Prof. Richard Danner of Duke Law School is giving a truly inspiring lecture today at Harvard about libraries and legal information. He has grounded his talk in a lecture by Morris Cohen, a former Harvard Law School library director and professor (later, he had both jobs at Yale as well), about the “multiplicity” of legal … Read more
For Christmas, my good friend and mentor John DeVillars gave me a copy of “The Man Who Loved Books Too Much” by Allison Hoover Bartlett. (There were several messages embedded in the giving of this gift, I’m clear on that much.) I’ve been eager to read it, but it was fairly far down on the … Read more
Anne Klinefelter, the beloved law library director at UNC-Chapel Hill (you should hear her dean introduce her; really!), is hosting a Data Privacy Day event on reader privacy. She makes the case in her opening panel remarks that, if we wish to translate library practices with respect to privacy into a digital world, we need … Read more
Over the past nine months or so, a group of us have worked on a Harvard-wide Task Force to consider our library systems. The report is being issued today by Harvard’s Provost, Steven E. Hyman, who chaired our Task Force. Over the next year-plus, we will be working to implement changes in five key areas … Read more
The Harvard Law School Library invites students to come visit today during this year’s “Love Your Library Fest.” In addition to everything you’ll learn about the HLS Library, come over for free movie tickets and a raffle to win an iPod Touch.
Over the past year, I’ve worked with my colleagues at the Harvard Law School Library, our Library Committee of faculty members, and many others to develop a new organizational design for the HLSL. It goes into effect today. The description of our new organizational form is posted to the Library’s blog, Et Seq. The future … Read more
One of the new efforts underway at the Harvard Law School Library is providing support for the growing number of faculty who perform empirical research. It’s something that a few other libraries have begun to do, and we think it’s a great idea. After a successful pilot this past year (where we were swamped with … Read more
I am delighted to point to a statement by a growing number of law school librarians calling for open access to legal scholarship.