librarian, writer, educator, and international speaker. She is an adjunct faculty member at Pratt Institute and blogs at iLibrarian.

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